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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Mar 1907 Kemano, Gardner Can, British Columbia

    Crewmen of the steamer Capilano reported that Indians at Bishop's Cove were terrorized by a five-foot monkey, covered with long hair, that came out on the beach at night to dig clams, and howled. They had tried to shoot it,…

    #1000969 one small Creature description

  2. 1909 Dorchester Cty, Maryland

    Albert Evans, travelling his land with horse and buggy, saw a dark-haired, 7 foot man-beast standing over several of his dead cows.

    #991973 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. May 1909 Harrison Hot Springs, Chehalis River, British Columbia

    Peter Williams was hunting at the foot of the mountain a mile from the Chehalis Reserve when he heard a grunt, looked and saw what he thought was huge bear crouched on a boulder 20 or 30 feet away. As…

    #1000071 one large male Creature description Footprints

  4. 1909 to 1910 Harrison Hot Springs, Chehalis River, British Columbia

    Peter Williams second reported sighting, a few months after the first, duck hunting, encountered the same hairy giant and ran. It followed him for three or four hundred yards, then gave up the chase.

    #1000073 one large male Creature description

  5. about 1910 International Falls, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota

    Loggers said to have captured a sasquatch and kept it in a cage of poles for a week, but it screamed and fought terribly and finally escaed. They called it "Jocko".

    #991206 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. about 1910 Baraboo, Sauk Cty, Wisconsin

    Walking in the woods when she was about 10, Pearl Hoover encountered a 'bear' that had human eyes and followed her almost home. at one point it reached towards her. She thought it was in some kind of pain and…

    #991512 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  7. 1910 Fenton, Livingston Cty, Michigan

    Informant's grandmother said that when she was 7, living at White Lake, she watched saw from a hill leading down to the lake three large and two small hair-covered creatures that she identified as the same as those on a…

    #992924 other group of large and small Creature description

  8. 1910 Harrison Hot Springs, Chehalis River, British Columbia

    Peter Williams third sighting. He and another man were bear hunting near the place where Williams had seen a sasquatch the year before, when they saw what they thought were two stumps. As they got near the stumps stood up…

    #1000072 male and female (large) Creature description

  9. 1910 Harrison Mills, Harrison River, British Columbia

    Peter Williams fourth sighting. He and his wife were fishing in the Harrison River near Harrison Bay, rounded a neck of land and saw a giant on the beach, the same one Peter had seen twice before a few months…

    #1000074 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. before 1910 Vernon, Okanagan Dis, British Columbia

    Charles H. Olds recalled a newspaper item, perhaps in the Vernon News, sometime between 1903 and 1910, of large humanlike tracks seen coming down from the hills to the East, between Woods Lake and Duck Lake, crossing the high land…

    #1000962 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. 1911 Minnesota

    Two men said to have seen a human giant with light hair covering most of its body, in northern Minnesota. (Could be misplacing of similar report from northern Michigan?)

    #991207 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. 1912 Mercerville, Gallia Cty, Ohio

    J.M. and his mother were picking berries on their farm and started home through some woods. They saw a "monster" with a bulky head, no neck and monstrous wide shoulders, which walked parallel to them, growling or barking, for about…

    #992691 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Apr 1912 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    On a sandbar while fishing in a creek Grover Kiggins saw two flat-footed barefoot prints far too big to be human.

    #1000278 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  14. 1912 Oakville, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    One night in the spring of 1933 Callie Lund heard a very loud noise on the hill behind her home, on a hillside above the Chehalis River valley. A similar noise answered from another hill. She woke her mother, who…

    #1000679 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 1913 Goose Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador

    Stories by Eliot Merrick and Bruce Wright differ on specifics, both written long after the event. They agree that a daughter of Mrs. Michelin ran home saying that the creature was following her, and that Mrs. Michelin shot at it…

    #992655 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  16. 1914 Churchville, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Man from Chase, who then lived in Churchville, went out at night looking for his cap and saw by lantern a figure seated on a log, like a gorilla, as tall seated as he was standing. Hairy all over. Location…

    #991974 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1915 to 1920 Michigan

    Tracks described only as 'strange' but the hunters were following them when the 'human giant wilth long arms and short light hair covering most of its body' came out of the trees, looked at them and seemed frightened, then lumbered…

    #991124 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  18. about 1915 Wann, Nowata Cty, Oklahoma

    Crum King, a young man coming from a dance to his home just southeast of Wann, saw near his gate a hairy creature five or six feet tall and four feet wide at the chest, standing with its arms stretched…

    #991449 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. 1915 Hope, Greem Drop Lake, British Columbia

    Charles Flood, with Green Hicks and Donald McRae, was on a prospecting trip in the mountains south of Hope when they saw a creature in a berry patch. It was pulling branches with one hand and stripping berries with the…

    #1000037 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. 1916 California

    #153 one small Creature description

  21. 1916 Missoula, Missoula Cty, Montana

    Russel Schrieber stated that when he was seven years old he saw an upright-walking gorilla, dark in colour, which just stepped over a barbed-wire fence. Location given only as Missoula. Mention of Patty canyon, not on 1:500.000 map.

    #1001118 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. 1917 Kelso, Cowlitz Cty, Washington

    Informant was walking down the road going to a dance. The creature was on the road behind him. He heard it before he saw it. When he shouted it ran into the woods. Avccording to the Bigfoot Bulletin, presumably a…

    #1000001 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 1917 Woodland, Clark Cty, Washington

    Abel Leionen came to Peter Niemi's home near Woodland and told him that while walking past Shoemaker Hill he came face to face with a hairy animal at a spring. It was not a bear, more like an ape, with…

    #1000681 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  24. 1918 Lucerne, Yellowhead Pass, British Columbia

    A. A. Dodd was in the mountains south of Lucerne when he saw in some soft ground what he took to be the print of a large grizzly, the width of his hand span and as long as the stock…

    #1000079 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  25. before 1920 Central B.C., British Columbia

    #237 one large, sex unknown Creature description