YEAR: 2005-2011

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: August

STATE: Nebraska

COUNTY: Douglas County

LOCATION DETAILS: This location is very close to where the other sightings occurred on the boundary of Lauritzen Botanical Gardens in Omaha. See list for Douglas County Nebraska

NEAREST TOWN: Omaha

NEAREST ROAD: I-80

OBSERVED: In the summer of 2005 I was returning home from my cousins house who lives on 13th st. My mom had a dumpster at the bottom of her driveway. As I pulled into the driveway around 3 a.m. I saw this large hairy figure standing right on the corner of the dumpster kind of behind it but not all the way. As my headlights shined on it, it looked at me but did not move. I was stiff as well. I tried to call my mom continuously but she did not answer the phone because I was going to run in the house through the front door. She never answered so I drove back to my cousins but they were already asleep. I ended up parking my car up the street and sleeping in it until my mom finally called me at 6 a.m. I told her what had happened and it did not surprise her a bit because she has been seeing the same thing for years.

Summer 2006 I was sitting on the front of my moms steps and I seen a mom and baby across the street in the dead end. I thought I was seeing things at first but I wasn't. It started to move out of the brush and into the street towards me. Then a car came down the street and turned into the dead end. They hurried back into the wooded area and waited there for a while watching the driver of the car turn around, park, get out and go into the house behind the duplexes. Those people didn't have a clue that these two things were watching them. They stayed there for about five minutes and then they walked back into the woods and out of sight.


Fall 2006, Once again I was sitting on my friends front steps and seen a large something what I believe to be a bigfoot, walk from Terry and Kathy's yard towards the other dead end on the opposite side of the street. It disappeared into the night.


Summer of 2011, I had cooked out that evening and I had moved my baby grill over by the basement door so the smell of food was still present. That night I was upstairs with my other two kids as my 14 yr. old son Brendan was downstairs watching T.V. Everything was quiet until my son Brendan came running up the stairs crying hysterically and shaking. I had to slap him so he would come to and tell me what the heck was wrong. This is what he said...."I was laying down on the couch in my nana's basement just watching t.v. when he looked up at the door where there are three little windows present at the top of the door, as to what he describes as looking like a big hairy man with a scrunched in face and red eyes and it just stood there and looked at me. The shoulders took up the two squares of the outer windows and his head was in the middle.


Summer 2011, My son Brendan went from my house which was 3 houses from my moms to go get something, He walked down the driveway about halfway and he was on the far left of the driveway and he witnessed a baby bigfoot by the stairs to my moms deck. He said he turned around and ran back to my house at that point.

My sister sent in a report to you back in 2005 and I wrote this up because there have been sightings since then and I wanted you guys to know about them. One of your BFRO researchers called my mom about a month or so ago and told us to write this up. I am submitting this to you in hopes that you guys will come and do some research down here in Omaha. We live very close to the Missouri River and there are alot of wooded area around here.

ALSO NOTICED: We hear screams, banging on the side of my moms house, large footsteps being taken down her driveway, it's unbelievable. My mom and I just look at each other like WOW!

OTHER WITNESSES: yes, my mom, my son

OTHER STORIES: My mother was the one that first seen it when she was ten. Stan Courtney called my mom and talked to her about it back in 2005 I believe.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: Dusk, early morning around 5 or 6, late at night

ENVIRONMENT: wooded area

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

This report needs to be read in context with a few other reports. The investigator notes for those reports, regarding this location, apply to this report as well.

The other reports are:

Report 77968 (Douglas County 2024)

Report 12482 (Douglas County 2005)

Report 44573 (Sarpy County 2012)

Report 7809 (Sarpy County 1975)

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

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