Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center

3051 BOY JOHN , TR 77 MAY 98 3
BF SEEN UNDER STREET LIGHT [Full Report]

673 CARROLL UNK UNK , 1972 TR77 0
36 IN TRACKS [Full Report]

3042 CARROLL UNK UNK , 1972 TR 77 MAY 98 2
36 IN TRACKS FOUND [Full Report]

676 CHESHIRE LADY POLICE SUMMER, 1977 TR77 0
TAN GRAY BF SEEN, GUNFIRE HEARD, BF BEING CHASED BY OFFICIALS [Full Report]

3047 CHESHIRE LADY UNK SUMMER, 1977 AFTERNOON TR 77 MAY 98 3
POLICE CHASE AND SHOOT AT TAN/GRAY BF, FLEES ACROSS RAILROAD TRACKS [Full Report]

675 CHESHIRE UNK John HORRIGAN , 1998 TR77 1
RED EYES, DOGS SPOOKED, FOUL ODOR [Full Report]

3046 CHESHIRE SMITH JOHN JAN, 1998 TR 77 MAY 98 3
RED EYES SEEN, DOGS UPSET, ODOR, FOOT-FALLS [Full Report]

680 GRAFTON YOUNG BOY UNK , MISG TR77 1
HAIRY CREATURE SEEN IN STREET LIGHT [Full Report]

460 HILLSBOROUGH Gerald St Louis and sons Alan PLACE MAY, 1977 10:30 PM “Bigfoot All Over The Country;” 1978; Marian T. Place 4
BF 8-9 ft tall;long hair, [Full Report]

677 HILLSBOROUGH Gerald St. Louis UNK MAY, 1977 TR77 2
8 FT BF SEEN, SHAKES CAR, TRACKS 17 IN [Full Report]

3048 Hillsborough Gerald St. Louis JOHN MAY, 1977 TR 77 MAY 98 3
8 FT BF AT FLEA MART, 17 IN TRACKS IN SNOW [Full Report]

899 MERRIMACK Walter Bower Sr., Scot French OCT, 1987 TR86 Concord Monitor 2
9 FT GRAYISH COLOR, 2 BF CROSS FIELD [Full Report]

3349 MERRIMACK Walter Bower Sr BFRO OCT, 1987 DAWN TR 86 APR 1999 Concord Monitor 3
9 FT GRAY BF IN FIELD, MAN WATCHED, [Full Report]

3350 MERRIMACK HUNTER BFRO OCT, 1987 TR 86 APR 1999 Concord Monitor 3
TWO BF SEEN [Full Report]

IBS Report #: 3051

Location: county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

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Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: New Caanon
Researcher: JOHN
Witness: BOY

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BF SEEN UNDER STREET LIGHT

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TR 77 MAY 98 A ten year old boy near New Caanon, NH, near the Canadian border, was setting out trash and saw a tall figure in the street light. Thinking it was the high school basketball center, he approached and saw a hairy creature.
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IBS Report #: 673

Location: CARROLL county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +043˚ 47' N
Longitude: 071˚ 24' W
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Year: 1972
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Data Source: TR77
Credibility: 0
Locality: Sandwich, NEAR MT. ISRAEL
Researcher: UNK
Witness: UNK

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 36 IN TRACKS

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NH CARROLL 1972 TR#77 In 1972, at Sandwich, NH, near Mt. Israel, prints 36” X 8” were found.
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IBS Report #: 3042

Location: CARROLL county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +043˚ 47' N
Longitude: 071˚ 24' W
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Year: 1972
Time:
Elevation: 791

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 2
Locality: Sandwich
Researcher: UNK
Witness: UNK

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 36 IN TRACKS FOUND

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TR 77 MAY 98 In 1972, at Sandwich, NH, near Mt. Israel, prints 36” X 8” were found.
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IBS Report #: 676

Location: CHESHIRE county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +042˚ 49' N
Longitude: 072˚ 10' W
Day: AFTERNOON
Month: SUMMER
Year: 1977
Time:
Elevation: 1009

Data Source: TR77
Credibility: 0
Locality: TROY
Researcher: POLICE
Witness: LADY

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: TAN GRAY BF SEEN, GUNFIRE HEARD, BF BEING CHASED BY OFFICIALS

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NH CHESHIRE 1977 TR#77 Also, he heard that in Troy, NH, 1977, on a summer afternoon, a lady heard a rap at her door. A wildlife official, a NH state policeman, and a local Troy officer, cautioned her to lock her doors and protect her children, as a wild animal was outside. Her windows were open in the rural area with a railroad track in back. She heard heavy footfalls along the RR tracks and saw a tan-gray torso run by. Hearing gunfire, she went out in time to see the officers and their dogs chasing a creature that jumped off the embankment and ran into the woods. The police later told her that was a stupid thing to do, and she shouldn’t tell anybody about it, as they wouldn’t believe her anyway.
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Precip: KEENE 3.1 2.5 3.2 3.4 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.4 3.0 3.7 3.2 40.0
Temp: KEENE 21.0 24.3 34.2 45.7 57.4 65.8 70.5 68.7 60.6 49.6 39.0 26.4 46.9
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Ecology: Missing

IBS Report #: 3047

Location: CHESHIRE county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +042˚ 49' N
Longitude: 072˚ 11' W
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Month: SUMMER
Year: 1977
Time: AFTERNOON
Elevation: 1014

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: TROY
Researcher: UNK
Witness: LADY

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: POLICE CHASE AND SHOOT AT TAN/GRAY BF, FLEES ACROSS RAILROAD TRACKS

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TR 77 MAY 98 Also, he heard that in Troy, NH, 1977, on a summer afternoon, a lady heard a rap at her door. A wildlife official, a NH state policeman, and a local Troy officer, cautioned her to lock her doors and protect her children, as a wild animal was outside. Her windows were open in the rural area with a railroad track in back. She heard heavy footfalls along the RR tracks and saw a tan-gray torso run by. Hearing gunfire, she went out in time to see the officers and their dogs chasing a creature that jumped off the embankment and ran into the woods. The police later told her that was a stupid thing to do, and she shouldn’t tell anybody about it, as they wouldn’t believe her anyway.
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IBS Sighting Report 675 is missing

IBS Report #: 3046

Location: CHESHIRE county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +042˚ 56' N
Longitude: 072˚ 16' W
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Month: JAN
Year: 1998
Time:
Elevation: 486

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: Mt. Madarock
Researcher: JOHN
Witness: SMITH

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: RED EYES SEEN, DOGS UPSET, ODOR, FOOT-FALLS

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TR 77 MAY 98 A phone report to John in Jan., 1998, tells of Mt. Madarock in SW New Hampshire near Keene. Smith tells of red eyes floating in the dark, dogs cowering at night, a foul lingering stench, and heavy foot-falls.
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Precip: KEENE 3.1 2.5 3.2 3.4 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.4 3.0 3.7 3.2 40.0
Temp: KEENE 21.0 24.3 34.2 45.7 57.4 65.8 70.5 68.7 60.6 49.6 39.0 26.4 46.9
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Ecology: Missing

IBS Report #: 680

Location: GRAFTON county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

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Longitude: 0
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Year: MISG
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Data Source: TR77
Credibility: 1
Locality: near New Cannan
Researcher: UNK
Witness: YOUNG BOY

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: HAIRY CREATURE SEEN IN STREET LIGHT

Sighting Text:
NH GRAFTON MISG TR#77 A ten year old boy near New Cannan, NH, near the Canadian border, was setting out trash and saw a tall figure in the street light. Thinking it was the high school basketball center, he approached and saw a hairy creature.
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IBS Report #: 460

Location: HILLSBOROUGH county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +042˚ 75' N
Longitude: 071˚ 57' W
Day: 7
Month: MAY
Year: 1977
Time: 10:30 PM
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Data Source: “Bigfoot All Over The Country;” 1978; Marian T. Place
Credibility: 4
Locality: Hollis
Researcher: PLACE
Witness: Gerald St Louis and sons Alan

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BF 8-9 ft tall;long hair,

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NH,Hillsborough,42,75,71,57,7,May,1977,10:30PM,e,Place78,4, Sighting,Hollis, BF 8-9 ft tall;long hair, NH; May 7; 1977; Flea market; Hollis; NH. Gerald St Louis and sons Alan 14; James 12; bedded down in family pickup. 10:30PM truck shaking and rocking. turned on lights and saw BF face to face; all hairy; 8-9 feet tall; long arms; long hair. It ran to fence 4.5 ft high and jumped over. They left. “Bigfoot All Over The Country;” 1978; Marian T. Place,
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Precip: MASSABESIC LAKE 3.0 2.4 2.9 3.0 3.5 3.3 3.9 3.4 3.2 3.2 4.0 3.3 39.2
Temp: MASSABESIC LAKE 20.7 23.5 33.4 44.6 55.8 64.9 70.0 68.2 60.1 49.5 39.4 26.4 46.4
Sun: Begin civil twilight 5:01 a.m. Sunrise 5:33 a.m. Sun transit 12:43 p.m. Sunset 7:53 p.m. End civil twilight 8:25 p.m. Moonrise 11:28 p.m. on preceding day Moon transit 4:28 a.m. Moonset 9:31 a.m. Moonrise 12:19 a.m. on following day Phase of the Moon on 7 May: waning gibbous with 77% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. Last quarter Moon on 10 May 1977 at 12:09 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time..
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Ecology: Missing

IBS Report #: 677

Location: HILLSBOROUGH county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +042˚ 44' N
Longitude: 071˚ 35' W
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Month: MAY
Year: 1977
Time:
Elevation: 415

Data Source: TR77
Credibility: 2
Locality: HOLLIS
Researcher: UNK
Witness: Gerald St. Louis

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 8 FT BF SEEN, SHAKES CAR, TRACKS 17 IN

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NH HILLSBOROUGH 1977 TR#77 A classic case tells of Gerald St. Louis in May, 1977, setting up early for a flea market. This was at Hollis, NH, just north of the Mass. state line. He opened the car door to relieve himself, and came face to face with an 8 foot creature, startled by the dome light coming on. He came face to face with the creature which ran into the woods. Tracks were found in the snow. 300 yards away, two other people, Stan Evans and Jeff Warren, had their car shaken up and down several times...they also saw a bear run into the woods. The tracks measured 17 in. by 7 inches.
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IBS Report #: 3048

Location: Hillsborough county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +042˚ 44' N
Longitude: 071˚ 35' W
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Month: MAY
Year: 1977
Time:
Elevation: 404

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: HOLLIS
Researcher: JOHN
Witness: Gerald St. Louis

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 8 FT BF AT FLEA MART, 17 IN TRACKS IN SNOW

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TR 77 MAY 98 A classic case tells of Gerald St. Louis in May, 1977, setting up early for a flea market. This was at Hollis, NH, just north of the Mass. state line. He opened the car door to relieve himself, and came face to face with an 8 foot creature, startled by the dome light coming on. He came face to face with the creature which ran into the woods. Tracks were found in the snow. 300 yards away, two other people, Stan Evans and Jeff Warren, had their car shaken up and down several times...they also saw a bear run into the woods. The tracks measured 17 in. by 7 inches.
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IBS Report #: 899

Location: MERRIMACK county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +043˚ 22' N
Longitude: 071˚ 43' W
Day: 22
Month: OCT
Year: 1987
Time: SUNUP
Elevation: 819

Data Source: TR86 Concord Monitor
Credibility: 2
Locality: Salisbury, NEXT TO MILL BROOK
Researcher: Scot French
Witness: Walter Bower Sr.,

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 9 FT GRAYISH COLOR, 2 BF CROSS FIELD

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NH MERRIMACK 1987 TR#86 43 22N 71 43W ELV 819 FT * Old NH newspaper article submitted: Concord Monitor Friday November 13, 1987 The Man Who Spied Bigfoot Comes Forward by: Scot French. “Walter Bower Sr., a man of sound mind and sober spirit, swears he saw Bigfoot while hunting pheasant in Salisbury three weeks ago. He told the chief of police, who told the boys at the Crossroads Country Store, who laughed their fool heads off. “Now, ask yourself this. Why would Bowers, a retired caretaker at the New Hampshire Veterans Home, make up such a story? Why would he subject himself to such ridicule? "I don't like to be made a fool of, he said. "But I know what I saw." Bowers stepped forward after reading about the uproar his story had created in Salisbury. He agreed to take me out to the field where he saw whatever he saw. Maybe we could find some tracks in the snow. "It don't bother me any to go out with you," he said, " but I'm not going to go unarmed. Not after I see what that thing is." He grabbed me at his trailer on Pheasant Street in Webster with a .357-Magnum strapped to his hip. "I'm not gonna’ shoot it," he said, "but I'm not gonna’ let it get a’hold of me either." Snow squalls darkened the sky as we scrunched into my car and headed for Salisbury, talking all the way. Bower, 53, is a lifelong resident of Webster. He started hunting when he was old enough to carry a gun. Now retired, he likes to hunt pheasant in a field known as Bob's Big Interval, next to Mill Brook in Salisbury. “About three weeks ago, a hunter from Warner told Bowers he had seen two strange beasts walk across the field early one morning. "I didn't pay much attention," Bowers said. "I just went out bird hunting, two days, three days afterward." As he crossed the field with his .12-gauge shotgun shortly after daybreak, he had a strange feeling he was being watched. He passed between two stands of trees, turned to the right, "and there he was. Standing right out in the middle of the field." Bigfoot, Sasquatch. Whatever you want to call it. "This thing was BIG," he said. "I would say at least 9 feet. Maybe less, maybe more, because I didn't stick around too long to do any measuring...The whole body was covered with hair...I would day it was kind of a grayish color, from where I was standing. Of course the sun was coming up facing me, but it wasn't that bright... The face, I couldn't make that out too good...The hands were like yours or mine, only three times bigger, with pads on the front paws, like a dog...Long legs, long arms. It was just like, I would say, like a gorilla, but this here wasn't a gorilla... I'm telln' ya, it would make your hair stand up." After a few moments, the creature ran off toward the large swamp behind the field. Bowers hustled back to his car, glancing over his shoulder to make sure he was alone. A few nights later, he told Salisbury Police Chief Jody Heath, a family friend, what he had seen and asked if he could shoot the beast if it attacked him. Heath, biting his lip, promised to find out. "He sounded like everybody else," Bowers said. "I don’t think he really believed me." Bowers tried the game warden next. "He just laughed at me. He said 'There's no such thing.' I said 'Nuts.' He said, 'It was probably a bear or moose.' I said, 'Look, I can tell the difference between a bear and I can tell the difference between a moose. This was neither.' He didn't believe me. He got mad and hung up." Bowers has shot four bears in his lifetime, so he knows what they look like. As for moose, has anyone ever seen one standing on its hind legs and walk like a man? "If a man can't tell the difference between a moose and a thing like that," Bowers said, "he hadn't ought to be hunting whatsoever, in my book. He hadn't ought to be in the woods hunting if he can't tell the difference." Hundreds of people have reported seeing half-human creatures like Bigfoot, usually in the vast forests of the Pacific Northwest and Asia, but nobody has ever caught or photographed one clearly. Bowers figures creatures like the one he saw live and die in swamp caves, where no man can find them. They probably some out in the morning to look for apples, corn or whatever it is they eat. "I think there's more people that see these that are not saying anything 'cause they don't want to be laughed at," he said. One of these days, he may use his camera and stake out the area using apples for bait. A clear photo of the animal or its tracks might convince the skeptics. Until then he figures people can have a good laugh at his expense. "Go ahead," he said, shaking his head, "but it's not gonna change a thing, 'cause I still see what I see."
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IBS Report #: 3349

Location: MERRIMACK county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +043˚ 22' N
Longitude: 071˚ 43' W
Day:
Month: OCT
Year: 1987
Time: DAWN
Elevation: 817

Data Source: TR 86 APR 1999 Concord Monitor
Credibility: 3
Locality: Salisbury, next to Mill Brook
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: Walter Bower Sr

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 9 FT GRAY BF IN FIELD, MAN WATCHED,

Sighting Text:
TR 86 APR 1999 * Old NH newspaper article submitted: Concord Monitor Friday November 13, 1987 The Man Who Spied Bigfoot Comes Forward by: Scot French. “Walter Bower Sr., a man of sound mind and sober spirit, swears he saw Bigfoot while hunting pheasant in Salisbury three weeks ago. He told the chief of police, who told the boys at the Crossroads Country Store, who laughed their fool heads off. “Now, ask yourself this. Why would Bowers, a retired caretaker at the New Hampshire Veterans Home, make up such a story? Why would he subject himself to such ridicule? "I don't like to be made a fool of, he said. "But I know what I saw." Bowrs stepped forward after reading about the uproar his story had created in Salisbury. He agreed to take me out to the field where he saw whatever he saw. Maybe we could find some tracks in the snow. "It don't bother me any to go out with you," he said, " but I'm not going to go unarmed. Not after I see what that thing is." He grabbed me at his trailer on Pheasant Street in Webster with a .357-Magnum strapped to his hip. "I'm not gonna’ shoot it," he said, "but I'm not gonna’ let it get a’hold of me either." Snow squalls darkened the sky as we scrunched into my car and headed for Salisbury, talking all the way. Bower, 53, is a lifelong resident of Webster. He started hunting when he was old enough to carry a gun. Now retired, he likes to hunt pheasant in a field known as Bob's Big Interval, next to Mill Brook in Salisbury. “About three weeks ago, a hunter from Warner told Bowers he had seen two strange beasts walk across the field early one morning. "I didn't pay much attention," Bowers said. "I just went out bird hunting, two days, three days afterward." As he crossed the field with his .12-gauge shotgun shortly after daybreak, he had a strange feeling he was being watched. He passed between two stands of trees, turned to the right, "and there he was. Standing right out in the middle of the field." Bigfoot, Sasquatch. Whatever you want to call it. "This thing was BIG," he said. "I would say at least 9 feet. Maybe less, maybe more, because I didn't stick around too long to do any measuring...The whole body was covered with hair...I would say it was kind of a grayish color, from where I was standing. Of course the sun was coming up facing me, but it wasn't that bright... The face, I couldn't make that out too good...The hands were like yours or mine, only three times bigger, with pads on the front paws, like a dog...Long legs, long arms. It was just like, I would say, like a gorilla, but this here wasn't a gorilla... I'm telln' ya, it would make your hair stand up." After a few moments, the creature ran off toward the large swamp behind the field. Bowers hustled back to his car, glancing over his shoulder to make sure he was alone. A few nights later, he told Salisbury Police Chief Jody Heath, a family friend, what he had seen and asked if he could shoot the beast if it attacked him. Heath, biting his lip, promised to find out. "He sounded like everybody else," Bowers said. "I don’t think he really believed me." Bowers tried the game warden next. "He just laughed at me. He said 'There's no such thing.' I said 'Nuts.' He said, 'It was probably a bear or moose.' I said, 'Look, I can tell the difference between a bear and I can tell the difference between a moose. This was neither.' He didn't believe me. He got mad and hung up." Bowers has shot four bears in his lifetime, so he knows what they look like. As for moose, has anyone ever seen one standing on its hind legs and walk like a man? "If a man can't tell the difference between a moose and a thing like that," Bowers said, "he hadn't ought to be hunting whatsoever, in my book. He hadn't ought to be in the woods hunting if he can't tell the difference." Hundreds of people have reported seeing half-human creatures like Bigfoot, usually in the vast forests of the Pacific Northwest and Asia, but nobody has ever caught or photographed one clearly. Bowers figures creatures like the one he saw live and die in swamp caves, where no man can find them. They probably some out in the morning to look for apples, corn or whatever it is they eat. "I think there's more people that see these that are not saying anything 'cause they don't want to be laughed at," he said. One of these days, he may use his camera and stake out the area using apples for bait. A clear photo of the animal or its tracks might convince the skeptics. Until then he figures people can have a good laugh at his expense. "Go ahead," he said, shaking his head, "but it's not gonna change a thing, 'cause I still see what I see."
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IBS Report #: 3350

Location: MERRIMACK county, NH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +043˚ 22' N
Longitude: 071˚ 43' W
Day:
Month: OCT
Year: 1987
Time:
Elevation: 817

Data Source: TR 86 APR 1999 Concord Monitor
Credibility: 3
Locality: SALISBURY
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: HUNTER

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: TWO BF SEEN

Sighting Text:
TR 86 APR 1999 * Old NH newspaper article submitted: Concord Monitor Friday November 13, 1987 The Man Who Spied Bigfoot Comes Forward by: Scot French. “About three weeks ago, a hunter from Warner told Bowers he had seen two strange beasts walk across the field early one morning.
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