New Jersey Bigfoot Sightings

Bigfoot is one of the most enduring mysteries of the unexplained. Witness reports posted to the NJBFRC detail encounters with large, hairy monsters in the wilderness of Northern New Jersey and areas south, even near the Jersey Shore!

Bigfoot has been seen in West Milford, Sussex, High Point, Wantage, Walpack, Landing, Stillwater, New Gretna, Beemerville, Hillborough, Marlboro, Bear Swamp, the Pine Barrens and other locations around New Jersey.

Month Year Type of Sighting County Town Unkn 1994 Close Range Atlantic Estelle Manor Details Sep 1966 Medium Range Atlantic Lower Bank Details Mar 1975 Close Range Atlantic Unknown Details Unkn 1975 Medium Range Bergen Rutherford Details Feb 1975 Medium Range Burlington Bear Swamp Details Unkn 1970 Close Range Burlington Medford Lakes Details Aug 1990 Close Range Burlington New Gretna Details May 2009 footprints burlington new gretna Details Aug 2010 Medium Range, within 50 yards Camden Erial Details Oct 1938 Medium Range Cape May no entry Details Oct 2007 Close Range Cape May/Cumberland Head Of The River Details Oct 1976 Medium Range Cumberland Millville Details Jul 1972 Medium Range Cumberland Vineland Details Apr 2006 Medium Range essex livingston Details Jun 1970 Close Range, within 10 yards Great Gorge Great Gorge Details Jan 2008 footprints middlesex cliffwood beach Details Jul 2000 Sounds heard Middlesex Cranbury Details Mar 2006 Close Range monmouth Atlantic Highlands Details Mar 2008 Close Range Monmouth Howell Details Oct 2002 Close Range Monmouth Marlboro Details Jul 2005 Sounds heard monmouth marlboro Details Oct 1973 Medium Range Monmouth Middletown Details Jan 1894 Medium Range Morris Dover Details May 1974 Medium Range Morris Hopatcong Details Jan c1970 Sounds heard Morris Landing Details Oct 2009 Medium Range Morris Meyersville Details Jan 1965 Medium Range Morris Morristown Details May 1966 Medium Range Morris Morristown Details May unknown Sounds heard Morris Port Morris Details Apr 2005 Medium Range Morris Riverdale Details Apr 2003 Distant Morris Rockaway Details Aug 2006 Medium Range morris Rockaway Details Aug 1976 Medium Range Morris White Meadow Lake Details Jul 1976 Medium Range Morris White Meadow Lake Details Unkn 1976 Medium Range Morris White Meadow Lake Details Jul 1983 Close Range Ocean Jackson Details Mar 2007 Sounds heard Ocean Manahawkin Details Mar 2009 Sounds heard Ocean Manahawkin Details Jun 2006 Close Range ocean manchester/stafford Details Dec 2008 Medium Range Ocean Wall Details Aug 1979 Sounds heard Passaic Bloomingdale Details Sep 1991 Sounds heard Passaic Bloomingdale Details Nov 1991 Sounds heard Passaic Bloomingdale Details Aug 1992 Medium Range Passaic Bloomingdale Details Dec 1987 footprints Passaic Haskell Details Nov 2004 Medium Range Passaic West Milford Details Nov 2006 Sounds heard Passaic West Milford / Bloomingdale Details Jan 1927 Close Range Salem Salem Details May 1999 Medium Range Salem/Gloucester Monroeville Details Unkn 1976 Medium Range Somerset Bernardsville Details Jul 1977 Close Range Somerset Bernardsville Details Jul 2006 Close Range Somerset Hillsborough Details Jul 2006 Medium Range Somerset Hillsborough Details May 2006 Sounds heard Sussex Andover/Hopatcong Details Apr 1993 Sounds heard Sussex Beemerville Details Jul 1977 Close Range Sussex Culver Lake Details Unkn 1975 Medium Range Sussex Hainesville Details Unkn 1975 Medium Range Sussex High Point Details Jul 1978 Distant Sussex Hopatcong Details May 2006 Medium Range Sussex Hopatcong Details Nov 2006 Medium Range sussex Montague Details Jun 1983 Sounds heard sussex new milford, NY Details Aug 1982 Medium Range Sussex Newton Details Jun 1986 Medium Range Sussex stillwater Details Dec 2005 Medium Range Sussex Stockholm Details Oct 1985 Close Range Sussex Sussex Details May 1998 Sounds heard Sussex Sussex Details Oct 1982 I didn't see anything Sussex Sussex? Details Aug 2007 Close Range Sussex Unknown Details Oct 2006 Close Range sussex walpack Details May 1977 Medium Range Sussex Wantage Details Jun 1999 Sounds heard Sussex Wantage Details Aug 2010 Medium Range, within 50 yards Unknown Hoptatcong Details May 2010 Distant, over 100 yards away Unknown Long Beach Island Details Jan 1950 Close Range Unknown Pine Barrens Details Apr unknown Close Range, within 10 yards Unknown Unknown Details Total number of sighting reports found: 76