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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. May 1979 Haney, Pitt Lake Dis, British Columbia

    Lance Barnett wrote a report stating that he, 17, Joe, 27, Craig, 17, Bruce, 15 and Kevin, 14, climbed up Gold Creek valley to a 2,000 foot pass leading to Pitt Lake. He said they observed an alder sapling with…

    #1000244 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  2. Sep 1979 Crestview, Mono Cty, California

    The Pacific Museum of Anthropology and Geology at Baldwin Park, Calif., has a copy of a statement by George LaSeur concerning tracks seen by him and his father on a Sunday morning in September, 1959 about a half mile off…

    #1000468 two large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  3. Sep 1979 Camp Richardson, El Dorado Cty, California

    Raymond D. told Frank Flaton that he and his friend Dan, vacationing at Camp Richardson, got lost hiking to Fallen Leaf Lake and were following a stream bed back to Lake Tahoe. In the muddy bed they encountered huge footprints,…

    #1000599 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  4. Dec 1979 Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California

    Indian girl at Hoopa told Mark Keller that when she and her family went to cut a Christmas tree near Fish Lake they came on sasquatch tracks in the snow, 14 inches long. They were terrified. Tracks described as "deep",…

    #1000600 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  5. Feb 1979 Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino, California

    Tom Taylor talked to Joe ? "a Boy Scout Leader of a sort" who said that at a campground at Lake Arrowhead he went about 70 feet to the river for water and saw a 7-foot, green-eyed, brown-haired creature staring…

    #1000641 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Jun 1979 Hemet, Riverside Cty, California

    Story by Steve Vance quotes Dick and June Putnam regarding strange incidents in 1978 in the vicinity of the 20-acre ranch they had purchased above Diamond Valley, including sounds of something heavy walking in the brush where their car was…

    #1000642 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  7. Jul 1979 Snohomish, Snohomish Cty, Washington

    Kathy Austin was driving to her home near Forest Glade late at night when she saw something moving. She stopped momentarily and a very tall creature hairy, with broad shoulders and a huge head, coming up over a hill. She…

    #1000902 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Jan 1979 Redmond, King Cty, Washington

    Checking the water supply for her family's horses, Diana Johnson found a 21-inch by 10 inch footprint "embedded in a frozen stream" to a depth of 1.5 inches. There were woods several hundred yards to the East. Her sister took…

    #1000906 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  9. Feb 1979 Forks, Clallam Cty, Washington

    Gail Buchert was working as a tree thinner on Gunderson Mountain (not on map and presumably a small mountain) near Forks. For some time felt she was being watched, then saw about 65 feet away, downhill, a 9-foot, slender creature…

    #1000907 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Jun 1979 Arlington, Snohomish Cty, Washington

    J.J. Senko was driving South on Highway 9 about three miles South of Arlington when he saw a hairy creature 7 to 9 feet tall run across the raod very fast about 70 yards in front of him. It emerged…

    #1000908 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Aug 1979 Marietta, Whatcom Cty, Washington

    Several residents of the Lummi Reservation told Bob Walls about a local fisherman who had gone into the brush beside one of the channels in the Nooksack River delta and had been chased back to his boat by a sasquatch.

    #1000909 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Sep 1979 Aberdeen, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    A Montesano man who wished to remain anonymous reported to sheriff's officers that he had seen a sasquatch-type creature 8 feet tall, weighing 700 to 800 pounds, with long hairy arms, running back and forth in the middle of the…

    #1000910 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Oct 1979 Longmire, Pierce Cty, Washington

    #1000911 more than two, sex unknown (large) Creature description

  14. 1979 Stella, Cowlitz Cty, Washington

    Bill Rosback said he and his wife were driving west on Hwy. 4 about a mile before Stella when they saw a sasquatch, est. 7 to 9 feet, 7 to 800 lbs., step across the guard rail, straddling it as…

    #1000912 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  15. 1979 Granite Falls, Snohomish Cty, Washington

    Carla Grose told Doug Trapp that she found footprints identical to his casts from the Stillaguamish River (14 inches by 5 inches, toes somewhat splayed, Sep 5 1980) near Jordan Road in Granite Falls, about a year earlier.

    #1000914 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  16. Apr 1979 Manzanita, Tilamook Cty, Oregon

    Driving South on Hwy 101, Monte Kauffman saw "a great big manlike ape" in a ravine on the North slope of Neahkahnie Mountain, about 150 yards away. He stopped and watched it for about a minute. After a passing vehicle…

    #1001079 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1979 Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon

    #1001080 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Nov 1979 Wheeler, Tilamook Cty, Oregon

    John Parsons states that he and Woody Simmons were on a deer hunting trip on Cole Mountain Rd. off Hwy 53 near Wheeler when their parked trailer was shaken at night, and next morning they found two humanlike footprints 24…

    #1001081 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  19. Oct 1979 Wheeler, Tilamook Cty, Oregon

    See 1001081

    #1001082 two large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. about 1979 Libby, Lincoln Cty, Montana

    Driving towards Libby at 1.30 a.m., Larry Davis turned up Pipe Creek Road, a mile before town, and saw what he took for a brown garbage bag in the road. As the car neared it raised a head with bright…

    #1001172 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Jun 1979 Kalispell, Flathead Cty, Montana

    Tim Ryerson and Bob Gukenbug told Whitefish Police they had found Bigfoot tracks in the bed of Logan Creek near their home in a trailer court near Olney, and later showed them to a deputy, a game warden and a…

    #1001173 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  22. Feb 1979 Kamiah, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Victor Hoskins was driving a loaded wheat truck slowly West on Hwy. 12 along the Locsa River when about 11 miles East of Lowell, between mile markers 153 and 154, he saw across the river the biggest bear he had…

    #1001218 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. May 1979 Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai Cty, Idaho

    Luke Duncan and his daughter Shannon, 13, were driving East on the I-80 freeway just outside the city when they noticed a reddish brown creature about 800 feet away walking uphill just above the base of the hill and within…

    #1001219 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. Oct 1979 Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho

    Don McIntosh and James Vargovich were hunting 3 or 4 miles from the McIntosh home on Brown's Creek about 11 road miles East of Weippe. There was a little new snow in the open, not under the trees. McIntosh came…

    #1001220 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  25. Oct 1979 Orofino, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Henry VanCorback Jr. was hunting on Little Weitas Butte about 20 miles East of Pierce, searching with binoculars over an open hillside about 200 yards away, when he saw a tall, dark animal, thin with long thin arms and legs,…

    #1001221 one large, sex unknown Creature description