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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jul 1971 Belle Glade, Palm Beach Cty, Florida

    Ray Fairman said that while driving on Hwy 27 south of Belle Glade he stopped for what he thought was a hitchhiker, but as he opened the door there was an awful stench of decayed flesh and a huge form…

    #991618 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. about 1971 Nobleton, Hernando Cty, Florida

    Woman hanging clothes said to have been chased into her house by a sasquatch.

    #991619 one, no description Creature description

  3. Aug 1971 For Lauderdale, Broward Cty, Florida

    Rabies control officer saw a huge, hairy manlike creature run across the road in front of his car.

    #991620 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jun 1971 Greenville, Washington Cty, Mississippi

    Going to her daughter's house, Mae Pearl Young went around the side of the building and encountered a black creature over six feet tall with a great big head, broad shoulders, hands on hips. She screamed but it did not…

    #991794 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. 1971 Madonna, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Janis Terry saw a creature sitting on something in a small wooded area near her house. It stood up, raised its arms and walked back into the woods. Eyes bright "like an owl's."

    #992019 one, no description Creature description

  6. 1971 Mitchellville, Prince George's Cty, Maryland

    Les Illinski wrote that he had talked to several people who had to swerve their car to avoid hitting Goatman standing in the road.

    #992020 one, no description Creature description

  7. 1971 Riverdale, Prince George's Cty, Maryland

    Ray Hayden and Willie Gheen told Mark Opsasnick that they had seen a half-man, half-animal in a field near Riverdale, and also in a wooded area near Zug Road at Bowie, both in Prince George's County.

    #992022 one, no description Creature description

  8. 1971 Bowie, Prince George's Cty, Maryland

    Ray Hayden and Willie Gheen told Mark Opsasnick that they had seen a half-man, half-animal in a field near Riverdale, and also in a wooded area near Zug Road at Bowie, both in Prince George's County.

    #992023 one, no description Creature description

  9. Nov 1971 Bowie, Prince George's Cty, Maryland

    A group of girls reported to have seen Goatman running through their back yard at 8510 Zug Road.

    #992024 one, no description Creature description

  10. Nov 1971 Bowie, Prince George's Cty, Maryland

    County Police Captain Lawrence Wheeler reports many calls conscerning Goatman activity in the latter part of 1971. Kathy Edwards and a group of teenagers reported a sighting Nov. 17, a mangy creature sitting on a pickup truck. It ran into…

    #992025 one, no description Creature description

  11. Jan 1971 Dutchess Cty, New York

    Young man on snowmobile following huge tracks in deep snow, saw a sasquatch standing a few feet off a path.

    #992262 one, no description Creature description

  12. 1971 Allison Park, Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania

    Male witness observed a tall, grey, apelike creature in an open field.

    #992362 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Jul 1971 Overton Cty, Tennessee

    Brenda and Cindy were coming back from picking blackberries at the back of the family farm and heard a big animal following them through a cedar woods. They turned and confronted a tall, long-armed hairy man, which looked startled, threatening,…

    #992697 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 1971 Vincent, Washington Cty, Ohio

    Rodney and friend were watching TV in friend's parents' mobile home on a hill a quarter mile from the nearest house. They heard a noise, looked up and saw a large face looking in the window of the front door.…

    #992721 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 1971 Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania

    Randy Fink and girlfriend sitting in tall grass on pipeline right of way heard a loud bird-like sound repeated for 20 minutes from a stationary location. Stood up and saw 20 yards away a 7 to 9-foot anthropoid standing in…

    #992837 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. May 1971 Broken Bow, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma

    On fishing trip to Broken Bow Reservoir, teenagers David Holley and A.C. climbed to the top of an island, found large area trampled down, with trees around broken off 9-10 feet up. Noted strong smell. On way down heard something…

    #992981 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1971 to 1972 Calcutta, Columbiana Cty, Ohio

    D.M. and friend, going to raid ice box about 2 a.m., turned on living room light and saw illuminated in yard a huge creature covered with dark brown hair walking away. Looked back quickly, turning upper body but not breaking…

    #993026 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  18. Feb 1971 Hope, Hope-Princeton Hwy, British Columbia

    Eileen Yerxa managing Sunshine Valley Lodge, in morning found miles of tracks about 14 inches long, with a 30 to 36-inch stride, in deep snow a foot of which had fallen overnight. Wandered around, double set but assumed was one…

    #1000091 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. 1971 Silverton, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia

    Robbin Flewin and Rick Dankoski were travelling up Silverton Creek, fishing, when they found tracks 17 inches by 6 inches, two inches deep in the road up the creek. Toes were clear, showing dermal ridges. Seven or eight prints leading…

    #1000092 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Jul 1971 Houston, Highway 16 Dis, British Columbia

    Mrs. Byron Sheldon was in a trailer at their recreational property on Buck Flats Road north of Grizzly Lake, 18 miles south of Houston, after breakfast one day in July, 1971, when a creature she estimated to be 8 feet…

    #1000173 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. May 1971 Tappen, Shuswap Dis, British Columbia

    Mrs. Gordon Birkenhead, Don Mills, Ont. passed on a story told her by a man from Tappen B.C., that another man from Tappen and an Indian family had seen a sasquatch in the water in a little lake on the…

    #1000174 one, no description

  22. Jul 1971 Lake Louise, Crowsnest Pass, British Columbia

    #1000175 one large female Creature description

  23. Sep 1971 Princeton, Allison Pass, British Columbia

    Harvey Kirby was sitting in a parked truck, driver sleeping, at the roadside just past the highway equipment yard at Allison Pass when he noticed movement in the rear-view mirror. He turned and watched a sasquatch walk across the paved…

    #1000176 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Jan 1971 Masset, Queen Charlotte Isl, British Columbia

    Bob Titmus was told that a white man and three Indians had seen a sasquatch at the north tip of Kumdis Island while deer hunting. He flew there from Kitimat and found one good footprint in bare ground where a…

    #1000233 one, no description

  25. Oct 1971 Sechelt, Sechelt Peninsula, British Columbia

    Jon Stewart was prospecting on the Sechelt Peninsula at about the 3500-foot level when he came over a hill and saw two creatures of human shape covered with hair the colour of a collie dog near some swamp holes. It…

    #1000234 two large, sex unknown Creature description