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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Apr 1961 Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California

    #171 Footprints

  2. Aug 1961 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    #172 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  3. 1961 Wilmington, Clinton Cty, Ohio

    Small town near Wilmington, 9 ft. Bigfoot chased from house by man with shotgun.

    #991282 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jun 1961 Baltimore, Baltimore Cty, Maryland

    Patricia Fergesen and husband saw Bigfoot-type creature in Leakin Park. He chased it and it pulled back a tree limb like a slingshot and growled.

    #991994 one, no description Creature description

  5. 1961 to 1962 Plainfield, Washington Cty, Vermont

    William Lyford went to see why his cows were making a commotion, at his farm at Lanesboro Station on the Wells River-Barre Railroad. He saw a tall hairy bipedal creature which turned and fled over a hill when his flashlight…

    #992323 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Oct 1961 Nelson, Kokanee Park, British Columbia

    John Bringsli had reported seeing a sasquatch in Kokanee Glacier Park a year earlier, and he had gone with another man hoping to find another one. At midnight, still in the trees just short of where the trail went out…

    #1000036 one large female Creature description

  7. Dec 1961 Klemtu, Swindle Isl, British Columbia

    Bob Titmus was walking his dog at night at Klemtu, and found a trail of 13.5 inch tracks in the heavy frost on the boardwalk among the cannery cabins uphill from the cannery.

    #1000046 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  8. Oct 1961 Klemtu, near Swindle Isl, British Columbia

    Bob Titmus had anchored his boat in the shelter of an islet in Kitasu Bay during a storm and saw tracks on the beach. He had to strip and swim ashore to look at them. They started at the tideline…

    #1000047 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  9. Dec 1961 Anahim Lake, Chilcotin Dis, British Columbia

    Bob Titmus driving east from Bella Coola through Tweedsmuir Park saw tracks from car, four sets all about the same size. It was too cold to follow them. Photo didn't show. Only one footprint report with this incident report, as…

    #1000048 more than two, sex unknown (large) Footprints

  10. 1961 Moricetown, Bulkley Valley Dis, British Columbia

    Couple sitting at breakfast table watched an 8 foot, black, very heavy, erect creature with a flat face walk across a field and the road. Later saw 300 yards of deep prints in the field, 16 inches long.

    #1000061 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  11. Aug 1961 Prospect, Jackson Cty, Oregon

    Sidney L. Morse was driving a crummy home from a logging show when a creature came running "out of the slick leaf" towards him, to within 30 feet in front of him, then turned right and ran parallel to the…

    #1000285 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Sep 1961 Klamath Falls, Klamath Cty, Oregon

    Mel Jackson told Barbara Wasson in 1980 that he and another man were walking on a trail after a rain and saw five human-shaped tracks several inches longer than a size 10 1/2 boot in rain-spattered dust on the trail.…

    #1000290 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  13. Aug 1961 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    #1000340 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. 1961 Covelo, Mendecino Cty, California

    Track hunting north of Covelo, over a period of time found several different tracks, including the Bluff Creek "15-inch". This is far enough south of Bluff Creek to indicate a minor form of cold weather migration. Only one individual is…

    #1000344 one large, sex unknown

  15. Aug 1961 Hoopa, Humboldt, California

    Bob Wahlund was returning to work for the first time after firefighting at Red Cap. At worksite off Forest Service Rd. 10N02 near the South Fork of Mill Creek, there were 16-inch tracks going around a yarder and on up…

    #1000345 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  16. about 1961 Hyampom, Trinity Cty, California

    As a child, with his parents and three sisters, camped at an unimproved campsite being made by the forest service on the South Fork of the Trinity River near Hyampom. His father found a set of "perfect" footprints in a…

    #1000471 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. 1961 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    On opening the logging road above Pecwan in the spring, Bud Ryerson found Bigfoot tracks near the end of the road.

    #1000472 one large, sex unknown

  18. Sep 1961 Newhalem, Whatcom Cty, Washington

    Louis Styles said that he and Bud Leggatt were prospecting West of Ross Lake near the Canadian border, heading over the ridge towards Silver Creek from the head of Border Creek when the biggest bear he ever saw came over…

    #1000696 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. before 1961 Neah Bay, Clallam Cty, Washington

    Air Force man who formely lived on Makah Indian Reservation wrote to Sanderson concerning 18.5-inch tracks seen on a beach 8 miles in the backwoods.

    #1000702 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Sep 1961 Cumberland, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Bill Winnig and a friend had camped for several days on a sandbar at the head of Forbush Lake in the Puntledge Valley. As they were leaving Bill looked back and saw an animal walk on two legs out onto…

    #1001356 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  21. 1960's Agness, Curry Cty, Oregon

    #3 Footprints

  22. 1960 Albany, Linn Cty, Oregon

    #22 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Aug 1960 Albany, Benton Cty, Oregon

    #23 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. early 1960's Forest Grove, Washington Cty, Oregon

    #24 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  25. late 1960's Belknap Springs, Lane Cty, Oregon

    #32 one large, sex unknown Creature description