Incident #991227
Minnesota
1978
Account
At home alone, 22-year-old man went to see what was causing a commotion in the chicken house, encountered "a god-awful smell" then saw a sasquatch that had ripped a hole in the chicken-wire fence and was standing holding a chicken in its hand. Its face looked "peaceful", and it started a deep-toned chatter from deep in its throat. Terrified, he dropped his rifle, which went off and blew a hole in the side of the chicken house. The creature screamed. Dogs cowered under the porch. Next day his father found tufts of hair on the wire of the enclosure, and found 18 to 20-inch very clear footprints in the yard and leading across a muddy meadow towards the woods, and the swamps back of Lake Superior.
When
- Year
- 1978
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Minnesota
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- empty building
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- flashlight
Source
- Source
- Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter No. 11, quoting a woman named Roxanne quoting her 22-year-old brother.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Expression
- none
- Nose
- no snout
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- made a noise
- Aggressive To
- chickens
- Arms Used
- for carrying
- Object Handled
- animal
- Sound
- chatterýscream
- Odour
- strong
- Eating
- small animal
- Evidence Left
- footprintsýhair
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 19.0
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Track Condition
- very good
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Tracks Came From
- yard
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- stayed stillýshot