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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jan 1959 New Richmond, Clermont Cty, Ohio

    Truck driver said only that he saw a "hulking creature" climb from the Ohio River onto the shore, "I can't describe it. I've never seen anything like it before." However later that night across the river in Kentucky there was…

    #991281 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. Sep 1959 Knoxville, Knox Cty, Tennessee

    Earl Taylor saw a "monster" at his window. He went to the door, it ran. He got neighbour John Rosenbaum and the sat under a tree waiting for it to come back. They heard two loud thumps on Taylor's car,…

    #991846 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. 1959 Carroll Cty, Maryland

    Policeman on duty saw a Bigfoot-type creature cross a dirt road in front of his car and step over a barbed-wire fence. He yelled at it to halt and it turned and approached him. He fired at it with no…

    #991992 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. 1959 Whitehall, Washington Cty, New York

    Harry Diekel said his neighbour saw a bearlike creature on two legs. Bigfoot on the East Coast says a man saw a tall, hairy, man-like creature standing in a field.

    #992260 one, no description Creature description

  5. Jun 1959 Saltsburg, Indiana Cty, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia woman and her boyfriend, just graduated from Saltsburg High School, had spent the evening beside the Conemaugh River, on the Indiana County side, near the now-abandoned town of Livermore. Returning to their car at dusk they saw a 7-foot,…

    #992353 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Sep 1959 Enderby, North Okanagan Dis, British Columbia

    On fishing trip with husband, camped at south end of Hidden Lake, near Enderby, was picking up firewood by the lake when she felt she was being watched, looked up and saw a big, hair-covered biped. She backed away. Said…

    #1000014 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Mar 1959 Klemtu, Aristazabel Isl, British Columbia

    Lawrence Hopkins had shot a deer on Aristazabel Island and was sitting on the shore waiting to be picked up when he smelt a horrible smell, turned and saw a huge dark from right behind him in the underbrush. He…

    #1000056 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. 1959 Queen Charlotte City, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    File card only record, "Sasquatch tracks between city and cemetery."

    #1000083

  9. 1959 Clinton, Lillooet, British Columbia

    H. Dudeck told N.J. Dyck that in 1959 he was hunting in the Clinton-Lillooet area when he saw some massive legs covered with yellowish-brown hair protruding from behind a stump. He froze in his tracks for a few minutes, then…

    #1000227 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  10. Nov 1959 Dallas, Polk Cty, Oregon

    Hunting, found a set of 19 inch tracks in shallow old snow, 19 inches long, flat, 5 toes. Dog wouldn't follow them, although it would chase any other animal. (Maybe too old and/or cold)

    #1000284 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. Oct 1959 Tenmile, Douglas Cty, Oregon

    Walter Stork (or possibly Peck ?) and Wayne Johnson went to place where Walter had seen a strange animal three days before. They saw it down the hill from a ridge they were on, but it also saw them and…

    #1000286 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  12. Oct 1959 Tenmile, Douglas Cty, Oregon

    Walter Stork (Peck ?) out hunting, watched half a mile away across a foothill valley a sleeping creature that he first thought was a cow, then a bear, then it shifted into a human-like position with an arm propped on…

    #1000287 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Nov 1959 Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California

    Checking the Bluff Creek sandbar exactly a year after first finding the "15-inch" tracks there, Bob Titmus found a fresh set. At one point they indicated that the creature ducked under a log with only 3 1/2 foot clearance, leaving…

    #1000331 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. Dec 1959 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    Bob Wahlund, Howard Ames and Glen Moore saw flat, 5-toed, 16-inch tracks, very clear, in shallow new snow around a track loader parked at the junction of the Bluff Creek road and the Onion Mountain road.

    #1000332 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  15. Aug 1959 Weitchpec, Del Norte, California

    Bob Titmus, sasquatch hunting, found the "15-inch" track crossing the usual sand bar. Also seen by Art Long, Cottonwood, Calif.

    #1000333 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  16. Aug 1959 Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California

    Bob Titmus, sasquatch hunting, found "15-inch" tracks on Bluff Creek sandbar for the third time. Art Long, Cottonwood, Calif., also saw them. These were new, made since the tracks seen two weeks before.

    #1000334 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. Nov 1959 Weitchpec, Del Norte, California

    Bob Titmus looking for sasquatch tracks from car, saw tracks on Bluff Creek road that came down from a canyon and went up the road. They were 16-inch "Bigfoot" tracks, on the road for 150 yards.

    #1000335 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  18. 1959 Lewistown, Trinity Cty, California

    Huge human footprints were reported seen on a sandbar of the Trinity River above Deadwood Creek, going in and out of the water.

    #1000466 Footprints

  19. 1959 Albany, Linn Cty, Oregon

    Unnamed truck driver was driving over a field mear Dever-Conser (only Dever is on map) when what appeared to be a huge shaggy white gorilla came running alongside the cab and peered in the window at him. As the truck…

    #1000984 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Mar 1959 La Grande, Oregon

    Ray McFarland, Doug Holman and Leonard Knight were on a pleasure flight over the Wallowa Mountains when they saw near Horseshoe Lake (not on 1:250,000 map) a hairy half-man, half-beast tearing at the carcass of a small animal in the…

    #1001009 one, no description Creature description

  21. Oct 1959 Condon, Missoula Cty, Montana

    Roy W. Rye was hunting grizzlies Northeast of Seeley Lake and was following large tracks in the deep snow when he looked up and saw 20 yards away what he at first thought was a bear leaning on a fallen…

    #1001115 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Oct about 1959 Monticello, San Juan Cty, Utah

    John Paul Ingram and Bill Green were driving in the hills above Indian Creek, in a jeep with the top down, scouting for the opening of hunting season the following day. They saw a creature come out of the brush…

    #1001257 one small Creature description

  23. 1959 Jackson, Teton Cty, Wyoming

    Roy Consiglio told Henry Steck Jr. that when in bed in a tent somewhere in Yellowstone National Park he saw a huge, black hairy hand reach in under the side of the tent and pull a rolled blanket out.

    #1001267 one, no description Creature description

  24. 1960's Agness, Curry Cty, Oregon

    #3 Footprints

  25. 1960 Albany, Linn Cty, Oregon

    #22 one large, sex unknown Creature description