During the winter of 1978-79, My family and I heard strange howls/screams around our rural home during the hours of 11:30 PM – 1:30 AM. During this time several drain pipes around our home were knocked down and what ever did this left many large, human-like footprints. These prints were seen by myself, brother, Mother and Father. My father, after the screaming ended, went outside and destroyed the prints. To this day, we believe that this was to keep us from being frightened. At this time I had read several books on the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery and was familiar with the creature. My mother, to this day will not talk about the incident. I strongly believe that this was a Sasquatch passing through our area. These sounds continued for several days and then stopped.

I live in a place that would not even be considered a dot on a map except for the fact that we have a State Forest there. Cabwaylingo, which stands for all the counties surrounding it, Cabell, Wayne, Lincoln, and Mingo, is a rather secluded park, full of wildlife.

I was bringing my daughter home from a dental appointment when we saw it. I was driving my mother’s van, which sits kind of high off the ground, and had the headlights on since it was just a little past dusk. The first glimpse was of something walking, in a lumbering sort of fashion, on the side of the road next to the passenger’s side of the van. It was a tan color, and walked on two feet just like a human does. Its movements were slow and heavy and it had to have stood a good 6 ft. tall or more. I could see that it was covered with hair, but its body resembled a human being more than an animal. My father seemed to think it was a bear walking on its hind feet. I can assure you, this was no bear! When the van got close to being beside the creature, it went over the edge of the bank off the road. I was somewhat amazed at what I saw, but it all happened so quickly that I wondered if perhaps I was seeing things. Apparently, my daughter, who by the way was sixteen at the time, must have been wondering the same thing, because at the exact same time we turned to each other and said, “Did you see that?” After I knew that she had seen it too, I turned around in a wide spot off the road and went back to see if I could spot it with my headlights. Whatever it was, it was already gone. Where it went over the bank, it could have and most likely did go across a very small branch and into a hollow on the other side.

I am not sure what this was, all I know is that it was not human, yet it was not like any animal I have ever seen before! I never really believed in Big Foot, and I am not very sure I do now. The one thing I absolutely do believe is that if you ever run into this thing, you will not soon forget it!

This incident occurred just north of the town of Fort Gay, on top of a wooded hill approximately 1/4 mile north on Hewlett Branch Rd. from where it connects with the Big Sandy River Rd. about 4 miles west of Rt. 152 (better known as the Tolsia Highway). There is a clearing just above an old cemetery that lies at the top of the first hill on Hewlett Branch Rd. Both Hewlett Branch and Big Sandy River Rd. are dirt roads. The area is very rural.

Myself and four others had driven to this spot just after 9pm (roughly) to hang. We had just arrived and everyone had gotten out of the car, it was a clear night and a little cool. The car was parked about ten yards in front of a barbed wire fence and about ten yards beyond the fence the hill sloped off steeply and was covered in thick brush. One of the girls had perched herself on top of the car hood and she and I were talking while the others were goofing around near the rear of the car. All of a sudden we heard the dogs over in the hollow below the hill begin to bark like crazy then, just as suddenly they stopped cold.

The girl and I remarked to each other how strange it seemed. About one minute after the barking stopped we heard something moving through the brush just over the hill. I stepped forward to the fence and was able to make out the shadow of what I thought was the owner of the barn (that was where the dogs were at – down in the hollow) coming up to tell us to leave. I called out to the figure and it was about then that “it” stood up at the edge of the hill and huffed and grunted! This thing stood about seven feet tall and it looked like a pro basketball player that was covered in a dark brown fur, I couldn’t make out it’s facial features.

The girl was already screaming and in the car and my other friends were piling in too when I made it to the drivers seat. I started the car and turned on the lights and when I did this “thing” covered it’s face, as if to shield it’s eyes from the car lights and quickly hurried behind some trees and thick brush. I still didn’t get a look at its face as I was working feverishly to get the car in gear! Needless to say we got the hell out of there! When we got back to town nobody said anything for the longest time. Later we discussed it a bit but not in much detail. I don’t know why the five of us never really talked about it.

I would also like to add something that has been stuck in my memory for several years. From about the time that I was fourteen in 1979 till my first year of college, in 1983, we used to hear these long, mournful, howling noises coming from the woods on the hill that faced our house. These always seemed to take place in the early fall, during the high school football season. I remember it this way because my father, brother and I would sit on the front porch after returning from games sometimes and try to figure out what was making these howling noises. We never did. Then I heard those same noises on a Bigfoot special that A&E aired a few months ago. They are the same long, mournful sounds I heard on one of the Moneymaker sights I came across. I have no doubt about what made those sounds now. I also know of other families in that area that have heard those sounds. One fellow who heard them was spooked so much that he ordered his family in the house and sat on his porch with a rifle for the next three days, he never saw anything.

These sightings occurred in a very rural, densely forested area of Wayne County WV, in the ares north and east of the town of Fort Gay. I have been told that the area of the first sighting was at one time considered sacred by indigenous Indian tribes.

I was traveling early one morning in January, in snowy conditions, when I spotted a large, upright, dark-colored creature just off Rt.55. Very tall, fuzzy looking, with primate features, similar to an ape. The creature stepped into the road, causing me to swerve to avoid colliding with the beast.

Years ago, I can remember a family living close to the entrance to the hollow. The teenage boy swore he saw Bigfoot in the hollow. Needles to say no one believed him. When the incident started be told, one person said that there where guys from Rivesville that ride their 4 Wheelers in the hollow a lot and one of them said he saw Bigfoot once. Yet again no one believed him, just as no one is believing my family.

For several years now the only ones that go back into that area are ones who have horses and 4 Wheelers or dirt bikes. The roads are so bad that I don’t think you would be able to get anything back there other than that.

My older brother and his son decided to try and get a picture of this creature. They took their 4 wheeler back to the second field that is just behind the one it has been seen in. The waited for it to walk in. After some time of sitting they started to smell a horrible stench. My brother stood up to look in the woods behind them and he saw the creature squatting down behind a tree. My brother then moved to get a better look at it when it stood up and left. He then went to look for it and saw it foot imprint on some leaves on the ground, he said they weren’t very good but he could see that its foot prints where about 5 feet apart.

My older brother, his wife and 6 year old son were riding on their 4 wheeler back in old 93 hollow. It was between 7:00pm – 8:00pm when they saw what they thought to be a black bear walking on its hind legs. They stopped the 4 wheeler and turned off the engine to watch it. When they did this the creature also stopped and was watching them. My brother and His wife saw the creature and they looked at each other over a distance of around 200 feet for about 2 minutes. My sister-in-law described it to me this way. When it turned to face us, I could see through its legs. Its legs were not touching together. Its arms hung down its side just above its knees, and its shoulder and mid drift were real broad. It had fur from head to toe. Two minutes later the creature took off into a stride across the field with its arms swinging at its side and a slight bend to its form. At the end of the field it turned and went into the woods. At that distance they could see it as it walked through the woods. They figured it to be about 8 – 9 feet tall. They said it could not have been a bear walking on its hind legs covering the distance it covered in the short time it covered it. They watched it enter into the woods and then went home. When they got home their son, scared from what he had just seen, started crying. He swore to his mom he was never going to ride his bike or motor bike in that hollow ever again.

The next day my brother took my younger brother and my uncle back in the hollow with him to see if they could find any tracks this creature had made. They searched but did not find any, it was over grass and it rained most of the night. So my older brother gave up and went home leaving my younger brother and my uncle in the hollow. Shortly after my younger brother and uncle saw the creature. They were in the same location as my other brother was the night before. They watched it come out of the wooded area about 400 yards below them and cross the road. It went down the a hill into a valley where they couldn’t see it. Then suddenly it came up on the other side of the hill and walked along side the edge of the field and entered the wooded area where it did (or another) the night before. My brother got to see it through his binocular and said it looked like a pro basket ball player but much more muscular with fur from head to toe. He said all he could see was its back side and it wasn’t anything he had ever seen before. My brother also said he yelled at it but it didn’t faze the creature at all.

Two days later, in the morning my older brother and his wife went to the same area to go mushroom hunting. They were in the power lines when they heard a loud knocking on one side in the woods, like someone hitting something on a tree. Across on the other side, where one old dilapidated house was, they heard something screaming. My brother described it as a high pitch hunting dog scream. They said this went on continuously. My brother started to walk down toward the house to see what it was. The closer he got the more it spooked him, so he went back and got on his 4 wheeler leaving his wife on top of the power lines. His wife said when he started up his 4 wheeler and headed down the road toward the house the knocking got louder and the screaming got louder and more intense. She said the one that was in the woods knocking started crashing through the woods in the direction that she was in, then stopped when it heard the 4 wheeler turning back. My brother, who turned around because the screaming was so loud he heard it over his loud 4 wheeler, then got his wife and left the area shaken up a little. They didn’t think the creature would be there in the morning, they thought they slept during the day or something.

They and other people have gone back to the same area in the two days since the last encounter and nothing was found or heard.

In the early morning hours of December 1st, 1997, I was hunting with my son when I heard some weird sounds coming from a nearby gully. The sounds observed were similar to that of a woman screaming, followed by a strange sort of chatter, as if someone were playing a recording of a human-like conversation backwards.

The environment is very wooded, and follows along the Middle Fork River. The point of observation was near the boundary of the Cranberry Wildlife Preserve.

I have been to the area several times before. I’ve witnessed black bear, deer, bobcat, grouse, you name it, but I’ve never heard such a spine-tingling sound such as I heard that morning. And no I’ve NOT returned!

Three friends and I were out running around one evening and decided to go down to Star Hollow near Kingston and park. We were listening to some music and singing along. Two of my friends were sitting on the trunk, one was in the car adjusting the radio, and I was standing at the rear of the car. I guess my eyes got great big when I saw “it” because my friends instantly turned to see what I saw. Right above the road no more than 300 feet away was a big brown, long haired creature walking up the side of the hill. We watched in stunned silence as “it” climbed a small rocky area and disappeared over the edge of the hill.

Hello, My name is Dwayne. I am 31, married, father of two and probably the most skeptical person around. I can usually find some reasonable explanation for ghosts, UFO’s etc.., but I heard something when I was thirteen that scared me more than anything ever had before or since. I am an avid hunter and growing up in rural WV have spent the majority of my time in and around the woods. Basically, I am no stranger to animal sounds.

Anyway one night me and a friend went to an area lake at night to fish, we did this quite often in the summertime. We had been there for about 30 minutes when up behind us in the woods we started hearing what sounded like voices about 40 yards up. The first thought was, “there’s some guys in the woods talking loudly and kinda whooping it up”, which would have been unusual in the first place. I kept trying to make out what they were saying, but could not. I could never explain this to anyone until I read a submission I had stumbled across while surfing. The person had written he had heard what sounded like “people talking backwards?”, it hit me then that was EXACTLY what it sounded like.

As I was listening I assumed that it must be people in the woods, but they must be further away than I thought since I cant make out what they are saying, it sounded like people talking loudly only I could not make out words. While listening to this all of the sudden there was a hair raising, blood-curdling SCREAM from just up the hill behind us. I cannot possibly explain how frightening this sound was other than to say my body went limp with fear it felt like my legs were jelly. I looked at my buddy who looked as scared as I felt and asked him “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT”?? He said I don’t know, lets go. We left in an extreme hurry to say the least.

I have told this story to many people over the years and have always said that it must have been a screech owl, panther etc.. although I have never believed it to be any of these. I had never considered the possibility of a Bigfoot until reading other peoples stories about hearing that scream and how terrified they were by it did I think that could have been.

I had always thought my story was just not that “exciting”, until I read other stories where people had not seen anything only heard that scream did I think ok maybe I’m not nuts.

I have listened to the recordings that people have made, and believe me the scream that I heard was not that sound, it was intense!!!

Just reading stories from other people 18 years later still gives me chills.

My mothers family had an encounter years earlier with something that came around their house many years ago grunting and screaming, they had always referred to it as the “red eyed monster”. I had always thought yeah probably some kind of animal. Until my encounter, then needless to say I have a different perspective on those stories.

One day during Buck season in 1995, I was hunting with my cousin just outside of the small town of Valley Head, WV. It was around noon and we decided to split up and go opposite ways. We both pretty much knew our way around the area where as a lot of people get lost and come all the way from Snowshoe mountain. Well, I was minding my business and walking out this old logging trail trying to be as quiet as possible. Then I heard this loud, unexplainable noise, sort of like a grunt. It was nothing like a snort of a Buck.

I just happened to turn and look down hill and saw this thing. I couldn’t really get a good look because it was so far down the hill but there was snow so I could see some of it. It was running at an unbelievable speed and it was only on two legs not four. I knew it wasn’t a deer because it was brown and it was not black either. Everyone in my family thinks that I am totally nuts but I know what I saw and I think it was Big Foot. It did not take me long to get back to camp.

Large tracks spotted, too large to be human, estimated size: 20 in. foot size – occurred September 23, 1997 at 10:30 am – that night we heard loud, piercing screams in the forest and a strange odor- like a cross between a skunk and sweat – I activated my personal alarm, which apparently frightened the creature away – the next morning, we observed more tracks near our campsite- and some broken branches- needless to say I was a little frightened.

A unidentifiable creature meeting the description of bigfoot has been seen in Capels, West Virginia by several different sources. Many unidentifiable tracks can be found. Terrible screams have also been heard. Capels, is right outside of Welch, West Virginia, their are many places in the mountains that are rarely visited by Man.

When seen, the creature ran, every time. I hope someone will investigate this sighting. The internet is the only way I could think of to report this situation. I wish to remain anonymous so people will not think I am crazy.

The creature was spotted twice by a hunter while he was in the woods right before dusk. Once he was sitting in his truck, and once he was setting on his 4-wheeler. The vehicles were not running. His description was black, straight hair, walking on two legs, and at least 8 feet tall. Reddish eyes. He said it scared him so much that he started his engine, blew the horn, and got the hell out of there.

It took a year before he went back in the woods. He went back and found tracks on the mountain ridge. He spotted it last in August,1998. His brother came to him one day after hunting, and described the same thing, the previous hunter had not yet discussed the sighting with anyone. More information has surfaced since, a family had spotted something black, tall, walking on the mountain, during the winter while driving their car on the highway, this occurred ten years ago.

I am trying to investigate these sightings without getting my name involved. I don’t want to cause a circus in this small town. The people who reported the sightings are church going, Christan people, no drugs or alcohol was involved. I feel that the reports are very true. I have not seen this creature myself, but I do live in Capels. The neighborhood dogs go crazy sometimes, one night, after dark, I got out of my car in my driveway, something was on the mountainside screaming. This was not any thing human. The sound chilled me to the bones. This was before anyone had reported the sightings. I was trying to find out what was making that terrible scream.

I think it is very possible that we have a Bigfoot or a colony of Bigfoot in our mountains. There is an excellent source of food and water, for such a creature. We have deer, turkey, bear, etc. The hunters claim that the tracks found are definitely not bear tracks. One hunter said he tracked it to a cliff and found two prints at the bottom of the cliff and they disappeared, as if it had jumped up to the rocks above. The reason I am so concerned about this is because one hunter is my husband, and he is trying to find this during the day hours. I feel like this might be dangerous and I don’t want him to be hurt. He said he thinks it is as afraid of him as he is of it. He said when he saw this creature it was like looking at the devil, and I believe him. He always takes a friend with him when he goes in the woods. He said he will not go up there alone, again.