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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jan 1968 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    Mr. or Mrs. Bud Ryerson said that her newhew and another man, hunting on Martin's Ferry Hill, saw fresh Bigfoot tracks leading downhill.

    #1000517 Footprints

  2. 1968 Healdsburg, Sonoma Cty, California

    Phil Snow wrote that his brother and a friend were frightened by a very large dark, hair-covered animal that ran right in front of them one evening at Rio Nido on the Russian River. It ran like a man.

    #1000519 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Jan 1968 Twaine Harte, Tuolomne Cty, California

    Robert James Jr. said he and Leroy Larwick saw from 50 feet up an erect, brownish creature covered with matted, fuzzy hair, estimated 10 to 12 feet tall. Larwick took a picture. Later they drove to the area and took…

    #1000520 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  4. 1968 Stockton, San Joaquin Cty, California

    Dan Riddle said that when he was 13 in 1968 when he was an inmate of a juvenile detention camp near Stocton, a sasquatch smashed a window above his bunk, waking him and other kids. All rushed in panic to…

    #1000521 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Jan 1968 Atwater, Merced Cty, California

    De Witt told deputies that when he got out of his car on a lonely stretch of road near Belcher Drive and Trinity Road he saw a dark brown, hairy monster with glowing white eyes standing behind the car. He…

    #1000522 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Jan 1968 Garberville, Humboldt Cty, California

    Three teenagers, John Sugget, Bob Disbrow and Richard Rogers, walking on the road near Garberville in fog, heard thump, thump, thump up the hiss and saw an erect, 9 foot creature about 100 yards away silhouetted by a street light.…

    #1000523 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Jan 1968 Vacaville, Solano Cty, California

    Michael McAlister, William Case, Robert McCallum and Peter Bora, all teenagers, told police they saw a big, hairy, dark creature walking on its hind legs while driving in the Bucktown area. Vacaville paper says they saw it loom up in…

    #1000524 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. 1968 Oroville, Butte Cty, California

    Ron Cooper told Jim McClarin that he had seen an ape in a cemetery at night.

    #1000525 one large, sex unknown

  9. Jun 1968 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    Boys left car at Bluff Creek and started hiking to Fish Lake. At 11 p.m. he they saw in a clearing a "tall dark creature" that stood up and walked off, leaving a strong stench. Names Steve Martin and Bruce…

    #1000526 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Jul 1968 Willow Creek, Humboldt Cty, California

    Family camping by South Fork of Trinity River a few miles from Salyer, felt some animal had been around all day, at dark it came downhill and started to walk towards man, who ran and got in car. It walked…

    #1000527 one large, sex unknown

  11. 1968 Weaverville, Trinity Cty, California

    A friend of Bob Betts said that his friend, Mark Gottschalk, was one of 13 men fighting a fire in the Trinity Alps in 1968 who saw three hairy manlike animals at fairly close range. They packed their gear and…

    #1000528 more than two, sex unknown (large)

  12. Dec 1968 Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California

    Newspaper reports that two men from Humboldt Fir Co. driving up Bluff Creek encountered 16-inch tracks in snow at the East Fork of Bluff Creek and followed them for almost three miles, losing them in the area above Notice Creek.…

    #1000530 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  13. Apr 1968 Happy Camp, Siskiyou Cty, California

    Bob Betts quotes James S. Sternberg, Arcata, as having seen several Bigfoot tracks in mud and marsh grass at Elk Hole, near Sawtooth Mountain, headwaters of Dillon Creek.

    #1000531 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. Jun 1968 Skamania, Skamania Cty, Washington

    Cal Houdeshelt told Robert Geunette that he was driving on Rte. 14 near Skamania in the early evening when he came over a knoll and saw a 7 foot creature, brown to grey, hairy, with a head "sort of like…

    #1000739 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Jul 1968 Yakima, Yakima Cty, Washington

    Jerry Merritt, Patterson's neighbour, said he saw a sasquatch at night about 15 yards from his house. He heard screaming, opened the door, turned on the light and saw a creature facing away from him, ridding itself of Merritt's dog,…

    #1000740 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  16. Nov 1968 Yakima, Yakima Ctyk, Washington

    On Yakima Indian Reserve, in Ahtanum Valley, Jannett Jones and Mike Aronamous, college students, in car at 2 a.m. Aronamous got out of car and dark creature, 8 to 9 feet tall, advanced toward him. Both saw creature, which got…

    #1000741 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  17. Jul 1968 Neah Bay, Clallam Cty, Washington

    Cal and Mark Kaestiver and their cousins Mike and Dianne said by one of them, talking to children of Hewitts, said they saw big tracks coming out of the water and across a slough, on the beach at Makah Indian…

    #1000742 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  18. 1968 Brinnon, Jefferson Cty, Washington

    Marge Davenport, husband Dennis and daughter Peggy were walking on a logging road beyond the end of the Duckabush River Road, in about 300 inches of snow. Found 200 yards of tracks a lot larger than sized 12 boots, showing…

    #1000743 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. Jun 1968 Clipper, Whatcom Cty, Washington

    Lunch hour during work clearing fire trail, Frank Lawrence Jr. lying down, heard a whistle, stood up and saw about 100 yards away three creatures, largest 6-foot and heavy, female a little smaller with pendulous breasts, slighter one about 5-foot,…

    #1000783 male, female and small Creature description

  20. Dec 1968 Orient, Ferry Cty, Washington

    Olaf Nelson was hunting, driving, when he found tracks on the side of the road 14 inches by 6 inches, a foot deep in the snow, making 3 to 4-foot strides. He thought they were bear tracks.

    #1000784 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. May 1968 Baker, Baker Cty, Oregon

    Harvey Parry said that as he and two others were in a helicopter flying over mountains to a movie set for "Paint Your Wagon" they saw from 400 feet up a huge, stooped creature covered with heavy hair, walking upright…

    #1000997 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. 1968 The Dalles, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    Jim Craig and Colleen McKay said thay were driving West from The Dalles with two other young people when they saw a dark brown creature, twice the size of a human, sitting on the rocks above the road, legs extended,…

    #1000998 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Jun 1968 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    Fuhrmann said that Don Brunswick was driving on a logging road on Hawk Mountain (not on map) South of the Glen Thomas site (1000298) when he saw a dark creature more than 6 feet tall and much broader than a…

    #1000999 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. 1968 Grants Pass, Josephine Cty, Oregon

    Jerry Katt was one of a group of smoke jummpers packing out from a fire when they came across a string of huge footprints on a sandbar on Indigo Creek. Tracks were half again as long as his boots, with…

    #1001000 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  25. Sep 1968 Tigh Valley, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    Two bear hunters reported giant humanlike tracks on a sand bar of the White River just South of Mount Hood. The tracks were still wet, the trackmaker having apparently waded through the river. John Fuhrmann was unable to find them…

    #1001001 one large, sex unknown Footprints