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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jun 1956 Weed, Siskiyou Cty, California

    Writer (he she?) stopped for a rest about 3 a.m. driving from Weed to Macdoel, and while sitting on the fender heard someone walking down the middle of the road, so got in the car and turned on the lights.…

    #1000457 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. Aug 1956 Weed, Siskiyou Cty, California

    Mrs. Jack Pomray says "they" saw what appeared to be a bear run across the road on two legs taking big steps.

    #1000459 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. 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…

    #1000691 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  4. Jul 1956 Idaho

    Melvin Givens would not give a location, claiming to have had more contacts with Bigfoot in the same area. He said he saw an 8-foot, very heavy male creature, covered with red hair, come out of the bush onto a…

    #1001181 one large male Creature description Footprints

  5. Aug 1956 Ketchikan, Ketchikan Cty, Alaska

    Bob Everett was doing Department of Fish and Game fisheries survey work with a local halibut boat out of Ketchikan. Getting ready to anchor for the night, the skipper pointed out a "bear" sitting on his rump. The bear then…

    #1001274 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  6. 1955 The Dalles, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    #11 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  7. about 1955 Seattle, King Cty, Washington

    #70 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. about 1955 British Columbia

    #248 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Aug 1955 Bronwood, Terrel Cty, Georgia

    Joseph Whaley was clearing brush for the Georgia forestry department when a strange creature came towards him. He swung his blade against its paws and chest, and ran for his jeep. The creature hit him on the left shoulder, tearing…

    #991730 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  10. Jul 1955 Edison, Calhoun Cty, Georgia

    Tant King was mowing a pasture on Wayne Dozier's Three Springs Ranch when he saw a little naked hairy man, about 3.5 feet high, walk out of the woods and walk along the edge of a fence. He did not…

    #991731 one small Creature description Footprints

  11. Jul 1955 Edison, Calhoun Cty, Georgia

    Mrs. Alberta Donnell and son Toby watched a 3.5 foot tall hairy manlike creature walking in a field on Three Springs Ranch. Bigfoot on the East Coast has a second entry, identical except that the sighting is attributed only to…

    #991732 one small Creature description Footprints

  12. Oct 1955 Tete Jaune Cache, Mica Mountain, British Columbia

    William Roe was about to enter clearing when he saw creature emerging from brush on other side. It came across very close to him and squatted down to eat leaves from a bush, using hands and lips to strip them…

    #1000011 one large female Creature description

  13. 1955 to 1956 Paskenta, Tehama Cty, California

    Winnifred Bates went to see tracks found the previous day on (or near) the road to Covelo. There was supposed to have been a grader tire rammed down over a stump and other items disturbed, but no evidence of this…

    #1000324 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. 1955 Garberville, Humboldt, California

    Jim Turner said he and others, including his uncle, were fleeing a forest fire that they had been fighting when they came over a ridge and saw a creature 8 to 9 feet tall standing there. He passed within 30…

    #1000456 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 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…

    #1000693 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. 1954 Coos Cty, Oregon

    #411 one, no description Creature description

  17. 1954 Andover, Ashtabula Cty, Ohio

    Operating Deans' Boat Landing at Padanaram (not on map) saw a monster walk in three feet of water on its hind legs, having come out of the brush, and heading for a small island, presumably in Pymatuning Lake.

    #991280 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Jul 1954 Latrobe, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania

    Unnamed witness saw a hairy, heavy, 7-foot creature moving towards a wooded area. Footprints and smashed rows were found in a nearby corn field.

    #992350 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. Jul 1954 Mammoth Lakes, Mona Cty, California

    Phillis Lord working as hostess at guest lodge at Mammoth, in a car with seven other young people driving Mammoth Road towards Highway 395, creature ran on road from South and stood staring in the headlights three or four car…

    #1000454 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. 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.

    #1000690 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. Aug 1954 Coleman, Crowsnest Pas, Alberta

    Lidio Orlando was hunting rabbits between Coleman and Blairmore, about a half mile Northeast of Hwy. 3. At about 4 p.m. he saw a tall black creature walking towards him about 400 yards away. It approached, walking faster than a…

    #1001285 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. about 1953 Lawrenceville, Lawrence Cty, Illinois

    Five teenagers driving to a gravel pit to swim when creature started across the gravel road, stopped in the headlights and stared at the car, then went on across the road and crashed into the woods. Arms hung below knee.…

    #991010 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 1953 Medinah, Du Page Cty, Illinois

    Bruce Houdek and Dean Refram, looking for golf balls in densely wooded area on golf course, when creature large, hairy, upright creature stood up in front of them (my notes of phone call say 50 feet away, Wayne's tape transcript…

    #991011 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Aug 1953 Lombard, Cecil Cty, Maryland

    While turning a manure pile behind his mushroom house, H.S. Osborne saw a gorilla-like creature standing at the edge of his cornfield 25 feet away.

    #991983 one, no description Creature description

  25. Aug 1953 Lombard, Cecil Cty, Maryland

    Ray Potter and H.S. Osborne saw a 6-foot creature covered with brownish hair with a pink ring around its face, looking at them over a fence on Osborne's farm.

    #991984 one large, sex unknown Creature description