By VDC staff

During the early morning hours of July 5, a Rhode Island man spotted a large bipedal creature cross the street and enter the woods in nearby Connecticut, reports Patch and other media outlets, according to today’s Journal-Opinion. 

“Make no mistake. This was not a bear,” the man wrote in a report to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. “This was a cryptid.”

According to the BFRO, the forests in the Rhode Island-Connecticut border area are a hotbed of Bigfoot activity.

The Boston Globe reports there have been 126 credible Sasquatch sightings in New England since 1994. The BRFO reports 10 Vermont sightings between 1984 and 2019, although none since then. 

The most recent report, in Eden in August, 2019, is republished without edits or commentary from the BRFO:

I am 67, retired RN & former private pilot with excellent vision- 20/15, so I was not mistaken. It was not a bear. We have had a bear here by the deck, so I know what bears look like standing up to the reach feeder.

It was sunny day. My small Chihuahua mix was out front in her cage. She was barking so I walked out to front deck and looked towards dirt road where she was looking. We sit back approx.125ft from the road.

I saw a very black humanoid shape walking on two legs go past our driveway. It was half bent over then straightened up. It had longs arms swinging. The head was turned away & appeared to have very short neck & roundish head from that angle.

I said to myself, “That looks like a chimp!”. I watched for it for approx.12 seconds until it disappeared behind trees going east on road. There are spots that I can see thru the trees to the neighbors drive, so I was looking for it to either go up the drive or continue on road. When it did not, I walked out to end of drive, approx. 200 ft. ( w/ my air horn). There was nothing on the road for some distance.

Later in day I went out to that area with my small dog. She refused to even walk and was trembling. This is the same dog that almost went thru a screen door to attack the bear by our feeder a few weeks ago. I noticed an area of bent weeds that would have been where the creature had exited our woods, going into a small ditch then back up to get onto road before walking past our drive. On the roadside, in the direction I saw it going, there were 3 barefoot heel depressions w/ faint toe marks approx. 12 inches long. The area was dry with fine gravel so not a clear print.

The week before, I had heard twigs snapping & weeds moving behind my fenced garden. This approx. 40 ft from the front porch where I often sit. The dog barked. The noise stopped then started again, so I fired off my air horn which I always have near after an encouter with a large coy-wolf.

The cabin sits about 100ft above the N. Branch Lamoille River. There are many snowmobile & ATV trails plus the Long Trail is only 1/5 miles. It was very wooded and remote. A few homes and camps on our road.