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Date unknown
Cougar, Cowlitz Cty, Washington
According to Ed Killam, Don Autry, at his home between the Reece store and Jack's Sporting Goods near Cougar, had left the head and vicera of a deer in a crate on his back porch. These were taken, and sasquatch…
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1972
Stevens Pass, Washington
Mack Hamilton says only "in Stevens Pass I saw another, but this one was all black," after previously describing a sighting of a creature with red hair that looked like an orangutan (no entry, as no place or date given,…
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before 1840
Washington
Elkanah Walker was one of the members of the original Whitman Mission. He said of the Spokane Indians: "They believe in the existence of a race of giants which inhabit a certain mountain off to the West of us. This…
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before 1847
Vancouver, Mt. St. Helens, Washington
Paul Kane wrote in his journal that the Indians told him Mt. St. Helens was inhabited by beings of a different species who are cannibals. One man was said to have escaped when his companion was eaten by the "Scoocooms."
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before 1820
Chehalis, Lewis Cty, Washington
Agnes Louise Eliot said that before the European settlers came "a big Skookum or hairy man drove all the Indians away that were living on the Pe Ell Prairie and the Indians never went back there to live until after…
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before 1970
Tacoma, Pierce Cty, Washington
Diane Loidhamer was parked with fiance on road on East side of Lake Tapps when they were disturbed by noises outside the car. The drove down the road and then turned to go back. Near the place where they had…
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1880
near Br. Col border, Washington
Rita Swift said that her great-grandfather George Fletcher Koon told her in 1947 (well before sasquatch descriptions were common) that when he was employed on a railroad the train hit and killed a "seven-foot-tall gorilla" that "stunk awful" and that…
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1890
Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington
James Spencer tells of seeing a sasquatch twice in the Upper Lewis River area while trapping. The first time it sprang into a tree when two dogs barked at it, then it broke off huge limbs and beat the dogs.…
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1900
Huntsville, Columbia Cty, Washington
Gordon Bateman told Vance Orchard that his mother, Fren Corbett Bateman, came to Huntsville in 1892 when her father bought the old flour mill there, and one day in 1900 she went out to the garden behind the house, near…
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1912
Oakville, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
One night in the spring of 1933 Callie Lund heard a very loud noise on the hill behind her home, on a hillside above the Chehalis River valley. A similar noise answered from another hill. She woke her mother, who…
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before 1900
Oakville, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Callie Lund was told by old Chief Pike Ben that he had seen a sasquatch on a large island between the Chehalis River and the Black River when he was a young man. He said his people had seen many…
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1917
Woodland, Clark Cty, Washington
Abel Leionen came to Peter Niemi's home near Woodland and told him that while walking past Shoemaker Hill he came face to face with a hairy animal at a spring. It was not a bear, more like an ape, with…
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Jul 1928
Olympia, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
The two accounts differ, and I have them only in copied-out form. Fate sets the incident Northeast of Olympia, which would put it almost in Seattle; spells one witness' name "Larzazana", and does not give the other name. It also…
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Jun 1928
Port Angeles, Clallem Cty, Washington
Mrs. Moore was on a camping trip at Agate Beach with her husband and his mother, two sisters and three-year-old brother. At night something stepped on the running board of their car where the mother-in-law and child were sleeping. Next…
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Oct 1930
Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington
Spirit Lake Ranger station in 1963 had an "old document" showing a barefoot track, 16" by 6", found in a dry gulch two miles below Spirit Lake.
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about 1937
Enumclaw, King Cty, Washington
Anonymous woman waiting in car parked on narrow dirt road, felt someone watching, saw creature with hairy body of an animal but face of a teen-aged boy. Looked at her intently, harmless, intelligent, almost friendly or hopeful. Then it scampered…
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Oct 1949
Leadpoint, Stevens Cty, Washington
Ben Thompson said he saw a very large sasquatch at Leadpoint, watching it through a scope at 800 to 1000 yards, and tried to put his bear dogs on its trail, but they declined. It was heading West over the…
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1952
Glacier, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Rod Pullar says that in 1952 snow rangers from Glacier saw big human-type footprints coming staight down off Mt. Hermet and around the Mt. Baker ski area. I have no map showing Mt. Hermet, but there is a 6285-foot bump…
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1952
Carson, Skamania Cty, Washington
Deputy Sheriff Oliver Potter was fishing "way back" up the Wind River when he heard a noise and saw a grey, erect animal, 7.5 to 8 ft., shaped like a human, walking rapidly away. It left tracks in the sand,…
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Aug 1953
Telma, Chelan Cty, Washington
Clarence Fox and a friend hiking out through the canyon of the Napeequa River, generally considered impassable--12 miles took 3 days. One morning woke to find huge tracks in the gravel coming up to the opposite side of their fire,…
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about 1954
Wenatchee, Kittitas Cty, Washington
Clarence Fox was one of several people who saw a single giant humanlike track on a road on Table Mountain. At the time thought it a prank.
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about 1956
Telma, Chelan Cty, Washington
Zarol Johnson wrote in 1966 that "some 10 years ago in the rough and remote valley of the North Fork of the White River above Lake Wentatchee" he found tracks on a sand bar that were 16 inches long and…
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1953
Pomeroy, Garfield Cty, Washington
David Strevy, about 9, was sleeping in the bed of a truck with an older brother while family was camping at Teals Forest Camp in the Blue Mountains above Pomeroy. One morning the truck began to shake and he got…
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about 1955
Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington
Paul McGuire was with a group of about 10 young boys from a YMCA camp at Spirit Lake on Mount St. Helens who hiked to Coldwater Lookout, above and West of St. Helens Lake. On the way down, at the…
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about 1957
Amboy, Clark Cty, Washington
Arlene Arp wrote that on the way home from Cougar, during or after climbing a large hill before Amboy, as she rounded a curve headlights picked up "the biggest bear I ever saw". Then realized it was not a bear.…