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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Mar 1983 Freeport, Armstrong Cty, Pennsylvania

    Girl scouts pumping water saw a 6.5-foot gorilla-like creature walking erect. It had long arms and a peaked head, and was covered with hair. Police were notified and noticed a sulfur smell.

    #992491 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. 1983 to 1984 Lafayette, Macon Cty, Tennessee

    Six-year-old walking in woods behind grandparents' house, came over a hill on a trail and saw 30 feet away at the bottom of the hill a black creature 7 feet or more, with a white streak down the right side…

    #992699 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Apr 1983 Hendersonville, Henderson Cty, North Carolina

    Driving north on Hwy. 26 between 1 and 3 a.m. Scott McClean was startled by a 3 to 4-foot, brown, pointy-headed creature that walked in front of the car on two legs swinging its arms. He hit the brakes, waking…

    #992747 one small Creature description

  4. about 1983 Jefferson, Greene Cty, Pennsylvania

    Group playing hide and seek in the woods just East of Jefferson, saw a large hairy creature moving away rapidly, upright.

    #992785 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Oct 1983 Dundee, Monroe Cty, Michigan

    Two boys in woods with BB guns. On way home saw seated animal across a pond. Informant shot it. It screamed and stood up on two legs, swinging its arms around looking in all directions. Was about 7 feet tall…

    #992816 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Nov 1983 Dry Branch, Twiggs Cty, Georgia

    G.F. going deer hunting, 5 a.m., pitch dark, following path across gas line when something huge stood up beside him with a loud half roar, half scream. It then moved off, roaring every 50 yards or so. Saw only outline,…

    #992954 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Nov 1983 Naples, Collier Cty, Florida

    Dan Jackson was hunting hogs in a sawgrass field when he saw what he thought was a bear at the edge of a cypress bayhead. He approached unobserved to within 100 yards, then the creature stood up on its hind…

    #992994 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. 1983 Conroe, Montgomery Cty, Texas

    R.G. and his brother were building the first house in a new subdivision, staying in tents at night. They were subjected to screams and cackles on more than one occasion, saw nothing but concluded there were at least three very…

    #993017 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. 1983 Parksville, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Ray Norbert was hunting late in the season, at dusk but still with good visibility, and was in a meadow East of the Island Highway, when he heard a crashing in the forest on the far side of the field,…

    #1000218 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Aug 1983 Nanaimo, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia

    Gary Hurtig said he and some friends were shooting at apples with pellet guns in an area that was once a park/zoo of some sort. He walked off by himself and was leaning against a tree when someting moved 12…

    #1000219 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Dec 1983 Paradise, Butte Cty, California

    Young woman was driving down a steep canyon to her cottage on a dark, stormy evening when she saw a huge Bigfoot cross the road into the brush. She had two earlier possible sightings. One she said looked like a…

    #1000615 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Aug 1983 Bellevue, King Cty, Washington

    Putting hose on back lawn at 1.30 a.m., Joe Downham saw a tall man looking through the gap in the curtains of a lighted bedroom in Mrs. Nelson's house opposite. Going closer he saw the "man" was covered with dirty,…

    #1000917 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. 1983 Milton-Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon

    Gary Wielert and others were in camp at Big Meadows, on a high ridge between Mill Creek and the North Fork of the Walla Walla River during an elk hunt. They saw what they took to be another hunter walking…

    #1000956 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Oct 1983 Grants Pass, Josephine Cty, Oregon

    Paul T. Claywell reported to state police at Grants Pass that while riding his motorcycle on Interstate 5, slowly because of rain, Northbound between the two Grants Pass exits, his headlight hit an animal standing upright in the road. As…

    #1001089 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Nov 1983 Libby, Lincoln Cty, Montana

    Donna Davis, driving from her home on Copper Mountain about 4 p.m. on Pipe Creek Road, saw at a distance something very tall and dark walk like a man across the road, taking only about 5 steps.

    #1001176 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. May 1983 Canmore, Old Fort Creek, Alberta

    Willis and Elana Fox were driving East on Hwy 1A and had just entered the bridge over Old Fort Creek when a large, dark brown, bipedal creature stepped onto the road at the other end of the bridge, turned to…

    #1001314 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1983 Tubac, Santa Cruz Cty, Arizona

    Luke Gross (apparently) then 21 and a nephew, hunting quail in the lower elevations of the Santa Rita Mountains, about 50 miles South of Tucson, in an area of rolling hills and gulleys. As they topped a hill they heard…

    #1001406 one large male Creature description Footprints

  18. about 1982 Colton, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    #55 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  19. about 1982 Colton, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    #56 large, medium, small Footprints

  20. 1982 to 1983 Troy, Lincoln Cty, Montana

    #320 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. 1982 Augusta, Lewis and Clark Cty, Montana

    #371 one large female Creature description

  22. Dec 1982 Pueblo, Pueblo Cty, Colorado

    #377 one small Creature description

  23. 1982 Browning, Glacier Cty, Montana

    #396 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Sep 1982 Winthrop, Okanogan Cty, Washington

    #425 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Oct 1982 Vincennes, Knox Cty, Indiana

    Dan Thais noticed big tracks in loose dirt placed on old county dumpsite. Got Jim Thompson and they followed for a mile across field and through woods. Saplings and branches broken off 8 to 9 feet up, tracks four feet…

    #991067 one large, sex unknown Footprints