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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Sep 1969 Canmore, Ribbon Creek, Alberta

    #1001290 one large female Creature description Footprints

  2. about 1971 Banff, Kicking Horse Pas, Alberta

    Motel owner in Golden overheard telling other guests that on a trip home from Calgary the previous winter she and her son stopped because their car boiled over going up the Kicking Horse Pass, and when they turned on the…

    #1001291 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Jul 1971 Banff, Bow Val, Alberta

    Dick Lauder and a companion driving on the edge of the mountains East of Banff saw at the bottom of a canyon half a mile away a moose-sized bipedal animal that walked on two legs along a stream bed. When…

    #1001292 one large, sex unknown

  4. Jun 1972 Nordegg, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Location is unclear. Says near Nordegg and near Abraham Lake, but on a forestry road 20 miles West of Hwy. 11. No apparent place for a forestry road near the lake. Location used is a guess that it had to…

    #1001293 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. 1972 Rocky Mountain House, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Mrs. Robert Burton picking berries near her home with her daughter, 12, and a youth, 17, in a valley "full of tag alders" saw about 200 feet away the head and shoulders of a man covered with hair except on…

    #1001294 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Oct 1974 Medicine Hat, Seven Persons Creek, Alberta

    "Observer" sent Leonard Edvardson sketches made the same evening of what was seen in Kin Coolee near Medicine Hat. The accompanying letters do not say so but the sketches clearly indicate a female carrying an infant. The creature was estimated…

    #1001295 female and small Creature description

  7. Dec 1974 Medicine Hat, Seven Persons Creek, Alberta

    Leonard Edvardson states that a man in Seven Persons reported seeing an upright creature 6 to 7 feet high by full moonlight about 3 a.m. early in December, and that tracks were later found in the ice of Seven Persons…

    #1001296 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  8. May 1974 Nordegg, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Ron Gummow was driving East on the David Thompson Highway near Abraham Lake when he rounded a curve and encountered two erect, brown-haired creatures 12 feet tall. He stopped about 30 feet from them as they stared at his car,…

    #1001297 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Jun 1974 Calgary, Bragg Creek, Alberta

    Carl Melnyk was sitting on the high bank of the Elbow River in Bragg Creek provincial campground when he noticed an animal in the trees 100 feet West, where Bragg Creek joins the river. He thought it was an elk…

    #1001298 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Oct 1975 Grande Prairie, Peace River Dis, Alberta

    Bob Moody, a trapper of 45 years experience,. was driving South from Woking on Hwy 2 about 11 miles from Sexsmith when he saw three creatures, one large and two small, at the edge of the trees beside his lane…

    #1001299 other group of large and small Creature description Footprints

  11. Nov 1975 Sundre, Alberta

    Don Kenney was moose hunting in early November, saw a bull standing broadside in a swamp 400 yards North of him, shot and knocked it down. Gun jammed, moose got up and trotted into trees to the Northeast. Into the…

    #1001300 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Aug 1976 Nordegg, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Shelley Sadoway, 12, in family car on vacation, just past Nordegg family saw half a mile away five or six upright, black creatures, covered with long hair, walking across the road, tallest first. Height range estimated 6 feet to 4…

    #1001301 other group of large and small Creature description

  13. Sep 1976 Rocky Mountain House, Clearwater River, Alberta

    Gary Schmidt and Peter Garyall were hunting grouse along a cutline Southwest of Caroline when Garyall, a Greek immigrant, called Schmidt out of the bush, asking "Have you got apes up in the mountains?" Schmidt came into the open and…

    #1001302 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Oct 1976 Athabaska, Alberta

    Daryl Lange, 11, and Paul Schlier, about 18, walking on a gravel road about 10 miles East of Rochester and a mile North of the Rochester-Newbrook road, saw a creature 7 to 8 feet tall, black or dark brown, ambling…

    #1001303 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  15. 1977 Banff, Banff National Par, Alberta

    Riding in car with family, just past Banff on Hwy. 1, above Vermillion Lakes, Rae Shoeman, 12, saw black, upright creature striding across lake, leaving footprint marks, not ski tracks. Est. 8 to 10 feet, 200 yards away. In view…

    #1001304 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. Jul 1977 Vegreville, Lac Bellevue, Alberta

    Legion members and families camping at Lac Bellevue heard breaking trees and movement in underbrush during the night, and in the morning found footprints 16 inches long and 9 inches wide.

    #1001305 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. Dec 1977 Medicine Hat, Manyberries, Alberta

    Thelma and Vern Dunlop found in soft shallow snow beside an end wall of the railway station at Manyberries, where they lived, tracks 18.5 inches long and 8 inches wide. Pace length in photo appears proportionate to size, but by…

    #1001306 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  18. Dec 1977 Edmonton, Abee, Alberta

    Andy Zachary found tracks in the snow around the back of his general store in Abee, two feet long and with a 7-foot stride, some showing toe imprints. Corp. Richard Goodall and trapper Nick Smalarchuk said that in more firm…

    #1001307 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. Jun 1978 Bellevue, Crows Nest Pas, Alberta

    Robert Morin, 13, was setting gopher traps when he found a huge humanlike track on a mound near a gopher hole. He called the Blairmore Pass Herald and staff members took photos and saw two sizes of prints, one 18"…

    #1001308 two large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Nov 1978 Calgary, Bearspaw, Alberta

    Mother and son at home in Bearspaw, dog making a fuss, one or other (they both claim the honour) was first to see a black creature 6 or 7 feet tall walking towards the river, which was down a steep…

    #1001309 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Jun 1979 Blairmore, Beaver Mines Lake, Alberta

    Students from H.T. Coutts school on field trip to Beaver Mines Lake, John Quinlan and Steven Petek found 15" tracks on the lakeshore, with widely splayed toes measuring 9" across. Cast made.

    #1001310 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  22. Oct 1980 Stettler, Castor, Alberta

    Mrs. Kaye Taylor writes that tracks were found just East of Castor, appearing from the side of a gravel road close to the bridge over a narrow, water-filled coulee. They went Northwest across a plowed field and a garden, back…

    #1001311 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. May 1983 Canmore, Old Fort Creek, Alberta

    Willis and Elana Fox were driving East on Hwy 1A and had just entered the bridge over Old Fort Creek when a large, dark brown, bipedal creature stepped onto the road at the other end of the bridge, turned to…

    #1001314 one large, sex unknown Creature description