Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Kendrick Outah, writing in Qua Toqti, a Hopi newspaper, reported a number of close encounters with large, hairy, humanoid creatures by "public figures, reliable people" who did not wish to be identified, at the village of Polacca. First incident was when all the dogs in the village started barking simultaneously, and police tracked footprints "unusually larger but otherwise like human footprints" down Polacca Wash (creek) to the foot of the sheer cliffs of First Mesa. A witness said he heard strange noises (screams referred to) at night and on investigating saw "a very large hairy living thling" standing by the shadow of a tree trunk. Again oversized footprints were found that disappeared at the edge of the mesa by the ancient village of Walpi. On January 13, int the full moon, a man looked out the window when the dogs went berserk and saw a creature standing near his house, which ran off to the West. In another case the creature was said to have a head as big as a large pumpkin. (Specifics in this incident set of entries are drawn from more than one report.)