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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jul 1971 Overton Cty, Tennessee

    Brenda and Cindy were coming back from picking blackberries at the back of the family farm and heard a big animal following them through a cedar woods. They turned and confronted a tall, long-armed hairy man, which looked startled, threatening,…

    #992697 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. 1971 Vincent, Washington Cty, Ohio

    Rodney and friend were watching TV in friend's parents' mobile home on a hill a quarter mile from the nearest house. They heard a noise, looked up and saw a large face looking in the window of the front door.…

    #992721 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. 1971 Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania

    Randy Fink and girlfriend sitting in tall grass on pipeline right of way heard a loud bird-like sound repeated for 20 minutes from a stationary location. Stood up and saw 20 yards away a 7 to 9-foot anthropoid standing in…

    #992837 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. May 1971 Broken Bow, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma

    On fishing trip to Broken Bow Reservoir, teenagers David Holley and A.C. climbed to the top of an island, found large area trampled down, with trees around broken off 9-10 feet up. Noted strong smell. On way down heard something…

    #992981 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. 1971 to 1972 Calcutta, Columbiana Cty, Ohio

    D.M. and friend, going to raid ice box about 2 a.m., turned on living room light and saw illuminated in yard a huge creature covered with dark brown hair walking away. Looked back quickly, turning upper body but not breaking…

    #993026 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  6. Feb 1971 Hope, Hope-Princeton Hwy, British Columbia

    Eileen Yerxa managing Sunshine Valley Lodge, in morning found miles of tracks about 14 inches long, with a 30 to 36-inch stride, in deep snow a foot of which had fallen overnight. Wandered around, double set but assumed was one…

    #1000091 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  7. 1971 Silverton, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Robbin Flewin and Rick Dankoski were travelling up Silverton Creek, fishing, when they found tracks 17 inches by 6 inches, two inches deep in the road up the creek. Toes were clear, showing dermal ridges. Seven or eight prints leading…

    #1000092 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  8. Jul 1971 Houston, Highway 16 Dis, British Columbia

    Mrs. Byron Sheldon was in a trailer at their recreational property on Buck Flats Road north of Grizzly Lake, 18 miles south of Houston, after breakfast one day in July, 1971, when a creature she estimated to be 8 feet…

    #1000173 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. May 1971 Tappen, Shuswap Dis, British Columbia

    Mrs. Gordon Birkenhead, Don Mills, Ont. passed on a story told her by a man from Tappen B.C., that another man from Tappen and an Indian family had seen a sasquatch in the water in a little lake on the…

    #1000174 one, no description

  10. Jul 1971 Lake Louise, Crowsnest Pass, British Columbia

    #1000175 one large female Creature description

  11. Sep 1971 Princeton, Allison Pass, British Columbia

    Harvey Kirby was sitting in a parked truck, driver sleeping, at the roadside just past the highway equipment yard at Allison Pass when he noticed movement in the rear-view mirror. He turned and watched a sasquatch walk across the paved…

    #1000176 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Jan 1971 Masset, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    Bob Titmus was told that a white man and three Indians had seen a sasquatch at the north tip of Kumdis Island while deer hunting. He flew there from Kitimat and found one good footprint in bare ground where a…

    #1000233 one, no description

  13. Oct 1971 Sechelt, Sechelt Peninsula, British Columbia

    Jon Stewart was prospecting on the Sechelt Peninsula at about the 3500-foot level when he came over a hill and saw two creatures of human shape covered with hair the colour of a collie dog near some swamp holes. It…

    #1000234 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Dec 1971 Silverdale, Kitsap Cty, Washington

    #1000259 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. May 1971 Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington

    David Roberts, 17, and Laranda Mata (or Larendo Mato) were hiking near the top of Mount St. Helens, saw footprints in the snow 11 inches by 6 1/2 to 7 inches, and followed them in pumice for about 3 miles,…

    #1000267 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  16. Oct 1971 Yale, Clark Cty, Washington

    Informant was at Yale Park, midway on the north side of Yale Reservoir, looking at scenery across the lake when he heard a powerful 10-second bellow from across the lake, starting low-pitched and becoming high and clear. Lake is about…

    #1000269 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1971 North Bend, King Cty, Washington

    Rob Parker said that Rich Ring and his girlfriend Sue Causey rode to the top of the hill on the road North of Mount Si before dropping down to Lake Handcock and there saw human type barefoot prints in the…

    #1000274 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  18. May 1971 The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon

    Joe Mederios saw the creature on May 27, 28 and 29, between 5 and 7 p.m. and on June 1 around 10 p.m. Several other people saw it between 5 and 7 p.m. on June 1. It would come down…

    #1000315 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  19. Jun 1971 The Dalles, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    Richard Brown and others saw the creature behind the Pinewood Mobile Court as he was driving home to his trailer. He went in and got his rifle to look at it with his 8-power telescopic sight. It did not show…

    #1000316 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  20. Dec 1971 Government Camp, Clackamas Cty, Oregon

    #1000317 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. 1971 Alpine, San Diego Cty, California

    Dr. Baddour, a psychiatrist practising in San Diego, bought a home near Alpine, south of Alpine Way, high above the Sweetwater River (usually dry). One night he and his wife and daughter entered the drive and saw in the headlights…

    #1000413 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  22. 1971 Alpine, San Diego Cty, California

    Family went outside at night with their son, to call their dog, and the small creature got up from where it had apparently been lying down near a corner of the house and walked away, joining the two larger ones,…

    #1000414 large, medium, small Creature description

  23. Aug 1971 Bishop, Inyo Cty, California

    #1000435 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. about 1971 Korbel, Humboldt Cty, California

    Rob Nelson and another employee of Simpson Timber Co., driving from Korbel along the Mad River rounded a bend in the dirt road and saw on the far bank of the river a tall, dark figure, walking upright,somewhat leaning forward,…

    #1000546 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Jul 1971 Platina, Shasta Cty, California

    Bill O'Neill and Dave Green walking from upper to lower campsite at Basin Gulch, heard footfalls, shined flashlight up sidehill and saw a sasquatch standing under a tree. Luminous red eyes, short hair everywhere but around cheeks and eyes. Froze…

    #1000553 one large, sex unknown Creature description