Geographical Index > United States > Kansas > Jackson County > Report # 78502
(Class A)
Submitted by witness Warren Fink on Saturday, April 12, 2025.
Two witnesses in a Razor see a bigfoot at dusk 12 miles north of Topeka
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YEAR: 2025
SEASON: Spring MONTH: March DATE: 24 STATE: Kansas COUNTY: Jackson County LOCATION DETAILS: GPS: 39.216510, -95.730131 NEAREST TOWN: Hoyt NEAREST ROAD: NW 94th Street OBSERVED: Observed:
At roughly 8:00 p.m., a friend and I were driving home from a friend’s house on his Razor on 94th St., west of Highway 75, heading east.
My friend pointed to the south and said, “Hey Warren, is that a Sasquatch?” I looked to the south and said, “Yeah right… It’s one of those metal Bigfoot signs on the hill.”
As we were proceeding east, I noticed the arm movement and thought maybe it was mechanical.
We stopped when we reached the fence line and saw it was an actual Bigfoot. It was very tall, maybe 7 ½ to 8 ½ feet, coned head, covered in black hair, and long swinging arms. It continued over the hill and turned in mid-walk and looked back at us. As it proceeded over the hill, I hollered at it to try to make it stop, but it just kept walking at the same pace.
My friend and I looked at each other and said, “What the hell did we just see?” Of course, he said no one would believe us. We turned around to try to see it at the next cross road. Was at the next cross road, stopped at two and half mile to the south and shut off the Razor. I did two calls, and no response. We continued to the next road heading south and turned east. Went to the same fence line and stopped but saw nothing. Once again turned around and went to 94th. No further sightings.
Factors involved:
• Moon phase: waning 29%
• Temperature roughly upper 50s lower 60s
• Time about 8:00 p.m., dusk
• Weather was partly cloudy and calm
• After all this we did see for deer in the same section which were heading its way. After the sighting we saw more deer on the way home and one standing in my friend’s driveway. Theory is he was out hunting deer because they were so active. Do not remember any smells, as we heard they stink. Headed back out this morning to look for tracks and hair.
• Only found one hair on fence (looks like deer hair)
OTHER WITNESSES: 1 ENVIRONMENT: Mowed pasture, with red cedar and cottonwood groves near. Surrounding pastures, not mowed.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Suzie Myers:
FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION BY SUZIE MYERS
Accompanied by Amanda and Eric Stanley
On 28 March 2025, I met the reporting witness, Warren Fink, near where the sighting occurred on 24 March 2025. He gave an account of the sighting, as in his observation above. He lives about 3.5 miles from the sighting location in a rural area outside Hoyt, KS.
The road they were driving on at about 20-25 mph was hard-packed dirt with some areas of deep ruts. West of the sighting area, the road has several small hills. Between the road and the east-west fence was a moderate amount of grass and young trees with scant leaves before the landowner burned the roadside.
Warren indicated the Polaris Razor's location when they initially sighted the Bigfoot from a high point. The Bigfoot was walking moderately on the east side of a north-south barbed wire fence headed south. After plotting these two locations, the unobstructed sight line from the witnesses to the Bigfoot was approximately 170 meters. They then proceeded on the Razor to about 10 feet east of the fence line and were approximately 60 yards from the animal.
Warren called the Bigfoot, and it turned towards him. When he re-created the Bigfoot’s turn, he rotated to the right at the waist with his shoulders and only turned his head slightly. The Bigfoot then turned away and continued walking at the same pace towards a grove of trees, where they then lost sight of it at approximately 360 m. A landfill is approximately two miles directly south of 94th Street.
Using a tape measure, Warren determined the Bigfoot's height to be about seven feet, six inches, consistent with his 7 to 8 feet estimate. He based his initial estimation on comparing the Bigfoot to the adjacent fence posts, which are 4 feet tall. He estimates the encounter after moving the Razor to be at least 20 seconds. No long hair was noticed hanging from the animal’s arms as they remained at its side.
They returned the next day to check for footprints and found one area of depressed grass immediately north of the road and on the downside of the fence. Coming from the north, there appears to be a game trail leading from a grove of cottonwood trees surrounding and abutting two ponds. Warren said he hadn’t seen any disturbance in the grass south of the road before the brush burn occurred. There was no examination of the Bigfoot’s path beyond the fence, as permission was not granted.
He has not heard of anything unusual happening in the region, such as calls or wood knocks. He is not aware of any of his friends or neighbors having injury or death to livestock. He is also unaware of friends or neighbors losing any stored feed. No hunting seasons were open, negating the possibility of misidentification with a hunter. There is no large game in the area, with rare black bear sightings only occurring in the state's southern counties.
The grass depression was non-descript upon observation. It measured 17.5 by 7 inches. Several 3-D scans were taken, which suggested a heel and a toe. Casting was not undertaken as the landowners continuously monitored the activity on the road.
FINAL IMPRESSIONS: Warren is an intelligent and articulate man whose account of the sighting has been consistent. He was pleasant and open to the inquiries from the BFRO. He is a hunter and facile with estimating distances. He has returned to the site and the area a few times since the sighting, as he is now curious about Bigfoot activity in the area.
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