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Jun 1973
Murphysboro, Jackson Cty, Illinois
Randy Creath and Cheryl Ray were sitting on her porch about 10 p.m. when something moved in the brush nearby and a 7 to 8 foot creature with light hair covered with mud, weighing 300 to 350 pounds came out…
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Jul 1973
Murphysboro, Jackson Ctg, Illinois
At 2 a.m. carnival ponies at Riverside Park acted frightened. Norris, Adkerson and Lavander walked around a truck and saw standing upright in the darkness a 300 to 400 pound hairy, light-colored creature about 8 feet tall. It was watching…
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Oct 1973
St. Joseph, Champaign Cty, Illinois
Duncan, Summers, Mowry and Flenniken were on the township road leading to Sidney, south of St. Joseph and got out of their car to investigate what they thought was a campfire near the bridge on the Salt Fork. When one…
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May 1973
Rising Sun, Dearborn Cty, Indiana
George Kaiser was walking through the farmyard to a tractor when he saw the creature standing 25 feet away. It did not notice him for a couple of minutes as he stood watching, but when he moved it leaped a…
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Oct 1973
Galveston, Cass Cty, Indiana
Jim Mays, Kokomo, was fishing at a lake called The Pits northwest of Kokomo when he felt he was being watched, turned and saw a large figure 20 feet behind him in the woods. Looked somewhat like an ape, but…
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Oct 1973
Galveston, Cass Cty, Indiana
Jim Mays and John Grey and three others returned where Mays had seen a creature two days before. They saw a sandy-colored, giant, apelike creature standing at the edge of the woods where the thing Mays saw had disappeared. Two…
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Sep 1973
Manchester, Delaware Cty, Iowa
Jerry Ewing, who then lived in Manchester, went squirrel hunting at noon, five miles North of Manchester, and saw the creature walking in a field. It went into the woods, then came out, and they looked at each other for…
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1973
Bay City, Bay Cty, Michigan
Rick Long, 15, wrote that while breaking camp one morning at Bay City, his eight-year-old brother ran up and said that while walking on an old road he saw a hair-covered monster walking up an embankment on two legs. Rick…
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1973
Comins, Oscoda Cty, Michigan
Patsy Ott, riding in family car on Delano Rd., off Hwy. M33, said she saw a creature striding along a fence line, like a man, big, dark, hairy and tall, taking large steps and swinging its arms.
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Jan 1973
Duluth, Saint Louis Cty, Minnesota
At Island Lake, north of Duluth, Bob McGregor, 11, saw white furry creature 8 1/2 feet tall walk across a yard and through an unfinished house.
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Aug 1973
Mansfield, Richland Cty, Ohio
Jerry Greene heard something coming through the woods 25 yards from his house and went out with a shotgun. At the back of the barn he saw a large figure which turned to face him, outline like a man but…
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Aug 1973
Oberlin, Lorain Cty, Ohio
The two accounts differ, but Rudy Reinhold and perhaps Jim Chandley were coon hunting with hounds. Magazine says Reinhold shone a flashlight at a noise in the hedge by a pasture, saw two glowing red eyes, heard a long scream,…
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Oct 1973
Massillon, Stark Cty, Ohio
Chief Diloreto said his department had received several reports from the Page Ave. area on the west side of the city of amonster roaming back yards, easily jumping fences and hedges. It left a strong odour of dead fish.
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Nov 1973
Rapid City, Pennington Cty, South Dakota
Barry Olsen, Carroll Stinsonand another man saw a huge creature standing near the ditch by an old forest service road. As they watched it bent over, picked up a dead deer with one arm, and crashed through underbrush into dense…
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Jun 1973
Pine Bluff, Jefferson cty, Arkansas
Two boys told Deputy Johnny Wilson that in the woods near their home they had encountered a large shaggy "monster" coverd with dark hair which ran off without threatening them. They said it was usually around at night. Location is…
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May 1973
Pine Bluff, Jefferson Cty, Arkansas
Sandra, Jessie, Ricky and Sandra were parked at a dumping pit off Gravel Pit Road waiting out heavy rain about 7.30 p.m. when Sandra saw a vast, dark hairy creature looking through the back windshield with glowing red eyes. Others…
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Nov 1973
Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas
Orvile Scroggins, his son and grandson were helping a cow deliver a calf when they heard cows bellowing, looked up and saw a 4-foot upright creature with long black hair waling in a field about 100 yards away. Several tracks…
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Dec 1973
Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas
Rene Scribner, a member of Ron Olson's organization investigating in Arkansas, said on the phone that there had been a sighting, and that tracks going back and forth showed four toes. Details were to be reported to Ron.
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Oct 1973
Davie, Broward Cty, Florida
Michael Polesnek or Polesmek had seen five steers killed at a neighbour's ranch in September, 1973, where about 30 pounds of meat were eaten off one 200 pound animal that had then apparently been thrown 30 feet. On Oct. 11…
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about 1973
Punta Gorda, Charlotte Cty, Florida
Two men in a car saw a sasquatch emerge from fog, walk up to the car and look in the window. It had catlike green eyes, was covered with greyish hair, and smelled skunk-putrid.
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1973
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
With a group of teenagers having a hot dog roast on a sandspit off Sunshine Grove Road, with tape deck in car playing loudly, sister of Richard Werner walked towards the car and saw a tall, hairy manlike creature. When…
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Feb 1973
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
On the Kelly property, on Hwy 476 northwest of Brooksville, Mason O'Neil, a nephew of the Kellys, saw a sasquatch in a pasture.
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Dec 1973
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
On the George Kelly farm about 8 miles northwest of Brooksville on Hwy 476, Nancy and Debbie Kelly saw a large grey sasquatch standing in a pasture. Horses milled about in a frightened manner, and there was a foul odor.…
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Nov 1973
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
On the George Kelly farm about 8 miles northwest of Brooksville on Hwy 476, Nancy and Debbie Kelly saw a large grey sasquatch standing in a pasture. Horses milled about in a frightened manner, and there was a foul odor.…
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Jul 1973
Immokalee, Collier Cty, Florida
Terrance Craigsmith and his father, in truck, thought they saw a man fishing, stopped and approached, asking if he was catching anything. The 'man' raised up, 7 to 8 feet tall, ran towards them. They fled, dropping their rifles, going…