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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 1976 Wycliffe, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Gale Shay, Nelson, described on video seeing a huge sasquatch running across a field 100 yards from her home, when she lived in the East Kootenays in 1976. She said the horses panicked and galloped off but the sasquatch loped…

    #1000196 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. Sep 1976 Kimberley, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Mickey McLelland, a Kimberley fireman, was one of several witnesses who saw a creature in a field at Wycliffe Prairie near the Kimberley Trap and Ski Club. He said it was seven feet tall, black, with a tan-coloured chest, long-armed.…

    #1000197 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Sep 1976 Wycliffe, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Barbara Pretula saw a creature behind her store in Wycliffe, got a camera and took one flashbulb picture of it, which caused it to run off into woods. Said it was 6 to 7 feet high, black, with a light-coloured…

    #1000198 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Sep 1976 Kimberley, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Trudy and Rene Phillips, Kimberley, and their sister Sabrina Lucas, 19, Cranbrook, were driving on a Hydro right of way near Hwy. 93 northeast of Kimberley by the airport when they saw what they though was a burnt stump start…

    #1000199 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Nov 1976 New Masset, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    Very brief story says sasquatch, or gogeet, seen twice in three weeks at same place on highway between Haida and New Masset. This sighting by Reggie Clayton. Description 8 feet tall, long dark hair all over body and face.

    #1000200 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Dec 1976 New Masset, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    Observer reports that taxi driver Pat Widen and passenger Paul Williams saw an 8 foot sasquatch with long dark hair covering body and face on the road between Haida and New Masset "two weeks ago", ie about Dec. 5, at…

    #1000201 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Dec 1976 Bella Coola, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia

    George and Doris Anderson driving to wharf at 11 p.m., Doris saw large manlike beast with body covered with long dark hair and a light-coloured chest beside the road. It crossed the road and went up the sidehill. George did…

    #1000202 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. about 1977 Mission, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia

    Brad Trent said that his son, then 12, saw a creature walk upright below the timberline of a logged area about 300 yards away across the Norrish Creek valley (almost canyon steep). He watched it walk erect for about 70…

    #1000203 one large, sex unknown

  9. 1979 Nelson, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Brent Hastings hiking in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park when he saw what he thought was a man walk upright across the base of the glacier, a long way off. Later found that the distance covered was far too great for…

    #1000204 one large, sex unknown

  10. Jun 1979 Salmon Arm, Shuswap Dis, British Columbia

    Jon Clark, 15-year-old Chase Jr. Secondary student was walking towards his school bus stop near Pillar Lake when he saw a creature standing in the shadow of trees by the road. It was on its hind legs, hunched over, two…

    #1000205 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Jul 1979 Hope, Coquihalla Valley, British Columbia

    Peter Stewart, Westcoast Transmission employee, heard 3rd hand that an Indian from Kamloops named Darwin John had seen and fled from "a large hairy object 10 feet tall" that he encountered while clearing trees for a pipeline right of way…

    #1000206 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Jul 1979 Port Alberni, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Claude and Dorothy Martin, Nanaimo, were driving a truck over the "hump" between Port Alberni and Parksville, and stopped for water at a little creek. There they saw a creature standing upright like a human, eyes gleaming orange in the…

    #1000207 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. May 1980 Vavenby, Shuswap Dis, British Columbia

    Ken Karateew was flying south along the East shore of the north half of Adams Lake, looking for a possible farm site in an area with no roads. From about 150 feet up he saw a figure stooped over at…

    #1000208 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Jul 1980 Cumberland, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    #1000209 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Dec 1980 Cumberland, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    #1000210 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. Dec 1980 Agassiz, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia

    Gill Gursewak, 18, was driving slowly in fog on Hwy 7 on Woodside Mountain, made out a huge faint shape moving slowly in the fog which he identified as a sasquatch. Reported to police, who said he could not give…

    #1000211 one large, sex unknown

  17. 1980 to 1981 Valemont, Yellowhead Hwy, British Columbia

    Man phoning Grover Krantz on B.C. radio show in 1982 (Krantz may have name) said that on the Yellowhead Highway near Valemont in the fall of 1982 he rounded a bend and saw three creatures on the left side of…

    #1000212 other group of large and small Creature description Footprints

  18. 1981 Kaslo, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Jim Wallington phoned John Green, said he had seen a sasquatch (presume hairy) two miles from Kaslo (presume road from Nelson) while driving into town about 11:15 p.m. in 1981. It came across the road on two legs close to…

    #1000213 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. about 1982 Golden, Selkirk Mtns, British Columbia

    Jim Wallington, Kaslo, says a friend of his had a sasquatch shake the back of his truck about 1982 outside Golden.

    #1000214 one, no description Creature description

  20. Nov 1981 Squamish, British Columbia

    #1000215 one, no description Creature description

  21. Jan 1982 Saanichton, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Vance Webster, 13, Tony Gruber, 9, and Larry Lambert, 12, were playing in a patch of woods when they encountered a creature they described as 10 feet high with hairy arms and legs. They ran, but reported to police, who…

    #1000216 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Jun 1982 Golden, Glacier Nat. Park, British Columbia

    Frances Rand was on her way to Calgary by train, in Glacier National Park, going very slowly (so presume on climb up Illicilliwaet River valley) saw sitting on a fallen log at the edge of dense forest a creature estimated…

    #1000217 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 1983 Parksville, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Ray Norbert was hunting late in the season, at dusk but still with good visibility, and was in a meadow East of the Island Highway, when he heard a crashing in the forest on the far side of the field,…

    #1000218 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Aug 1983 Nanaimo, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Gary Hurtig said he and some friends were shooting at apples with pellet guns in an area that was once a park/zoo of some sort. He walked off by himself and was leaning against a tree when someting moved 12…

    #1000219 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Mar about 1985 Mission, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia

    Brad Trent was driving on the west side of Norrish Creek canyon about 4 p.m. on a bright spring day when he saw in a clearing across the canyon about 100 yards away an erect creature walking away from him…

    #1000220 one large, sex unknown Creature description