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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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.
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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.
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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.…
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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…
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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…