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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Sep 1972 Grangeville, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Armstrong and Koford said that while driving back to their hunting camp near Dixie, Idaho, they saw two sasquatches in their headlights, then a short time later, about 10 p.m., they sensed something in the brush and with a spotlight…

    #1001197 one large female Creature description Footprints

  2. 1972 Grangeville, Idaho Cty, Idaho

    Hiking in the Selway Wilderness, where a mule had died a few months earlier, Ray Higgins found that the body had been moved and covered with huge branches. There are no grizzlies in the area. Exploring around he found footprints,…

    #1001198 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  3. 1972 Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho

    Ron Harvey, at his home near Orofino, in the early morning, shortly before daylight watched for a minute as an 8-foot creature covered with long, thick, greyish-white hair walked across an open field behind his barn, 50 to 75 yards…

    #1001199 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Jul 1972 Jackson, Teton Cty, Wyoming

    Vincent Lee wrote a detailed account of a 20-year-old girl riding along the West bank of the Snake River just below its confluence with the Hoback River and seeing across the river a dark, upright figure emerge from the timber…

    #1001269 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. Aug 1972 Lander, Fremont Cty, Wyoming

    Tom Hernandez and Kurt Leininger, both 13, were riding by a hayfield on Fort Washakie Indian Reservation when they saw a tall, hairy monster with an ape-shape head move between two haystacks. They went on up the road, but when…

    #1001270 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Jun 1972 Nordegg, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Location is unclear. Says near Nordegg and near Abraham Lake, but on a forestry road 20 miles West of Hwy. 11. No apparent place for a forestry road near the lake. Location used is a guess that it had to…

    #1001293 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. 1972 Rocky Mountain House, David Thompson Hwy, Alberta

    Mrs. Robert Burton picking berries near her home with her daughter, 12, and a youth, 17, in a valley "full of tag alders" saw about 200 feet away the head and shoulders of a man covered with hair except on…

    #1001294 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. Jan 1972 St. Charles, Bear Lake Cty, Idaho

    Justin Phelps went by snowmobile into the bottom of a canyon where he had seen an apelike creature on two previous occasions, all in winter. Lying on the machine, by a fire, he looked up and saw a 4.5-foot creature…

    #1001363 one small Creature description Footprints

  9. 1972 to 1973 Greeley, Weld Cty, Colorado

    #1001408 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Nov 1972 California

    #1001441

  11. 1972 Satsop, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington

    Kirk and Kelly D., boys 15 and 16.5, were walking to their isolated home on E. Satsop road when they noted a large dark object following them. They ran, but it kept up, still apparently at an easy walk. They…

    #1001503 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  12. Aug 1973 Detroit, Linn Cty, Oregon

    #1 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  13. Jul 1973 Glenwood, Yakima Cty, Washington

    #106 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 1973 Tacoma, Pierce Cty, Washington

    #107 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 1973 Orleans, Humboldt Cty, California

    #205

  16. about 1973 Humboldt Cty, California

    #206 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. Sep 1973 Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Cty, California

    #207 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Jun 1973 California

    #208 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. Aug 1973 Paradise, Butte Cty, California

    #209 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. 1973 Bonner, Missoula Cty, Montana

    #304 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. 1973 Darby, Ravalli Cty, Montana

    #305 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  22. 1973 Santa Fe, San Miguel Cty, New Mexico

    #324 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. May 1973 Enfield, White Cty, Illinois

    Rick Rainbow said he and three others saw a 5 to 5.5 foot, grey-black creature standing in the open end of an abandoned barn half a mile north of Enfield. It let out a shriek and fled.

    #991025 one small Creature description

  24. Apr 1973 Enfield, White Cty, Illinois

    Henry McDaniel, a disabled war veteran, reported that a hairy creature scratched on his door. Newspaper calls this the first report of the "Enfield monster." McDaniel also claimed to have seen it on a railroad track near his home on…

    #991026 one, no description Creature description

  25. Jun 1973 Murphysboro, Jackson Cty, Illinois

    Randy Needham and Judy Johnson (someone else's wife) parked just before midnight at Murphysboro boat ramp on Big Muddy River. They heard a loud cry from the woods next to the car, like an amplified eagle shriek. Needham then saw…

    #991027 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints