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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jul 1973 North Bonneville, Skamania Cty, Washington

    Louis Alway, with daughter Cindy, 7, saw a "Bigfoot" cross the highway West of Beacon Rock in front of his car, running upright, movement looked like slow motion, yet covered ground fast. Creature was 6 to 7 feet tall, brownish…

    #1000831 one small Creature description

  2. Jul 1973 Walla Walla, Walla Walla Cty, Washington

    Gregory Spies, his wife and a friend found a single footprint, about 14 inches by 6 inches, in a patch of disturbed earth to one side of a trail in the Wenaba backcountry. It was not visible from the trail.

    #1000832 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  3. Jul 1973 Silverdale, Kitsap Cty, Washington

    Carl Knight heard running feet, got up and saw form going down the road at fast jog. By night light next door saw it was an upright creature covered with hair, swaying "somewhat like an ape would walk." It ran…

    #1000833 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Aug 1973 Cle Elum, Kittitas Cty, Washington

    Mrs. Jane Brazda on August 3, 1973, told Joel Hurd that her brother, Mike Reddell, and his girlfriend had had a sasquatch experience the previous evening. Mike said they met a photographer named Tom Crawford, from Portland, on the trail…

    #1000834 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Oct 1973 Greenwater, Pierce Cty, Washington

    Larry and Pat Becker took Nils Rosdahl to see a footprint they had found beside a logging road high up in Martin Gap in the drainage of the West Fork of the White River. It was in a lone muddy…

    #1000836 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  6. Nov about 1973 Dayton, Columbia Cty, Washington

    #1000838 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Dec 1973 Colville, Ferry Cty, Washington

    #1000839 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  8. Apr 1973 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Don Stratton driving to his home 12 miles East of Estacada when a chunk of wood flew out onto the road. He got out to see where it came from and saw about 25 feet away amid the small trees…

    #1001043 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. about 1973 Molalla, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Two sons of Carol Cannard, aged 10 and 11, were motorcycling on the road to Goat Mountain (Clear Creek Rd.?) found 18-inch tracks. Later showed them to their parents. A dozen or more tracks in the center and alongside the…

    #1001044 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  10. May 1973 Rainbow, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Renee Allen told a Lane County deputy that while hiking near Linton Lake she heard a noise, stopped on the trail and watched from about 40 yards as a "Bigfoot" ran up a hill at tremendous speed and disappeared in…

    #1001045 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Aug 1973 Baker, Baker Cty, Oregon

    Mona Woodward and others were driving home from fishing at Anthony Lake, at 10.30 p.m., when they saw a large, upright animal walk into the brush along the road. It was in sight for 4 or 5 steps. Height 7…

    #1001046 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. 1973 Oakridge, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Mark Krueger was working on a disabled boxcar on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the Pope & Talbot Co. mill at Westfir when he saw a sasquatch watching him from the fringe of the brush a few yards away. He…

    #1001047 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. 1973 Hamilton, Ravalli Cty, Montana

    Sonny McClure with a crew building a logging road several miles out of Darby, walking to worksite at 6 a.m. heard a strange noise like a small boy playing with toy trucks, but louder. Entered clearing and saw 7-foot apelike…

    #1001136 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 1973 Hamilton, Ravalli Cty, Montana

    Mrs. Presley Lay, her son Eldin Wildey and his family at the Lay ranch 5 miles South of Hamilton in Sawtooth Canyon, went looking for bears in abandoned apple orchard, then looked over a bank into the river bottom and…

    #1001137 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Jun 1973 Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho

    Ron Harvey, at about 4 p.m., saw a creature similar to the one he saw the previous fall, but smaller, farther up the same ridge. It seemed to lean forward and put its whole body into each step as it…

    #1001200 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. Aug 1973 Bovil, Clearwater Cty, Idaho

    Bill Weir and his wife, camping Shattuck Mountain (not on 1:250,000 map), on honeymoon, about 10 a.m. got a glimpse of a creature covered with dark hair, over 10 feet tall and very heavy, in the brush near camp. Later…

    #1001201 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  17. Jul 1973 Carson City, Douglas Cty, Nevada

    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Searls and Mr. and Mrs. D. Cowdell, driving to Lake Tahoe, two thirds of the way up the Kingsbury Grade at 8.30 p.m., came around a turn and saw a black animal in a depression off…

    #1001245 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Jul 1973 Farmington, San Juan Cty, New Mexico

    No useful information for witness reports. This incident report will do for two creature reports. Information very sketchy, but accuracy not in doubt. In one incident two people saw a sasquatch walking, swinging its arms. In the other one person…

    #1001253 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. about 1973 Lander, Fremont Cty, Wyoming

    Jim DeLozier, then 12, was rock hunting about a mile from where his family was camped at Washakie Lake (not on available maps) in the Wind River Mountains, when he found five tracks 16 inches by 7 inches, sunk two…

    #1001271 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Sep 1973 Hume, Fresno Cty, California

    On a fishing trip in Sequoia National Forest, Larry Lesh and Vanwedigen camped on a bluff below the canyon rim on the North Fork of the Kings River between Black Rock and Lily Pad campgrounds, below Wishon Reservoir. In the…

    #1001442 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. Oct 1973 Amboy, Cowlitz Cty, Washington

    Witness was standing beside a big fir tree waiting for deer. Heard rustling in an alder thicket 100 feet away, and an 8.5-foot creature, covered with Black hair with a reddish tinge, came out of the alders and stood for…

    #1001469 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Aug 1973 Agassiz, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia

    Driving East on Hwy 7 approaching Ruby Creek bridge, after 1 a.m., saw huge creature standing by the road, so big could have crossed road in two or three steps.

    #1001516 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Aug 1972 Silverton, Marion Cty, Oregon

    #36 Footprints

  24. Sep 1972 Concrete, Whatcom Cty, Washington

    #103 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  25. about 1972 White Swan, Yakima Cty, Washington

    #105 one large, sex unknown Creature description