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Jan 1980
Manchester, Delaware Cty, Iowa
Cyril O'Brien, on regular run for Illinois Central Gulf railroad, saw 4.5 miles East of Manchester a creature near the tracks eating an animal carcass. It was bigger than any dog and had a flat face and no tail. He…
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May 1980
Millington, Tuscola Cty, Michigan
Ann Webster, sitting at breakfast at 6 a.m., saw a brown, erect creature come out of the woods 100 yards distant and walk along, swinging its arms, until it re-entered the woods. Heavy woods and swamps around the area.
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1980
Tuscola Cty, Michigan
Woman said she and her husband were watching TV in their home in the Cass River region of Tuscola County when they twice heard "a terrible howling scream." They looked out in the yard and saw a massive, dark upright…
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1980
Tuscola Cty, Michigan
Bow hunter heard what he thought was another hunter approaching, then saw a very large, black or very dark creature moving through the woods on two legs. He told the gas station man he would never return to that area.
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Nov 1980
Battle Creek, Calhoun Cty, Michigan
John Pelfrey said that while hunting deer between West MIchigan Ave., and the Kalamazoo River he heard and then saw a hairy biped slightly less than six feet, then two more 7 to 8 feet tall. They grunted and fled.…
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May 1980
International Falls, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota
Stanley Sutherland, 51, and two sons were returning from a fishing trip in Canada. On Hwy 11 six of seven miles west of International Falls, Stanley, on the right-hand side of the car, saw what he took for a gorilla…
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1980
Frankford, Pike Cty, Missouri
Letter regarding Missouri sasquatch sightings mentions one on the edge of Frankford. No other information.
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1980
Lincoln, Lancaster Cty, Nebraska
Unnamed motorcyclist said creature ran across the street near 26th and Fairfield in north Lincoln, so close he had to swerve to avoid hitting it. Salt Creek is nearby. Site is at edge of town, but factories and houses are…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Union Cty, Ohio
Patrick Poling was working on a tractor when the creature walked out of the woods and along the edge of a field. He watched for 6 or 7 minutes, then drove towards it. When he got about 100 feet away…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Logan Cty, Ohio
Raymond Quay, a golf-course greenskeeper and part-time police officer, went to see why hid dogs were barking, and the creature peered at him from around the barn. He yelled and it walked away. There was a smell "like limburger cheese…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Logan Ctky, Ohio
Getting the mail (presume from rural route box) at 8:15 a.m., Tom Quay saw the creature at the edge of the woods near their farm. Both turned and walked away. Three days after his father had seen it near the…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Union Cty, Ohio
Donna Riegler saw creature lying hunched over on the road. It got up, turned and looked at her holding its polms out, knees bent a bit, same gesture described by Pat Poling (1320).
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Logan Cty, Ohio
Larry Ramey was on a tractor when the creature came out of the woods and approached. It then went back in the woods, apparently disturbed by a second tractor. No description given, but presumably the same as related reports.
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Jul 1980
Plain City, Union Cty, Ohio
Charles Lovejoy in parked pickup on Smith-Calhoun Rd. near Big Darby Creek, turned up stereo and huge creature stood up in clearing 35 yards away, black hair, but lighter on face, eyes greenish. It left (how not stated) and Lovejoy…
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Oct 1980
McArthur, Vinton Cty, Ohio
No specific, detailed reporting of either sighting or track incidents. Tracks found weeks before sighting dated here, but there may have been earlier ones.
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early 1980's
West Jefferson, Franklin Cty, Ohio
Betty Powell says she fed dog food and deer meat to a trio of red-eyed sasquatch-type creatures that lived in the woods behind her house for more than 18 months.
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early 1980's
Nowata, Nowata Cty, Oklahoma
The most definite of several stories involving young people in the Nowata area. Leroy Phillips was spending the night in a clearing near Double Creek in an area called Overcut Bottoms, "a dank, weed-choked slough and quarry area bounded by…
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Jun 1980's
Idabel, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma
Skippy Smith, high school track coach, squirrel hunting heard something big and strong moving through trees and through a gap in leafy cover near the ground saw hairy, reddish-brown legs of an animal walking upright. He got out of there.
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Feb 1980
McNaughton, Oneida Cty, Wisconsin
Girl was alone at home when dogs started to bark wildly. Looking out window she saw partly behind a 15-foot spruce tree two glowing yellow eyes belonging to a creature seven foot tall. It stood slouched, with shoulders bent over…
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Apr 1980
Rhinelander, Oneida Cty, Wisconsin
Keith McCaffrey found tracks at the junction of Roosevelt and Cross Country Roads, 8 to 10 miles east of his Pickerel Lake discovery. Gene Baade, Pat Kelley and Pat's father-in-law saw them the same day.
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mid 1980's
Sweet Home, Winston Cty, Alabama
"In 1985 or 1986 the 'Slough Varmit' a creature described as albino, 8.5 to 9 feet tall, with red eyes, screamed like a woman, cahased a friend while out riding a dune-buggy at Chicken Foot Hollow at about 35 m.p.h."…
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May 1980
Eustis, Lake Cty, Florida
Someone spotted a huge hairy creature crossing a main highway near the town of Eustis.
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Jun 1980
Altoona, Lake Cty, Florida
A road contractor found the footprints around a bulldozer on a road in Ocala National Forest close to Camp Ocala. Dee Kirby made casts for sheriff's department.
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about 1980
Rabbit Hash, Boone Cty, Kentucky
Steve Jackson saw a newspaper article in Rabbit Hutch about a gorilla-like thing that was going around shaking trailers so hard the dishes would break.
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Mar 1980
Union, Boone Cty, Kentucky
About 2 a.m. David and Jackie Stulz felt something shake their trailer. David went outside with a shotgun and a .22 magnum pistol and emptied both at a large, black animal as it was entering the river. Mrs. Stulz's sister,…