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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jun 1972 Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Ed was in charge of fallers and buckers on a logging operation near Robinson Lake where huge barefoot humanlike footprints, 17 to 18-inches by 7 inches, were showing up overnight near equipment and along trails for a couple of weeks.…

    #1001034 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  2. Jun 1972 Eugene, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Bert Schluckebier was one of a group of motorcyclists heading for the top of Mount Nebo, an old volcanic peak 3400 feet high. Taking a break at noon, half a mile from the peak, one of them noticed a black…

    #1001035 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Jun 1972 Cottage Grove, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Brad Chambers was hunting Chittum Bark with Eugene Brown, when he heard a crashing noise in the brush and saw the above the low foliage the back of an oval-shaped head covered with dark hair, 8 or 9 feet up.…

    #1001036 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jun 1972 Detroit, Marion Cty, Oregon

    Thomas Smith and a friend were fishing in a lake at the base of Mount Jefferson, name unknown, which they had to reach by descending a "boulder-strewn cliff" for about 1000 feet. The other man saw two "guys" on the…

    #1001037 one medium, one small Creature description

  5. Jun 1972 Blue River, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Jack Harris, Bud Miller and Charles Ross were clearing a right-of-way for a road into a wilderness area along the McKenzie River (presume South Fork, as was Southeast from Blue River, and there was already a highway following the McKenzie…

    #1001038 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Jul 1972 Blue River, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Russ Lawrence, the surveyor, was walking a trail along the route of the new road following the McKenzie River (presume South Fork) when he noticed his Husky dog in a clearing ahead looking down towards the canyon. Went to see…

    #1001039 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Sep 1972 Myrtle Point, Coos Cty, Oregon

    Dewey Strong was driving West on the Lee Valley Road just off Hwy. 42 between Coquille and Myrtle Point, at 4.30 a.m., when his headlights swung across a 7-foot ape standing in the ditch on the North side of the…

    #1001040 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Oct 1972 Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Arlene Arp and her husband (called Oscar at one point and Larry at another??) camped at Cascadia Forest Camp on US 20, he hiked up a steep hill into the woods and saw giant humanlike tracks, flat, about twice the…

    #1001041 one large, one small Creature description Footprints

  9. 1972 Klamath Falls, Klamath Cty, Oregon

    Michael Bradley was hunting near Klamath Falls when he walked down a deer trail to a stream and saw a sasquatch (no description) standing across the stream from him. It turned and walked out of sight. Melvin Gunsaullus states that…

    #1001042 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. 1972 McCall, Valley Cty, Idaho

    Robert Espy said he drove rapidly past a creature a little over 6 feet tall, heavy-set, light brown, on a forest road.

    #1001196 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Sep 1972 Grangeville, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Armstrong and Koford said that while driving back to their hunting camp near Dixie, Idaho, they saw two sasquatches in their headlights, then a short time later, about 10 p.m., they sensed something in the brush and with a spotlight…

    #1001197 one large female Creature description Footprints

  12. 1972 Grangeville, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Hiking in the Selway Wilderness, where a mule had died a few months earlier, Ray Higgins found that the body had been moved and covered with huge branches. There are no grizzlies in the area. Exploring around he found footprints,…

    #1001198 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  13. 1972 Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho

    Ron Harvey, at his home near Orofino, in the early morning, shortly before daylight watched for a minute as an 8-foot creature covered with long, thick, greyish-white hair walked across an open field behind his barn, 50 to 75 yards…

    #1001199 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Jul 1972 Jackson, Teton Cty, Wyoming

    Vincent Lee wrote a detailed account of a 20-year-old girl riding along the West bank of the Snake River just below its confluence with the Hoback River and seeing across the river a dark, upright figure emerge from the timber…

    #1001269 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Aug 1972 Lander, Fremont Cty, Wyoming

    Tom Hernandez and Kurt Leininger, both 13, were riding by a hayfield on Fort Washakie Indian Reservation when they saw a tall, hairy monster with an ape-shape head move between two haystacks. They went on up the road, but when…

    #1001270 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. Jun 1972 Nordegg, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Location is unclear. Says near Nordegg and near Abraham Lake, but on a forestry road 20 miles West of Hwy. 11. No apparent place for a forestry road near the lake. Location used is a guess that it had to…

    #1001293 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1972 Rocky Mountain House, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Mrs. Robert Burton picking berries near her home with her daughter, 12, and a youth, 17, in a valley "full of tag alders" saw about 200 feet away the head and shoulders of a man covered with hair except on…

    #1001294 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Jan 1972 St. Charles, Bear Lake Cty, Idaho

    Justin Phelps went by snowmobile into the bottom of a canyon where he had seen an apelike creature on two previous occasions, all in winter. Lying on the machine, by a fire, he looked up and saw a 4.5-foot creature…

    #1001363 one small Creature description Footprints

  19. 1972 to 1973 Greeley, Weld Cty, Colorado

    #1001408 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Nov 1972 California

    #1001441

  21. 1972 Satsop, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Kirk and Kelly D., boys 15 and 16.5, were walking to their isolated home on E. Satsop road when they noted a large dark object following them. They ran, but it kept up, still apparently at an easy walk. They…

    #1001503 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  22. 1971 Republic, Ferry Cty, Washington

    #100 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  23. Nov 1971 Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington

    #101 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  24. 1971 Eatonville, Pierce Cty, Washington

    #102 one large, sex unknown

  25. 1971 Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California

    #204 Footprints