- May 1979 Bridgeport, Mono Cty, California
- Jul 1979 Redwood Valley, Mendocino Cty, California
- Nov 1979 Porterville, Tulare Cty, California
- Jun 1979 Kitimat, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
- 1979 to 1980 Bellevue, King Cty, Washington
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1979
Bluffton, Wells Cty, Indiana
Witness driving on Indiana 316 in Ouabache State Recreation Area, saw eyes reflecting red then approached 7-foot creature standing at the roadside near a pine tree. Got out of car and walked to within 15 feet, when it turned and…
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Jul 1979
Williams, Martin Cty, Indiana
Andy Kieth, 19, works at Martin County Highway Dept. garage, lives Northwest of Williams, in forest. Said that on way to work, 6.30 a.m., he came over a hill and saw the creature come out of a field and across…
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Oct 1979
Webster City, Hamilton Cty, Iowa
Checking for raccoon tracks, 3.30 a.m., Bryon Davis heard a noise in the bushes, swung his flashlight and saw a big animal get up and walk off through the underbrush with huge strides. He thinks it had been sleeping. Location…
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Nov 1979
Minburn, Dallas Cty, Iowa
Larry Wilson's dogs were barking and he could hear raspy, heavy, rhythmic breathing. He looked out upstairs window and saw creature pass under a yard light. With o;thers, he found 12 to 13-inch tracks in frost covered grass. Location is…
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Jan 1979
Millington, Tuscola Cty, Michigan
Mrs. Servid heard a 'high pitched, sharp and broken report" lasting about 5 seconds at 11 p.m. Next morning there were over 200 footprints in a two acre area around the house, in two sizes, 14" long and 11" long.
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Jan 1979
Augusta, Kalamazoo Cty, Michigan
Patrolling in the Beaver Pond area of Fort Custer Recreation Area, Bill Kosmider and Paul Uerling watched a creature moving away at an angle in the 6-foot marsh grass, visible above the grass almost as far down as the waist.…
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May 1979
Comins, Oscoda Cty, Michigan
Picking mushrooms in a wooded valley 4 miles West of Cummings, Ned Ellis looked up and saw two creatures watching him from 200 feet away. He estimated one at 8 or 9 feet and 700 or 800 pounds, the other…
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Jun 1979
Mayville, Tuscola Cty, Michigan
Four girls playing hide and seek. Sandra Kapa saw a figure move behind a 7-foot pine tree. It was several inches taller than the tree. She lifted her eight-year-old sister on her shoulder so Christie could see it too. Other…
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Jul 1979
Forest Twsp., Genesee Cty, Michigan
Sitting in screened garage about 10.20 p.m., witness heard brush breaking in nearby swamp, then saw a figure walking upright just outside the fringe of the swamp. It stepped onto a grassy knoll. Was too big to be human. It…
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Sep 1979
Dansville, Ingham Cty, Michigan
No sighting or footprints, but 24 heavy feed sacks found torn open, and a hand pring on an aluminum pickup truck top, 11 in. x y in. Longest finger only 3.5 in. Thumb low towards wrist, not opposed.
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about 1979
Waskish, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota
Harvey Cole said a beaver trapper went two miles into the bog east of Hwy 72, travelling in a network of old ditches by canoe. Under a powerline there was a pile of brush and there a sasquatch stood up…
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Sep 1979
Littlefork, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota
Kerry Meyers and John and Patty Sietz, driving on field roadway of Jim Jonson acreage looking for a future bear-hunting site. Tracks showed only on the road, starting in the middle, making a quarter mile jaunt down and back. Five…
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Dec 1979
Rochester, Olmsted Cty, Minnesota
On the road between Rose Haven and Marvale additions, headlights picked up 7-foot creature, est. 250 to 300 lbs., covered with hair and with a huge mouth a piglike nose and very ugly. It attempted to cover its eyes and…
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Oct 1979
Werner, Dunn Cty, North Dakota
Dunn County men said that as they rounded a curve a mile south of Werner at 7 p.m., headlights shone on dark animal standing at the road edge. Driver had to swerve to miss it. They did not see where…
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1979
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
Howard Burke Jr. lived a trailer park next to the Cayton place. He said he had a good look at the creature as it crossed Route 30, seeing it standing across the road as he turned into the park driveway.…
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Oct 1979
Watertown, Codington Cty, South Dakota
Man and wife said they were driving on Hwy 81 six miles north of Watertown when they saw a creature about 5 feet high at an abandoned farmstead, sitting with its legs spread apparently eating grain.
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Oct 1979
McNaughton, Oneida Cty, Wisconsin
On the shore of Pickerel Lake, 8 miles northeast of McNaughton (not the Pickerel Lake that can be found on a road map, there are at least three around) Keith McCaffery found footprints while on a grouse research project, and…
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Nov 1979
McNaughton, Oneida Cty, Wisconsin
Pat Kelley and Gene Baade found a single print at the edge of Pickerel Lake about 50 feet from where Keith McCaffery had found tracks three weeks earlier. It was impressive in that it had broken the root system of…
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Sep 1979
Rhinelander, Oneida Cty, Wisconsin
On hearing of footprint find by Keith McCaffrey, Bruce Wendt, a prominent bear hunter contacted McCaffrey to say that he and a partner had discovered similar tracks a month earlier.
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about 1979
Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas
Tracy Wilson, then about 10, was playing with a tea set in her backyard when she looked up and saw a 7-foot creature with long black hair about 30 yards away. She slowly walked back into the house.