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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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1890's
Brookings, Curry Cty, Oregon
Ivan Sanderson gives no source for this story, which refers to tracks of enormous, naked human feet passing back and forth from the foredsts to the seashore at the mouth of the Chetko River, and tells of two watchmen being…
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Dec 1885
Lebanon, Linn Cty, Oregon
Mr. Fitzgerald and others, hunting near Bald Peter in the Cascades, approached within a few yards of a "wild man" covered with hair, which was eating a deer. When it saw him it fled. Isaac Banty said to have seen…
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Jun 1884
Yale, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
This story in the Victoria Colonist, July 3, 1884, was presented as an apparently-serious dispatch from a correspondent at Yale. In the early 60's August Castle, an Indian at Yale, said he remembered the incident although he had not seen…
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1883
Pembroke, Ontario
A wild man 8 feet high, covered with black hair, said to live on Pretty's Island (not on modern maps) near Pembroke, Ontario. When two raftsmen went looking for him one had his arm broken by the giant.
- about 1881 Colorado
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1880's
Red Bay, Franklin Cty, Alabama
Jade Davis, fishing in Bear Creek at the lower end of the big bluff near where the Haithcock branch enters, became aware of being watched, turned and saw a creature that looked like a man covered with reddish brown hair,…
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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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Feb 1876
San Diego, San Diego Cty, California
L.T.H. writes that he and Turner Helm were prospecting 10 miles East of Warner's Ranch and that Helm told him he had heard a whistle, then saw a creature sitting on a boulder 15 or 20 paces from him. It…
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1875
Austin, Travis Cty, Texas
Wild boy seen wallowing in a shallow pond, ran a mile before men on horses lassooed him, then fought until overpowered and tied. Covered with hair about 4 inches long, about the size of a 12-year-old. Can't talk. Follows captor…
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about 1875
Moncton, New Brunswick
Rev. A. Fulton Johnson, born in 1866, told his son Ken Johnson that when he was a boy living near Moncton there was a creature that used to be seen at the edge of the woods near their home, very…
- Sep 1870 Danville, Contra Costa Cty, California
- Sep 1870 anville, Contra Costa Cty, California
- 1870's Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
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Sep 1870
Newman, Stanislaus Cty, California
Story says that F.J. Hildreth and Samuel De Groot, of Washington Corners (now Irvington, part of Fremont, Cal.) found humanlike footprints with larger toes while hunting on Orestimba Creek, and later saw what they were sure was gorillas. Not enough…
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1870's
Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
After a miner was beaten to death with a 4-pound rock and bear hounds were frightened of what they were following, 'Dog' Elgin saw beside the South Fork of the Sixes River (at Bear Pan Flat, at Alder Creek--not on…
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1869
Arcadia Valley, Crawford Cty, Kansas
Letter tells of repeated sightings of a wild man or gorilla which frightened the women and children and pulled down fences. The men could not catch and would not shoot, it was so close to human form. It was usually…
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Jun 1869
Gallipolis, Gallia Cty, Ohio
Wild man, naked, hair-covered, gigantic in height, "eyes start from their sockets" reported to haunt woods near Gallipolis. One story, he attacked a man riding in a carriage, hurling him to the earth, where they struggled until the man's daughter…
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1869
Newman, Stanislaus Cty, California
Anonymous writer said he was camped while hunting about 20 miles south of Grayson, and had noticed several times that something was disturbing his fire. Searching he found in damp sand about 300 yards off the print of a barefoot…
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before 1860
Independence, Inyo Cty, California
Tracks 18" by 6" turned up in the mornings sometimes in the mining towns of San Carlos, Bend City and Chrysopolis, shortly before the mines gave out and the towns were abandoned in the mid 1800's. These towns were on…
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Mar 1851
Paragould, Greene Cty, Arkansas
Mr. Hamilton and a friend while hunting saw a drove of cattle go by in apparent alarm, then saw running behind them a gigantic creature in the likeness of a man, body covered with hair, head with long locks that…
- 1850's Mount Shasta, Siskiyou Cty, California
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May 1849
Eagletown, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma
One-Eye Bascom said to have seen a 'strange critter' in the swamps, with a description that fits Bigfoot.
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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 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…