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Feb 1976
Woodlawn, Hamilton Cty, Ohio
Two policemen had separate sightings of Bigfoot.
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Feb 1977
Jackson, Jackson Cty, Ohio
Jackie Smith called reporter to see tracks in snow by his mobile home. They and Smith's cousin Dale followed them almost a mile in wooded hills before loosing trail.
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Mar 1977
Sebring, Mahoning Cty, Ohio
Paul Rozich told a UFO meeting that a Bigfoot-type creature had been seen on a rural road between Alliance and Sebring, at 1 a.m., March 7 and at 9.30 p.m. March 8. Too vague to justify two entries.
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Mar 1977
Ravenna, Portage Cty, Ohio
Barbara Postilli told deputies that she and two neighbourhood teenagers saw a humanlike, hairy creature about 8 feet tall, 500 pounds, walk out of the woods and across a field towards the house about 6.30 p.m. It fled after they…
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Mar 1977
Atwater, Portage Cty, Ohio
Doug Zammon and Mike Circle, driving down River Road near State Rte 183 at 1.30 a.m., saw a huge creature with yellow reflecting eyes cross the road and go up a hill towards the woods. Back next night with friend…
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Mar 1977
Alliance, Stark Cty, Ohio
Sue Anderson driving on Atwater Ave., about 9.30 p.m. saw a large object coming from a field towards the road. It stepped over a 4 1/2 foot fence.
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Jun 1978
Butler, Knox Cty, Ohio
Man told police he saw Bigfoot on road "as big as a bear on its hind legs" on Ohio 95 near the Richland County border, and was so scared he ran off the pavement.
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Jul 1978
Richland Cty, Ohio
In story about Knox Cty report, reference to three sightings in Richland County of a creature 7 to 9 feet tall with red eyes and a large head.
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
First of at least three sightings over 3-week period. Evelyn Cayton and son Howe and daughter Vicki Keck went to see what had frightened some children, and saw the creature standing on the bank of an old strip mine pit.…
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
Second of three sightings, Evelyn Cayton saw the creature sitting on its haunches at the bottom of the abandoned strip mine pit.
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
Third of at least three sightings over 3-week period. Evelyn Cayton, Vicki Keck, Becky Manley, Linda Jones and Scott Patterson went to investigate noises from a partially-demolished chicken coop near the house. Two pairs of eyes reflected from flashlights, then…
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
John and Jerry Nutter went to wooded area near where the Cayton family had seen a sasquatch earlier in August and as they approached the abandoned strip mine they heard something moving parallel to them in the dense brush, then…
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1979
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
Howard Burke Jr. lived a trailer park next to the Cayton place. He said he had a good look at the creature as it crossed Route 30, seeing it standing across the road as he turned into the park driveway.…
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Date unknown
Location unknown
Second entry to get different footprint size in the computer. See 1316.
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Dec 1978
Gibsonville, Hocking Cty, Ohio
Dennis Zunk said his friend was sitting under a tree in a pine thicket when a big creature walked through. He thought it was a man in a fur coat until it reached up and ripped a limb of the…
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late 1970's
Ohio
Bill Sheets and John Thomas photographed big tracks and followed them to a road, where they disappeared. Found them again 15 miles down the road, going off into a field. They followed until they were up to their waists in…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Union Cty, Ohio
Patrick Poling was working on a tractor when the creature walked out of the woods and along the edge of a field. He watched for 6 or 7 minutes, then drove towards it. When he got about 100 feet away…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Logan Cty, Ohio
Raymond Quay, a golf-course greenskeeper and part-time police officer, went to see why hid dogs were barking, and the creature peered at him from around the barn. He yelled and it walked away. There was a smell "like limburger cheese…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Logan Ctky, Ohio
Getting the mail (presume from rural route box) at 8:15 a.m., Tom Quay saw the creature at the edge of the woods near their farm. Both turned and walked away. Three days after his father had seen it near the…
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Union Cty, Ohio
Donna Riegler saw creature lying hunched over on the road. It got up, turned and looked at her holding its polms out, knees bent a bit, same gesture described by Pat Poling (1320).
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Jun 1980
West Mansfield, Logan Cty, Ohio
Larry Ramey was on a tractor when the creature came out of the woods and approached. It then went back in the woods, apparently disturbed by a second tractor. No description given, but presumably the same as related reports.
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Jul 1980
Plain City, Union Cty, Ohio
Charles Lovejoy in parked pickup on Smith-Calhoun Rd. near Big Darby Creek, turned up stereo and huge creature stood up in clearing 35 yards away, black hair, but lighter on face, eyes greenish. It left (how not stated) and Lovejoy…
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Oct 1980
McArthur, Vinton Cty, Ohio
No specific, detailed reporting of either sighting or track incidents. Tracks found weeks before sighting dated here, but there may have been earlier ones.
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Jun 1981
Rock Creek, Ashtabula Cty, Ohio
Witness walking on railroad at night encountered creature and ran to his grandmother's house. It pursued him. Later he and two friends returned and encountered it again.
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Jun 1981
Rome, Ashtabula Cty, Ohio
Johnson Road family awakened by loud growling and commotion in farmyard. Creature returned to woods when light shined on it. Came back three days later, was chased into a clearing and fired at. Sheriff's deputies found tracks. Ducks and chickens…