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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 1982 Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California

    Bob Titmus went to look at tracks reported in small artificial pond just above Laird Meadow on Onion Mountain. Found two large footprints plus handprints and knee prints, all under water. Partially drained pond and made casts.

    #1000614 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  2. May 1982 Orange Cty, California

    Searching an area where "Mr. H." had reported a sighting a year earlier, Dennis Ruminer found in the sand of a nearby riverbed several hundred yards of humanlike tracks, 15" by 8", with an even 52-inch stride and a depth…

    #1000647 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  3. May 1982 Buena Park, Orange Cty, California

    Three (one paper says four) 16-year-old boys, one of them apparently Raymond Hinsley, reported that they had seen a heavy, 7.5 to 8-foot hair-covered biped after dark in a big drainage ditch near an apartment building at 7601 Franklin Ave.…

    #1000649 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  4. Apr 1982 Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Dennis Heryford contacted by a logger who did not wish his name made public and taken to "Abbott Hill" (not on 1:250,000 map) where there were two large footprints dried in mud on a logging spur road in a two-year-old…

    #1000926 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  5. Apr 1982 Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Dennis Heryford was called to a location on the Satsop River known as Worman's Bar (not on 1:250,000 map) to see two sets of tracks that came out of the river together, going Westerly until they disappeared in hard-packed gravel.…

    #1000927 two large, sex unknown Footprints

  6. Apr 1982 Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Dennis Heryford was called to a location on the Chehalis River known as "Elma Gate Boat Launch" (not on 1:250,000 map) by Officer Jim Young of the Oakville police department. With Sgt. Veryl Hutchinson, attended and that day and next…

    #1000928 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  7. May 1982 Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Dennis Heryford was called to a location in the Porter Creek area, where a local pastor had found tracks while on an outing with a group of children. With Deputy Mike Behm, photos were taken and two of the four…

    #1000929 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  8. Dec 1982 Washougal, Skamania Cty, Washington

    Scott Brown and Neal Brown, brothers, were remodelling a house near the Washougal River in Skamania County. In the front yard they found seven clear footprints 14 inches by 7.5 inches, plus some less obvious ones. Three more good prints…

    #1000931 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  9. Jun 1982 Milton Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    WARNING: On the face of it this is a high-quality report, but since then Paul Freeman has been involved with so many more reports, one of which involved proven fakery by someone, that it is generally discounted. Who knows? Paul…

    #1001086 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  10. Jun 1982 Milton Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    WARNING: See 1001086. Paul Freeman and Bill Epoch, patrolling inside the Mill Creek Watershed, found a number of 14-inch by 7-inch tracks, similar to those found 10 days earlier. Joel Hardin, a U.S. Border Patrol tracker, pronounced them fakes, but…

    #1001087 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. Jul 1982 Wallowa, Wallowa Cty, Oregon

    Allen Mitchell, Mike Evans, Russ Evans, Andy Ely, Rodney Bonifer and Paul Freeman on a fishing trip on the South Fork Wehana River, camped at the mouth of Milk Creek, where someone found and Freeman cast large cripple-footed tracks. Next…

    #1001088 more than two, sex unknown (large) Footprints

  12. Jun 1982 Great Falls, Lewis and Clark Cty, Montana

    Jenny English said that while returning from a ball tournament some of two carloads of young people saw a large, hairy, upright creature walking in the middle of the Interstate 15 freeway in Wolf Creek Canyon. Many were sleeping. Stopped…

    #1001175 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Jun 1982 Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai Cty, Idaho

    George McGregor was working with a survey crew on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River, 4 miles below Lightning Creek. One morning a bundle of survey stakes was found scattered and there were 20 or 30 large tracks,…

    #1001226 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. Jun 1982 Sundre, Eagle Lake, Alberta

    Roy Hord was riding near the Ya Ha Tinda Ranch, up at Eagle Lake, and was walking his horse back along a road when he noticed a dark brown creature 150 yards ahead standing on two legs looking at him.…

    #1001312 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Oct 1982 Rocky Mountain House, Nordegg River, Alberta

    Miles Smith and Wayne Ferguson were hunting, but had stopped by Owl Creek near the Nordegg River to do some fishing. They eard a howl or scream starting low, then high and went to investigate, "around the bushes into a…

    #1001313 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. May 1982 to 1983 Union Creek, Douglas Cty, Oregon

    Witness and son on motorcycle, jumped over top of rise and encountered black-haired biped, over 7 ft. and 350 pounds, standing in the road. Came within five feet, it stared at them, then turned, ran across a small opening and…

    #1001477 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. Dec 1983 British Columbia

    #272 more than two, sex unknown (large) Creature description

  18. 1983 Farmington, Davis Cty, Utah

    #328 one large, sex unknown

  19. 1983 Longview, Cowlitz Cty, Washington

    #423 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Oct 1983 Shoals, Martin Cty, Indiana

    Couple heard horrendous screams, looked and saw two creatures walking at the edge of the woods 200 yards away. Looked like gorillas but built like humans. They walked with fluid motion, effortless. Hands hung below knees. Big one's arms bigger…

    #991068 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. 1983 Vassar, Tuscola Ctyk, Michigan

    Driving from home in Caro to job in Flint, going West on M46 about 4.30 a.m., saw an upright figure, dirty grey, cross the road with long, loping steps, and enter the woods by the Cass River. Wayne King got…

    #991194 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. May 1983 Vassar, Tuscola Cty, Michigan

    Three Californians saw the creature on Hwy M-46 at the Cass River region of Enos Park at 3.15 a.m. They stopped as it crossed in front of the vehicle and proceeded towards the river.

    #991195 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Nov 1983 Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio

    Tom Cinefro was hunting in thick underbrush and had the feeling something was watching, then at a clearing he saw a black creature 8 ft. tall standing watching. Next day he went back and found broken branches and the 17…

    #991334 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  24. Apr 1983 Bracken Cty, Kentucky

    Woman claimed a large manlike creature broke into a screened porch and took things from a freezer. A package of liver and two whole chickens were taken. The liver package, empty, was found 50 feet from the porch. She thinks…

    #991772 one, no description Creature description

  25. Jul 1983 Prince Frederick, Calvert Cty, Maryland

    At 10 p,.m., unnamed woman saw a huge manlike animal moving through her backyard.

    #992156 one, no description