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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Sep 1969 Rossland, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Glen McAuley was hunting south of Rossland when he saw a dark brown, heavily built, hairy, upright, 7 to 8-foot creature walking with long steps for 200 yards across a meadow. Grass showed no tracks.

    #1000171 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. Nov 1970 Princeton, Allison Lake, British Columbia

    Stuart Syme, writing outdoors column, said that while grouse huntling in the hills west of Allison Lake he saw at the bottom of a gully a creature 5 feet tall, covered with long, straight, cinnamon brown hair. It had a…

    #1000172 one small Creature description

  3. Jul 1971 Houston, Highway 16 Dis, British Columbia

    Mrs. Byron Sheldon was in a trailer at their recreational property on Buck Flats Road north of Grizzly Lake, 18 miles south of Houston, after breakfast one day in July, 1971, when a creature she estimated to be 8 feet…

    #1000173 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. May 1971 Tappen, Shuswap Dis, British Columbia

    Mrs. Gordon Birkenhead, Don Mills, Ont. passed on a story told her by a man from Tappen B.C., that another man from Tappen and an Indian family had seen a sasquatch in the water in a little lake on the…

    #1000174 one, no description

  5. Jul 1971 Lake Louise, Crowsnest Pass, British Columbia

    #1000175 one large female Creature description

  6. Sep 1971 Princeton, Allison Pass, British Columbia

    Harvey Kirby was sitting in a parked truck, driver sleeping, at the roadside just past the highway equipment yard at Allison Pass when he noticed movement in the rear-view mirror. He turned and watched a sasquatch walk across the paved…

    #1000176 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. about 1972 Stewart, Portland Canal, British Columbia

    Guenter Schoening told Joel Hurd that while working at Granduc Mine near Stewart, he was told that an ore truck driver on a stormy, snowy day had seen a creature like a man but twice as large on the road…

    #1000177 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Jul 1972 Hope, Hope-Princeton Hwy, British Columbia

    F. Western Smith was looking for mountain goats on the cliff face just east of the big slide, with another man; saw a reddish brown figure come out of a cave about a thousand feet above the highway. It stood…

    #1000178 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Jul 1973 Enderby, Hunters Range, British Columbia

    Pete Nabe told Tom Steenburg that he and Brent Shoulty and Jeff Brocton, then in their early teens, were hunting with .22 rifles in the Hunters Range Northeast of Enderby. As they walked through a meadow they saw what they…

    #1000179 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Jan 1974 Jasper, Yellowhead Hwy, British Columbia

    Lucien Lacerte was driving west from Jasper, rounding a curve to the south in a long-grass clearing, when he saw two creatures about 200 feet ahead, one larger than the other, humanlike, black and hairy, striding very fast down the…

    #1000180 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Jul about 1974 Powell River, South Coast Dis, British Columbia

    Patrick Kennedy, then a teenager, was babysitting at an isolated house in Powell River in a wooded area back of the Yukon gravel pit. About 6 p.m. he heard something moving in the bush behind the house, then 15 minutes…

    #1000181 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Jul 1974 Mission City, Harrison Lake, British Columbia

    Wayne Jones, director of a camp for problem youths at Stokke Creek, a former logging camp site near the head of Harrison Lake, East side, said he was sitting alone at a campfire at 10 p.m. when an 8-foot, very…

    #1000182 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Sep 1974 Harrison Hot Springs, Sasquatch Park, British Columbia

    Sedro Wooley, Washington, woman stayed in car while her husband got out to look at "beaver ponds" with jumping trout in them that could be seen from the road near Hicks Lake. She saw a large erect creature in the…

    #1000183 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Oct 1974 Princeton, British Columbia

    Glen Boulier and his brother Alan were coming home form a three-mile jog round the airport in the early morning. As they approached the wooden bridge north of the town they saw a creature about 150 feet ahead cross the…

    #1000184 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Oct 1974 Mackenzie, North central B.C., British Columbia

    Barry Jones and his uncle Dean Jones were bear hunting in mountains when Barry saw what he thought was a black stump beside a tree about 600 feet away. He realized it was moving, and approached to within 200 feet,…

    #1000185 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. 1975 Natal, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Free Press story about 1976 incidents mentions that Joe Lastwick reported seeing a sasquatch "last year" near the bridge crossing the Fording River and the CNI road that leads to Grave Lake.

    #1000186 one, no description

  17. Jun 1975 Cherryville, Okanagan Dis, British Columbia

    Wilfred Morris, Cherryville, was walking home, in Cherryville, when a creature as tall as a man with someone on his shoulders crossed the road 10 feet in front of him, in four steps, and went up a high bank.

    #1000187 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. 1975 Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Julius Szego told Guy Phillips that he and his cousin Ed, 15, saw a 7' creature crouched at the edge of the water at Scott's (or Scutz) Falls, pulling out roots. Brownish black, mossy hair on body, no hair on…

    #1000188 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. Sep 1975 Kootenay Nat. Park, British Columbia

    Informant came to newspaper office and told Ron Eade that between Marble Canyon and Eisenhower Junction, in good light, he saw a 7' creature in a clearing about 15 feet from the trees. Was rusty tan colour, covered with hair,…

    #1000189 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Sep 1975 Colwood, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Teenagers reported to RCMP that on the evening of September 10, before dark, some of them had seen a dark, hairy creature, 8 to 12 feet tall, with reflecting yellow eyes, on the semi-open hillside above the E & N…

    #1000190 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Date unknown British Columbia

    See incident report 1000190

    #1000191 Creature description

  22. Oct 1975 Princeton, Allison Pass, British Columbia

    Frederick Kirkwood and his wife Millie were travelling East on the Hope-Princeton Highway at 2:30 a.m., two miles west of the Allison Pass works yard when they rounded a curve and saw a dark figure come up on the road…

    #1000192 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Oct 1975 Agassiz, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia

    C.L. Butler phoned radio show to say that while driving east in a heavy rainstorm about 6:45 p.m. October 17, 1975, he saw a strange animal run across the Lougheed Highway on Seabird Island three or four miles east of…

    #1000193 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Jan 1976 Victoria, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Harvey Maser was a passenger in a car driven by Jack Phelps, on Metchosin Road near Duke Road about 6:25 a.m., when their lights hit about 100 feet ahead a creature estimated 8 to 9 feet tall walking beside the…

    #1000194 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Apr 1976 Natal, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    In coal mining area, partsman for a private contractor who refused to have his name publicized said that near Indian Prairie he saw a creature resembling a sasquatch, of ape-like proportions, brown, seven feet tall. When it saw him it…

    #1000195 one large, sex unknown Creature description