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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. mid 1970's Tull, Saline Cty, Arkansas

    Two of Sammi Ridgeway's uncles hunting near the Saline River went down to the shore and knelt to get a drink. They heard foliage rattling and breaking across the river and got their guns ready, expecting a deer, but a…

    #992885 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. Nov 1970 to 1971 Titusville, Crawford Cty, Pennsylvania

    Driving through thick forest between 2 and 3 a.m., John and friend thought they saw a naked man jogging ahead of them and yelled offer of help. Thing ignored them and kept going. Drawing alongside they saw it did not…

    #992913 one small Creature description

  3. 1970 Monona, Clayton Cty, Iowa

    R.H. with girlfriend at night on gravel road 2 miles N. of Monona, saw large brownish creature, very tall, run across road, down ditch, leap over fence and run into cornfield. Next day found "large smudged footprints." Older residents said…

    #993031 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jan 1970 Squamish, Cheakamus Canyon, British Columbia

    Witness was at work as highway maintenance foreman, driving north in pickup truck, rounded bend and saw animal on all fours at the left side of the road, it immediately got up on two legs, ran across the road and…

    #1000010 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. May 1970 Nazko, Chilcotin Dis, British Columbia

    Observer out hunting, saw creature coming and got out of sight as best he could, then watched it go by, apparently without noticing him. Later, with others, he followed its trail for 10 miles, finding one place where it sat…

    #1000032 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  6. Feb 1970 Klemtu, Swindle Isl, British Columbia

    Andrew Robinson was in a rowboat when he saw an ape on the shore. He rowed towards it and it walked into the bush. Robinson's eyesight is poor.

    #1000050 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Apr 1970 Harrison Hot Springs, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia

    Kieth Shepard was driving to Harrison Hot Springs when he had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting what he thought was a man or goriall on the road just south of the Pines Motel. He then realized it…

    #1000058 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. 1970 Canoe River, Wells Gray Park, British Columbia

    Unnamed B.C. Hydro engineer told George Harris that he had been flown in to the north end of Wells Gray Park on survey work and came on barefoot tracks of large, humanlike feet. Presumably in snow high up, but this…

    #1000090 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  9. Nov 1970 Princeton, Allison Lake, British Columbia

    Stuart Syme, writing outdoors column, said that while grouse huntling in the hills west of Allison Lake he saw at the bottom of a gully a creature 5 feet tall, covered with long, straight, cinnamon brown hair. It had a…

    #1000172 one small Creature description

  10. Apr 1970 Klemtu, Swindle Isl, British Columbia

    The crew of the seiner Bruce I, from Vancouver, stopped at Klemtu and told people there that they had seen a big creature on the mossy shore a mile North of the village early in the morning. It was only…

    #1000231 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  11. Mar 1970 Skidegate Mission, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    Tina Brown and Herman Collison saw the creature in their headlights, standing in the bush at a church camp seven miles north of Skidegate Mission. She said it was about 7 feet tall, hair all over, including face, small beady…

    #1000232 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Mar 1970 Juskatla, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    Vancouver Sun quotes Tina Brown as saying that a boy saw a sasquatch a short time before her sighting, near the logging camp at Juskatla. She said it lifted up its arms and ran, and footprints were found.

    #1000236 one, no description Creature description

  13. Jun 1970 Taholah, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Berfore midnight, six boys looking around near the Quinalt River four miles East of Taholah because they had heard of strange doings with rocks being lobbed among construction workers at water tower. Heard something crashing in the brush, all ran…

    #1000251 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. May 1970 Copalis Beach, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Three girls, Rosemary Tucker, Diane Higby and Becky Figg, who was driving, were on County Road 101 between Copalis Crossing and Aloha when Rosemary saw a 7-foot, creature covered with silver-tipped hair in the headlights. After they went by Diane,…

    #1000265 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  15. Mar 1970 Skykomish, King Cty, Washington

    Informant and Walt Ellis, Snohomish, were skiing at Stevens Pass ski area and found tracks in the snow coming down off the mountain to the top of the ski tow and going back up. Tracks were barefoot, clear, 12 inches…

    #1000270 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  16. before 1970 Ada, Lane Cty, Oregon

    Talton English told Keith Soesbe that after sleeping in a station wagon on a road on a mountain near Ada, Oregon, he was lighting a fire for coffee when a creature came out of the woods and stood by the…

    #1000276 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  17. Jun 1970 Dallas, Polk Cty, Oregon

    Doris Newton was driving when she saw on the road 100 yards away a 6 foot, heavy, erect creature with short, dark, silver-tipped hair. It quickly stepped off into the bush, although she saw no other indication that it was…

    #1000311 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Jun 1970 The Dalles, Wasco Cty, Oregon

    Two boys, Brian Lebreton and Leonard Hall, camping out at the Trates Point gravel quarry, planning to hunt rabbits in the morning, claim that a huge, heavy, dark-haired creature noved around on top of the bank above them, watching them.…

    #1000312 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. Aug 1970 Wilsonville, Washington Cty, Oregon

    Mrs. Laura Picchi went to see who was shooting beyond some bush on their farm. She climbed through a barbed-wire fence next to the bush and as she turned back to pick up the shotgun she had leaned against a…

    #1000313 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. Sep 1970 Coose Bay (Eastside), Coos Cty, Oregon

    Edward Flowers saw from inside his mobile home two large creatures running across the pasture on their hind legs a quarter mile away, a smaller brown one in front of a larger black one. The smaller one had 6-inch long,…

    #1000314 two large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Jan 1970 Oroville, Butte Cty, California

    Ken Coon and Bill Early, looking for tracks around Oroville, where there had been a dozen sightings reported in the previous six months, found some 15-inch and some 6-inch tracks together in muddy sod.

    #1000392 one large, one small Footprints

  22. Jan 1970 Greenfield, Monterey Cty, California

    Six youths, boar hunting, saw five tracks, 16 1/2 x 7", sunk 3/4" deep in dirt in a clearing in Los Padres National Forest.

    #1000393 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  23. Dec 1970 Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Kim Polumbo saw a Bigfoot cast at Ken Coon's home and told him she had seen similar tracks along the edge of a dirt road in the foothills near the Fairmont Reservoir in Northwest Los Angeles County several weeks before.…

    #1000412 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  24. early 1970's Palmdale, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Hippy told Rich Grumley that he was waiting to meet a drug seller in the Los Angeles National Forest back of the Little Rock Dam when he saw and shot at a sasquatch-type creature that walked towards him from the…

    #1000415 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. about 1970 China Lake, Tulare Cty, California

    Dave Burdette was employed at a tungsten mine in Rockhouse Basin at Kennedy Meadows, and was working on a truck when he saw a 7 ft. reddish-brown creature running fast on its hind legs on the far side of the…

    #1000429 one large, sex unknown Creature description