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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Nov 1978 Sekiu, Clallam Cty, Washington

    Checking a possible trapping area where two beaver ponds drain into Umbrella Creek just North of the road to Ozette Lake, Buck Adamire saw two sets of tracks crossing a sandbar. He examined one and found it was barefoot and…

    #1000904 two large, sex unknown Footprints

  2. Nov 1978 Eatonville, Pierce Cty, Washington

    Dave and brother hunting deer between Mashel River and Lunch Creek, Dave noticed something moving, and observed a grey-brown creature about 6.5 feet tall, covered with matted hair. It then appeared to smell him, looked at him, then left.

    #1000905 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Jan 1978 Newburg, Yamhill Cty, Oregon

    Thomas Martin reported to state police that he had seen on two nights a 6-foot, 400 pound creature with a flat face, square teeth and hair 3.5 to 4 inches long all over its body. He said it was pulling…

    #1001073 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Mar 1978 Albany, Benton Cty, Oregon

    Byron Forty, 14, and Terry (Perry?) Hayes, 13, out shooting with .22's, found 17-inch by 5.5-inch tracks in a two-acre plowed field by one of the Freeway Lakes. Tracks were very flat (poor photo looks too flat) with 5 toes,…

    #1001074 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  5. Apr 1978 Rogue River, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Fred and Esther Eichorn found very large, barefoot prints in mud alongside a dirt road, apparently typical 16-inch, 5-toed tracks.

    #1001075 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  6. Apr 1978 Hillslboro, Washington Cty, Oregon

    Don Jackson's son, 17, changed a light bulb on the porch at 9 p.m. When the light went on a 7-foot biped ran past the house and into nearby woods. It was cream coloured, with matted hair. Next day found…

    #1001076 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  7. Oct 1978 Heppner, Morrow Cty, Oregon

    Larry Waldo was hidden behind some small evergreens, hunting elk near Penland Lake, and watching a skid road along the creek bottom of a ravine, when he watched for 5 minutes as a dark, black-brown creature walked along erect 600…

    #1001077 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Nov 1978 Hillsboro, Washington Cty, Oregon

    Unidentified man called sheriff's office shortly after 3 a.m. to report that he had seen an 8-foot, furry creature walking around cars and looking through car windows near an overpass bridge on Baseline Road just East of Hillsboro.

    #1001078 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Aug 1978 Libby, Lincoln Cty, Montana

    Ernest Fritz said he was going fishing about 5:30 a.m. from his ranch in the Yaak River area and paused at the edge of a meadow hoping to see a moose. A deer burst out of the timber into the…

    #1001171 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Nov 1978 Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai Cty, Idaho

    Boyd Johnson was living in a camper truck by his trapline on the Coeur d'Alene River below Rose Lake, when he heard strange sounds in the night, close at hand, a repeated woof-woof-woof that caused a nearby dog to bark…

    #1001216 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. Nov 1978 Weippe, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Ed Hafer took some of his family for a drive to the Musselshell Ranger Station area about 15 miles East of Weippe. Snow on the ground was about 2 feet deep, several inches of it from the night before. He…

    #1001217 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  12. Apr 1978 Carlsbad, Eddy Cty, New Mexico

    Families of Anita and Gene Bryan and Gail and Mike Waldrop camping at Rocky Creek recreation area in the Guadalupe Mountains near Sitting Bull Falls. Men fishing, women asleep in the car, men heard something walking around the camp and…

    #1001255 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. 1978 Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Cty, Alaska

    On May 13, 1979, Paula Sue Apyer found on an island in Montana Creek, on her property South of Talkeetna, three partial footprints apparently made before the snow the preceding autumn. Five toes with an 8-inch spread, ball of a…

    #1001277 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. Jan 1978 Dillingham, Dillingham Cty, Alaska

    Jim Coffee encountered an 8-foot creature loping along the road on two legs, while driving to the airport near Iliamna. Skidded to a stop on icy road and then fired a few shots to scare the creature off. This was…

    #1001279 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  15. Feb 1978 Dillingham, Dillingham Cty, Alaska

    Unnamed residents of Iliamna reported seeing 18-inch tracks in snow leading from the local flight station to the airport, about two miles, and continuing into the hills. There were also handprints, and a rump imprint in three inches of snow.

    #1001280 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  16. Jun 1978 Bellevue, Crows Nest Pas, Alberta

    Robert Morin, 13, was setting gopher traps when he found a huge humanlike track on a mound near a gopher hole. He called the Blairmore Pass Herald and staff members took photos and saw two sizes of prints, one 18"…

    #1001308 two large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. Nov 1978 Calgary, Bearspaw, Alberta

    Mother and son at home in Bearspaw, dog making a fuss, one or other (they both claim the honour) was first to see a black creature 6 or 7 feet tall walking towards the river, which was down a steep…

    #1001309 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. 1978 Gold Beach, Curry Cty, Oregon

    J.P. and his sister were fishing off a dock on the Rogue River. He heard a sound like a woman screaming, then they saw a hairy creature shaped like a human rise up across the river.

    #1001339 one large, sex unknown

  19. about 1978 Saskatchewan Crossing, N. Saskatchewan Riv, Alberta

    Aaron Langyel said he knows an Indian who was sleeping in camp 15 milees towards Nordegg (presumably from Saskatchewan Crossing) and awoke to see a sasquatch about 30 yards away, looking at him. It just walked off.

    #1001380 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Jun 1978 O;Brien, Curry Cty, Oregon

    On prospecting trip North of Sourdough Camp at the bottom Biscuit Hill, confidential and others first noted that something large and heavy had been dragged for a couple of hundred yards through the brush, going uphill, and causing damage higher…

    #1001501 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. May 1978 Wapiti, Park Cty, Wyoming

    S. and another man were driving to Yellowstone Park for summer work. At about 1.45 a.m, a half-hour drive from the park gate, rounded a curve and saw a large, dark, shaggy figure coming up out of the ditch on…

    #1001513 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Sep 1979 Toledo, Lincoln Cty, Oregon

    #54 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 1979 Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington

    #130 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  24. Oct 1979 Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington

    #131 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  25. Nov 1979 La Grande, Pierce Cty, Washington

    #132 one large, sex unknown Creature description