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Jul 1982
Souris, Manitoba
Tracy Larson and a cousin in an agate quarry near Souris, smelled a musty odour and then saw 30 feet away a huge upright figure silhouetted in the twilight. They fled.
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Aug 1982
Roseau River, Manitoba
Ted Butters writes that many witnesses, including tribal police and R.C.M.P., saw sasquatches during a five-day period. A white, a black and three brown ones were seen all together. There were 16 sightings in all.
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Dec 1982
Brandon, Manitoba
Bob Woodward found three-toed tracks in fresh snow on his farm near Brandon, going from a railway main line across fields, over a barbed wire fence 2.5 feet high, through a ravine and to a gravel road, total 1.25 miles.…
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Oct 1982
Elizabeth City, Pasquatank Cty, North Carolina
John Cartwright, a city boy going hunting with a friend and father, stayed in deer stand from 5 a.m. to 9, saw many deer and a bear but didn't shoot, then smelled sewer-type odour, heard twigs snapping and an 8-foot…
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Apr 1982
Bagwell, Red River Cty, Texas
Looking for uncle in pasture, witness and cousin approached within 50 feet, realized was hairy creature about 6.5 feet tall. It turned to look at them, grunted and ran towards woods, stepped over fence and disappeared. Uncle heard them and…
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Dec 1982
Bagwell, Red River Cty, Texas
On logging road going to town, aunt screamed, others looked up and saw 6.5-foot creature colour of brown bear, crossing road right in front of car. Hair not very long, patches missing on arms and legs. Jumped across ditch and…
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Sep 1982
Fort Gay, Wayne Cty, West Virginia
Informant and friends were parked at a clearing above an old cemetery on Hewlett Branch Road, foolig around outside the car. They heard dogs barking like crazy down the hill, then stop. A minute later heard something moving through the…
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1982
Edmond, Oklahoma Cty, Oklahoma
Walking home from work about 3 a.m. after snowstorm, in a ravine with a small creek at the bottom saw a 5-foot creature covered with long black hair playing in the snow. It was bending over at the waist, throwing…
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1982
Glennville, Tatnall Cty, Georgia
Teenager L. and two friends checking out ghost story at Beard's Creek Church graveyard, saw creature on two feet standing under street light, headed back toward it and it ran into graveyard. Followed in car and creature stood up behind…
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Jul 1982
Osceola, St. Clair Cty, Missouri
Trying to follow abandoned trail between two Scout camps, J.A. and friend saw two 6-foot, brown-furred creatures burst out of trees 100 feet ahead and run over large rocks, fallen trees, thick underbrush, down log-filled embankment, jump across a 10-foot…
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about 1982
Golden, Selkirk Mtns, British Columbia
Jim Wallington, Kaslo, says a friend of his had a sasquatch shake the back of his truck about 1982 outside Golden.
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Jan 1982
Saanichton, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Vance Webster, 13, Tony Gruber, 9, and Larry Lambert, 12, were playing in a patch of woods when they encountered a creature they described as 10 feet high with hairy arms and legs. They ran, but reported to police, who…
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Jun 1982
Golden, Glacier Nat. Park, British Columbia
Frances Rand was on her way to Calgary by train, in Glacier National Park, going very slowly (so presume on climb up Illicilliwaet River valley) saw sitting on a fallen log at the edge of dense forest a creature estimated…
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Aug 1982
Pacific Grove, Monterey Cty, California
Two boys and a girl told police that while driving home they saw a 7-foot "gorilla-type" creature cross Buena Vista Street in three leaping steps. Street is 20 feet wide. It moved bent over, with an apelike shamble. They described…
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1982
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Bob Titmus spent several weeks looking for tracks around Bluff Creek. He found and cast 15 1/2 inch tracks on the same sandbar where the Patterson film was made, apparently from the same creature as shown in the film.
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1982
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Bob Titmus went to look at tracks reported in small artificial pond just above Laird Meadow on Onion Mountain. Found two large footprints plus handprints and knee prints, all under water. Partially drained pond and made casts.
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May 1982
Orange Cty, California
Searching an area where "Mr. H." had reported a sighting a year earlier, Dennis Ruminer found in the sand of a nearby riverbed several hundred yards of humanlike tracks, 15" by 8", with an even 52-inch stride and a depth…
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May 1982
Buena Park, Orange Cty, California
Three (one paper says four) 16-year-old boys, one of them apparently Raymond Hinsley, reported that they had seen a heavy, 7.5 to 8-foot hair-covered biped after dark in a big drainage ditch near an apartment building at 7601 Franklin Ave.…
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Apr 1982
Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Dennis Heryford contacted by a logger who did not wish his name made public and taken to "Abbott Hill" (not on 1:250,000 map) where there were two large footprints dried in mud on a logging spur road in a two-year-old…
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Apr 1982
Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Dennis Heryford was called to a location on the Satsop River known as Worman's Bar (not on 1:250,000 map) to see two sets of tracks that came out of the river together, going Westerly until they disappeared in hard-packed gravel.…
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Apr 1982
Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Dennis Heryford was called to a location on the Chehalis River known as "Elma Gate Boat Launch" (not on 1:250,000 map) by Officer Jim Young of the Oakville police department. With Sgt. Veryl Hutchinson, attended and that day and next…
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May 1982
Elma, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Dennis Heryford was called to a location in the Porter Creek area, where a local pastor had found tracks while on an outing with a group of children. With Deputy Mike Behm, photos were taken and two of the four…
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Dec 1982
Washougal, Skamania Cty, Washington
Scott Brown and Neal Brown, brothers, were remodelling a house near the Washougal River in Skamania County. In the front yard they found seven clear footprints 14 inches by 7.5 inches, plus some less obvious ones. Three more good prints…
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Jun 1982
Milton Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon
WARNING: On the face of it this is a high-quality report, but since then Paul Freeman has been involved with so many more reports, one of which involved proven fakery by someone, that it is generally discounted. Who knows? Paul…
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Jun 1982
Milton Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon
WARNING: See 1001086. Paul Freeman and Bill Epoch, patrolling inside the Mill Creek Watershed, found a number of 14-inch by 7-inch tracks, similar to those found 10 days earlier. Joel Hardin, a U.S. Border Patrol tracker, pronounced them fakes, but…