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Aug 1971
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This is the first of several nights on which men staying in a leanto high in the mountains above the Stanislaus River heard mysterious sounds suggesting the presence of a large creature or creatures outside, and then found huge footprints…
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1971
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This report concerns the only sighting report in the series. Louis (Lewis?) Johnson watching through a small opening in their log shelter saw a creature start across a patch of bright moonlight. It bounded away when he made a noise.…
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1971
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This is a catch-all incident report to cover the various sizes of tracks reported found in 1971, at various places, some of them distant from the camp. Warren Johnson states that the creatures seemed to be communicating with each other,…
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Sep 1971
Willows, Glenn Cty, California
C.H. Chambers told deputies that while driving his pickup truck he hit a 10-foot anthropoid animal walking on two feet. No location given. When he went back it was gone. Jim McClarin investigated and doubts the story. Hit by car.
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Dec 1971
Orleans, Humboldt Cty, California
Mike Burke, Buck Ferguson and Bill Mueller, forest service workers out of Orleans, found huge tracks on the Camp Creek Road a mile beyond the Twin Lakes turnoff. They measured 30 inches by 10 inches, in deep snow, possibly melted…
- 1971 Vantage, Grant Cty, Washington
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Jan 1971
Deming, Whatcom Cty, Washington
About 9.30 p.m., snowing, Informant's daughter looked out kitchen window and saw tracks crossing the back yard. They were in a straight line, 5 feet apart, 14 to 16 inches long, 7.5 to 8 inches wade. They went from the…
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Jan 1971
Yacolt, Clark Cty, Washington
With Bill Miller, Steve Adams followed a quarter mile of tracks in mud beside a new road on a creek above Yacolt. They ended going up on the hard road. Tracks were only 11 to 12 inches long, but shaped…
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1971
Bellingham, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Flying, East of Mt. Baker, Ron Smith and Gerry Cowan saw at the edge of a clearing, high up, a big, dark, erect figure standing in the snow. Cowan had binoculars. (Smith also reported seeing sasquatch tracks in the snow…
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1971
Quinalt, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Lyle Erdahl and two friends looking for elk to photograph found in the woods tracks in the snow 14 inches by 7 inches. There were elk tracks all around, and a funny odor in the woods. Erdahl says other people…
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Jun 1971
Vader, Lewis Cty, Washington
Mrs. Bowers found five footprints in the garden, 18 inches by 10 inches. Some looked as if they had two big toes. They began and ended mysteriously.
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Jan 1971
Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington
Ken schaffer and a friend cougar hunting, heard a scream, looked up when a rock fell down and saw a head bob back behind rocks. Went there and saw a hazy figure, arms long in proportion, est 8 to 9…
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Mar 1971
Tenino, Thurston Cty, Washington
Charles Smith and Margie Baker were parked in DesChutes Park in the Bald Hills when a 7-foot creature covered with shaggy hair appeared beside the vehicle, patted the top of the car, walked around to the other side and did…
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Feb 1971
Everson, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Mrs. Don Peterson's dog acted very upset about midnight. Next morning Petersons and friends found huge barefoot prints in the snow going up to the barn and around the well shack towards the back of the house. Prints were nearly…
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Feb 1971
Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon
Pastor and his family on a hike in early February walked up a logging road off Hwy. 20 beside the South Santiam River and at the end of a dead end road in 6 to 8 inches of snow saw…
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Apr 1971
Mill City, Linn Cty, Oregon
Ronald Correll and his two sons were hiking the trail to Pamelia Lake, off Hwy 22, when they came on 17" tracks near the trail and running parallel to it, heading downhill, for a mile and a half. They looked…
- Oct 1971 Beaver, Tilamook Cty, Oregon
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1971
Cannon Beach, Clatsop Cty, Oregon
Observer was driving towards Portland on Hwy. 26, East of the Saddle Mountain Park road, when a black sasquatch came down off the bank and ran across the road in front of his car, went over the guard rail and…
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1971
Hamilton, Ravalli Cty, Montana
Greg Mastel wrote that Gary Pseifer and his father and cousin were driving on the Gird Creek Road when a 7-8 foot creature, estimated 500 lbs., ran across the road then stood on the side of the road and watched…
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Jan 1971
Flagstaff, Coconino Cty, Arizona
Steven Kerley and Sherry Moberg were parked on a remote side road near the Lake Mary Road shortly after 1 a.m. when Kerley noticed a hair-covered face staring in the car window, belonging to a creature leaning against the car,…
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Jun 1971
Farmington, San Juan Cty, New Mexico
Mrs. Cheeseman and a co-worker visiting Navajo homes high in the Chuska Mountains, walked for lunch to an old ruin on a hill above an area of dense brush and while there heard crackling in the bushes and a peculiar…
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about 1971
Banff, Kicking Horse Pas, Alberta
Motel owner in Golden overheard telling other guests that on a trip home from Calgary the previous winter she and her son stopped because their car boiled over going up the Kicking Horse Pass, and when they turned on the…
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Jul 1971
Banff, Bow Val, Alberta
Dick Lauder and a companion driving on the edge of the mountains East of Banff saw at the bottom of a canyon half a mile away a moose-sized bipedal animal that walked on two legs along a stream bed. When…
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Sep 1971
Cougar, Cowlitz Cty, Washington
Rick Ralston was one of six people working on slash burning contract who were sitting around a campfire when the four on the other side of the fire looked startled and ran to a trailer. He turned around and saw…
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Jun 1971
Roseburg, Douglas Cty, Oregon
Witness and others, picnicking by Umpqua River. She was in the water when a hair-covered, 8-foot, dark brown "half man, half gorilla" stood up 10 feet away, presumably from behind large rocks, screamed and strode off across the boulders. Some…