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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…
- about 1881 Colorado
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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.
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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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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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1890's
Raleigh, Newfoundland and Labrador
William Decker, wintering in Pistolet Bay in the 1890's, went inland with his muzzle-loader, and as he reached a marsh about 300 yards across heard a loud and frightening roar, turned and saw a huge creature coming at him with…
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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…
- Apr 1891 Rumsey, Yolo Cty, California
- May 1891 Rumsey, Yolo Cty, California
- May 1891 Rumsey, Yolo Cty, California
- Jun 1891 Rumsey, Yolo Cty, California
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Oct 1891
Gladwin Cty, Michigan
George Frost and W.W. Vivian reported seeing a wild man near the Tittabawassee River. Vivian set his bulldog on the creature and it killed the dog with a stroke of its monstrous hand. Jumps were measured 20 to 23 feet.
- Nov 1892 Montana
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1892
Colebrook, Litchfield Cty, Connecticut
Incidents said to have taken place between Winsted, Conn, and Sandisfield, MA. A tall hairy creature was seen stealing chickens and a rabbit, and a man fired at it with a shotgun and birdshot, but did not faze it. Footprints…
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1894
Norfolk, Litchfield Cty, Connecticut
A 6.5 foot man jumped out of a tree and chased a man. The creature was tracked to a nearby mountain where it was observer entering a hole. Chains were stretched across the entrance but they were broken that night.
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Jan 1894
Dover, Morris Cty, New Jersey
Mike Dean, Lizzie Guscott, Katie Griffin, Bertha Heatig, Bill Dean, William Mullen and others saw a bearded, 6-foot, very hairy 'wildman' carrying a club, near Dover.
- Aug 1895 Colebrook, Litchfield Cty, Connecticut
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Aug 1895
Colebrook, Litchfield Cty, Connecticut
John G. Hall was driving the stage between Winsted, CN, and Sandisfield, MA, when he saw an animal standing by the road at Colebrook. He stopped and drew his pistol. The animal ran across the road on all fours, then…
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Jul 1895
Margaretville, Delaware Cty, New York
Peter Thomas was driving a team on a lonely road when a "wild-eyed man or ape" jumped from the underbrush into the middle of the road, stood in the middle of the road and made "a raucous, inarticulate cry", then…
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Jul 1895
Margaretville, Delaware Cty, New York
John Cook claimed he was attacked and thrown by "a ferocious apelike being" after shooting and apparently hitting it. He said it was "about 7 feet tall, entirely nude, covered with black hair, with a long beard and with teeth…
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Apr 1897
Lagrange, Lagrange Cty, Indiana
Adam Gardner and Ed Swinchart, well-known farmers, encountered a man-sized creature covered with hair, walking on two legs. Gardner shot and thinks he lamed it. It started to run on hind legs, then bounded on all fours. There had been…
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May 1897
Rome, Adams Cty, Ohio
Wild man reported for weeks around Rome. Two men cutting timber a few miles from Rome able to chase it "into his supposed retreat among the cliffs." No indication whether it attacked or threatened them first. One man named Charles,…
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1899
Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
Prospectors Robbins and Benson were developing a "gold ledge" above a spring beyond the head of Star Gulch on the South Fork of the Sixes River. Returning from lunch by the spring they looked back and saw a creature, big,…