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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 1947 Missouri

    Glenn Payne said he heard from a cousin, Martin Burford, that coon hunters had chased a thing that had been killing sheep and goats, but it killed the dogs. Payne chased it with his "hog dogs" and saw in lights…

    #991254 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. May 1966 St. Joseph, Buchanan Cty, Missouri

    Larry Lawhon, then a teenager, went with friends to a place where another youth was reported to have bumped into a hairy creature on a roadway in the woods at the northern edge of Krug Park in the northern part…

    #991255 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  3. Aug 1968 Kinloch, St. Louis Cty, Missouri

    Woman said an animal grabbed her 4-year-old nephew in her backyard, she saw it and screamed and the dog went after it, it dropped the boy and fled into the woods. She said it looked like a bear. The boy…

    #991256 one, no description Creature description

  4. 1980 Frankford, Pike Cty, Missouri

    Letter regarding Missouri sasquatch sightings mentions one on the edge of Frankford. No other information.

    #991257 one, no description Creature description

  5. Jul 1971 Busch, Pike Cty, Missouri

    Joan Mills and Mary Ryan driving on Highway 29 north of Louisian turned off on dirt road for a picnic lunch, then smelled something awful and saw a half-man half-ape creature standing in the weeds staring at them. It looked…

    #991258 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Jun 1972 Troy, Lincoln Cty, Missouri

    Fishermen saw sasquatch wade the Cuivre River near Cuivre State Park and then walk along the bank towards them.

    #991259 one, no description Creature description

  7. Jul 1972 Louisiana, Pike Cty, Missouri

    This brief incident and a swirl of vague follow-up reports started a wave of publicity for "Momo, the Missouri monster." Apparent embellishments had the creature with a bleeding dead dog in its arms, and later a dog or sheep in…

    #991260 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Jul 1972 New Haven, Warren Cty, Missouri

    Daughter of Leonard Strubberg, driving in early morning, saw a huge, silver-grey sasquatch walking in a field.

    #991261 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Jul 1972 O'Fallon, St. Charles Cty, Missouri

    Two teenage girls saw bigfoot walking at the edge of a wooded area near sundown.

    #991262 one, no description Creature description

  10. 1975 to 1976 Strafford, Greene Cty, Missouri

    Keith Sanducci and Tom Taylor were two boys who published a newsletter in 1979. David Comstock told them he was riding a dirt bike in deep woods at Strafford when he saw an apelike creature looking at him. He said…

    #991263 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. May 1977 Pacific, Franklin Cty, Missouri

    Wife said her husband saw the creature while driving home from work about 8.30 p.m., where Denton Road crosses Brush Creek. It got out of the creek to walk across the road, assumed too tall to go under the bridge.…

    #991264 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Oct 1975 Pacific, Franklin Cty, Missouri

    Wife said her husband saw the creature where Denton Road crosses Brush Creek, same place he saw a larger creaturein 1977 (1264).

    #991265 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Sep 1982 Branson, Taney Cty, Missouri

    Checking traps in woods by creek around midnight, Branson man said he saw a large hairy creature with an awful smell bent over the creek bank catching and eating crawfish. He was sure it was not a man or a…

    #991266 one, no description Creature description

  14. Dec 1959 Ravenna, Buffalo Cty, Nebraska

    Billy Hauschild was hunting on his grandmother's farm when he saw a creature near a hill. He described it as upright walking, white fur, black face and hands. Carol Craig saw a similar creature later the same evening nearby at…

    #991267 one, no description Creature description

  15. Jul 1972 Gering, Scotts Bluffs Cty, Nebraska

    Three brief reports combined in this entry. One woman said she saw the creature prowling in her back yard, another saw it peering into her house, and a neighbour shot at a similar object with a 12-guage shotgun. Police found…

    #991268 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  16. Aug 1974 Oakland, Burt Cty, Nebraska

    Connie Johnson, Cheryl Rupert and their younger brothers, out walking, saw a huge, shaggy, gorilla-like andimal moving towrds them about 75 feet away. It was making a screeching noise. One of the boys threw a firecracker at it, and it…

    #991269 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1980 Lincoln, Lancaster Cty, Nebraska

    Unnamed motorcyclist said creature ran across the street near 26th and Fairfield in north Lincoln, so close he had to swerve to avoid hitting it. Salt Creek is nearby. Site is at edge of town, but factories and houses are…

    #991270 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Jun 1986 Macy, Thurston Cty, Nebraska

    Tim Hawks, 20, found tracks by the house where he lives with his grandparents, Francis and Angeline Parker, on Omaha Indian Reservation. Policeman Milton Miller measured them, but could not find where they came from or went to.

    #991271 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. early 1900's Kildeer, Dunn Cty, North Dakota

    Oldtimers told Myrtle Paschen that shortly after the turn of the century a sleigh full of people were close to the Kildeer Mountains (not on map) when a large gorilla-type thing ran towards them, made a noise, turned and left.…

    #991272 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  20. Sep 1977 Cannon Ball, Sioux Cty, North Dakota

    Paul Monzelowski and son tending farm on north side of Cannonball River, saw big, black animal on south side of river that ran faster than a man could run, on its hind legs, going downstream (east) then crossing to the…

    #991273 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. 1970's North Dakota

    Ron Brienzo thinks he saw a sasquatch in North Dakota along the Canadian border after he followed 21-inch footprints sunk more than an inch into frozen ground. He wrecked a snowmobile trying to catch up to the dark, shaggy, upright…

    #991274 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  22. Oct 1979 Werner, Dunn Cty, North Dakota

    Dunn County men said that as they rounded a curve a mile south of Werner at 7 p.m., headlights shone on dark animal standing at the road edge. Driver had to swerve to miss it. They did not see where…

    #991275 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 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…

    #991276 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. 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,…

    #991277 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. early 1930's Portsmouth, Scioto Cty, Ohio

    Goerge Johnson, 10, looking out bedroom window at dusk, saw "overgrown gorilla' walking towards and into the woods. House was in Eastside Portsmouth, area called Sciotoville.

    #991278 one large, sex unknown Creature description