YEAR: 2023 & 25

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: May

DATE: May 4, 2025

STATE: Idaho

COUNTY: Ada County

LOCATION DETAILS: Camp site: 43.713767, -116.152247

These campsite coordinates are accurate. However I want to make it clear that the other coordinates mentioned for the sound locations [see map and coordinates below] are approximate guesses as to where the sounds originated. Again just based off my experiences being a hunter and listening for things.

NEAREST TOWN: Boise

NEAREST ROAD: Bogus Basin Road

OBSERVED: I have two stories to tell. One from 2023, and the other from 2025. I understand this is meant to get to the point and be matter of fact, but I am violating this rule to consolidate the stories into one.

May 2023, Night Time

I and four other friends hiked the #78 Dry Creek trail approximately ten miles north of Boise Idaho. We took a trail that followed Dry Creek going north.

We hiked for approximately six miles and found a camping site one of the four of us has camped before. It was just off the trail and it was secluded. We camped for one night that year.

I went to bed with inadequate bedding and could not sleep all night however it allowed me to listen to these three "howls" in the valley. I cannot give you the time it took between all three howls. But I can tell you they sounded exactly like the "Ohio Howl" that was recorded by Matt Moneymaker. The only difference is the howl lasted a lot longer. I would say five seconds longer than the Moneymaker recording.

I hazard to guess each howl lasted about ten seconds. Each howl was in different positions of the valley we had passed through to get to the camp site. The top of my head was facing in a south-westward direction and two howls came from the same direction. The other from the south or south-south east. (Closer to south, but also pointing east ward by thirty degrees.)

Were I to approximate the distance of each howl, I would be incredibly inaccurate. I will, however, try my best to explain *where* I heard it from my position. It's the best guess I can give.

The first howl I would assume it to be four-hundred to five-hundred meters in a south west direction on top of the valley, (west of our path along Dry Creek), we passed through. After some time passed I heard the second howl about five-hundred meters on the opposite side of the valley, (east of our path along Dry Creek), again on top of the valley. The sound of both howls were different due to the different locations of each howl, but each howl had the same level of volume. The third and final howl was quieter, but all the more present. The howl sounded like it was bouncing over mountains to reach my ears. The howl was directly south-east.

There were no howls again that night. None of my other friends heard it. I was the only one.

May 4th, 2025, Night Time.

I and the same group of friends went out again to the same trail and same camping spot. I slept in a different spot, same camp site, my head pointing north-west this time. I didn't sleep any better, but I had warmer gear.

I do this thing called "blink sleeping" where you blink and you know a couple hours have gone by. More or less.

In and/or around the same area from the third howling noise, south-east, I heard tree knocking. I do not recall how many knocks that I heard exactly. I want to say that it was nine distinct and steady knocks so I am sticking with that number. They were precise like a metronome. Loud, yet distant. The knocks echoed against the valley. It was the only time I heard knocks that trip.

I've been a hunter since I was 16. I've heard elk from distances from 100 meters too 1500 meters away. I was able to use this experience to approximate where the noises came from.

At first glance you might wonder why a bigfoot would be down in the canyon this far below where it is solid forest cover all around. On closer view the camp site location is in a part of the canyon with dense forest on north facing slopes, but grassy terrain on south facing slopes. The attraction for being in this part of the canyon at this time of year: It is probably still much warmer down at this elevation and colder in the upper part of the Dry Creek basin. It follows that the bigfoots will move up slope into that upper basin when then temperatures get hot in the valley at height of summer.

OTHER WITNESSES: While I had four others with me I was the only one who was sleeping light enough to hear the sounds.

OTHER STORIES: I have not.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: Night time, no ambient light. Cold.

ENVIRONMENT: Pine forest with a creek near by. Not a lot of wildlife. Small birds and occasional squirrel noises. No artificial structures.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

I spoke with this witness, who will go by his initials J.VO.

He is a 27 year old Idaho resident who grew up in this part of the state and spent much time in the outdoors. He currently works for a large lawn care company in Boise. He is very credible and wanted to be as precise as possible about what he heard, and where they seemed to come from.

The potential for these auditory (sound) observations being misinterpretations diminishes sharply due to the combination of sounds (howls and knocks) on separate occasions.

The area where these sounds were heard is where Dry Creek crosses the county line between Ada County and Boise County.

Although Bogus Basin Road appears to be close by on the map, it might has well be many miles away. At closest that road iss a half mile up the flank of steep canyon slope. There is no way to go down into the Dry Creek drainage on foot or by vehicle from that ridge road, so it really doesn't matter how well used that road might be. It wouldn't matter if it a major interstate highway up on that ridge, because it is functionally remote from where these guys camped. The nearest connection is a very faint and very sketchy mountain bike path almost three miles down Dry Creek Trail.

At the time of this posting on BFRO it is very likely that there are still some bigfoots in this area. It is possible they can be heard in the wee hours of the morning from the ridge of Bogus Basin Road if there is no wind blowing on the ridge at night. There is usually some wind on mountain ridges, but the wind will be lightest in the wee hours.

About BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

Matthew Moneymaker is originally from the Los Feliz District of Los Angeles, California.

- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

- Juris Doctorate (Law degree) from University of Akron School of Law

- Founder of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization,1995.

- Writer and co-producer of the Discovery Channel documentary "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science", 2001.

- Co-producer of the TV Series "Mysterious Encounters" for the Outdoor Life Network (OLN Channel), 2002.

- Producer of the "2003 International Bigfoot Symposium" (Willow Creek Symposium) DVD set, 2004.

- Co-host of "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet Channel, 2010 - 2017.

- Current Director of the BFRO

- Available for private bigfoot expeditions and conferences. To inquire please email ContactUS@BFRO.net