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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jun 1980 Guffey, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Two residents saw a large, hairy biped in their back yard, which ran away very quickly, and which made deep breathing sounds. It was too dark for a good look.

    #992459 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. Jun 1980 Guffey, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Witness saw a tall, hairy biped but could see no detail. He unsuccessfully tried to follow it through a field.

    #992460 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Jul 1980 Mainville, Columbia Cty, Pennsylvania

    Richard Knovich had stopped his car at his gate when he saw a 7 to 8-foot creature walking slowly towards him. He watched for a while, and when he got out of his car with a gun the creature turned…

    #992461 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jul 1980 Guffey, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Witnesses saw a tall hairy creature waling in a field. It moved quickly and made deep breathing noises. They had previously seen a strange blue light hovering in a field.

    #992462 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Aug 1980 Berwick, Columbia Cty, Pennsylvania

    Bill and Tom Talanca driving on the north side of Jonestown Mountain, north of Berwick, rounded a bend a quarter of the way down and encountered a large creature covered with black hair standing in the middle of the road.…

    #992463 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Aug 1980 Johnstown, Cambria Cty, Pennsylvania

    A footprint 17.75 inches long and 7.5 inches wide was found in a low, soft spot behind the rabbit cage back of the Jim Young home a mile of Frankstown Road in a wooded area. It was 3.75 inches deep…

    #992464 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  7. Aug 1980 Latrobe, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Waiting for the fire to go out after an outdoor party, man noticed a 9-foot, apelike creature standing at the edge of the woods holding a log over its head. He left immediately, but returned later and found the fire…

    #992465 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Aug 1980 South Fork, Cambria Cty, Pennsylvania

    Witness reported seeing a 7-foot, hairy creature with a sulfur odour.

    #992466 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Aug 1980 Berwick, Columbia Cty, Pennsylvania

    Bill Talanca reported finding an 18-inch by 7.5-inch, 5-toed track in the area where he reported seeing a sasquatch. (Jonestown Mountain, 2463)

    #992467 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  10. Sep 1980 Trafford, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Tweo boys saw a tall, hairy creature move slowly down a path towards them. It was covered with shiny black hair but the face was human-looking. It appeared to float or glide rather than walk.

    #992468 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Sep 1980 Boyles Run, Pennsylvania

    Witness near Dornsife Mountain heard strange mumbling and screeching sounds from a wooded area and smelled an uncomfortable odour, like an old cigar. Later he found a 17 by 6, 5-toed track in the vicinity.

    #992469 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  12. Sep 1980 Boyles Run, Pennsylvania

    Woman saw a tall hairy biped walking through a cornfield.

    #992470 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Sep 1980 Boyles Run, Pennsylvania

    Witness heard a strange screaming and heavy breathing after dark. Next day he found a 17-inch footprint, not shaped like a human print but with 5 toes.

    #992471 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  14. Oct 1980 Kingwood, Somerset Cty, Pennsylvania

    Man out walking heard a low gutteral growl and saw a 10-foot hairy creature weighing about 600 pounds which came within 25 feet of him before he ran to his car.

    #992472 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Oct 1980 Kingwood, Somerset Cty, Pennsylvania

    Two Kingwood brothers were hunting swuirrel about 500 yards behind their house, and noted that the area was unusually quiet. Then one noticed a huge hairy creature walking on two legs, crossing a field toward the tree line. He called…

    #992473 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. 1980 Markle, Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania

    Man saw a tall hairy creature standing in the shadows in his driveway.

    #992474 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. Jul 1981 Oklahoma, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Sam Frew found a 13-inch, three-toed footprint in his garden, across the Allegheny River from Apollo, PA, after three months of hearing strange noises and sounds of a large creature moving around in the woods. The day before a 12-inch,…

    #992475 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  18. Aug 1981 Oklahoma, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Sam Frew walking along a gas well right of way in the woods west of Rte 819, could hear somethig to his right moving in the same direction, then briefly saw it in the open stepping over the pipeline.

    #992477 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. Aug 1981 Oklahoma, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    J.D. Frew, biking home on Rte 819, saw a 10-foot, apelike creature with a cone-shaped head and no neck walking from a pasture into the woods.

    #992478 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Oct 1981 Vandergrift, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Colleen and husband backing out of driveway in Lancer Park housing development, Colleen saw in headlights an 8-foot, dark creature walk smoothly across the neighbouring lawn and disappear down a hillside.

    #992479 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Dec 1981 State Game Land #48, Columbia Cty, Pennsylvania

    13-year-old was sitting waiting for daylight on deer hunt. He heard something moving in the brush and noted "decaying animal" smell, then as day broke saw on his right 50 to 75 yards away a seated figure covered with brown…

    #992480 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Jun 1982 Hillside, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Robert France hunts rattlesnakes on Chestnut Ridge above Hillside. This day he was walking on top of the ridge in high Mountain Laurel and could hear somethng moving in time with him, so he left the ridge and started down…

    #992481 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. May 1985 Hillside, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    One of several occasions when Robert France tells of finding sasquatch tracks on Chestnut Ridge (the stride measurement from Creature Research Journal, winter, 1990, and not necessarily this particular set of tracks). In this case France photographed some of the…

    #992482 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  24. May 1989 Hillside, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Robert France showed Paul Johnson a cast of a track 13 inches long and 6 inches wide, except for the width quite human looking. Found at Trout Run, presumably the one on Chestnut Ridge.

    #992483

  25. 1982 York, York Cty, Pennsylvania

    Couple driving on Green Valley Road saw a tall, hairy, apelike creature cross the road in front of them on two legs, and enter woods.

    #992484 one large, sex unknown Creature description