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Jun 1978
Crossett, Ashley Cty, Arkansas
Mike Lofton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Lofton, was feeding his puppy, alone at their trailer home, when the dog whined. He looked up and saw a huge hair-covered creature with arms extended overhead and, he said, three long,…
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Aug 1978
Benton, Saline Cty, Arkansas
Mrs. Mildred Wilton called Benton police after hearing something rattling a chain link fence in her back yard. She looked out and saw what looked like a gorilla a foot taller than the 4-foot fence. Police found a large footprint…
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1978
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
Footprint found in a patch of mud in the otherwise grassy back yard of the trailer home of Robert and Carolyn Coffey.
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Jan 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
A number of Venice residents reported a pair of skunk apes, evidently of different sexes, frolicking just outside the city limits, according to Mike Corradino.
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1978
Winterhaven, Polk Cty, Florida
Unnamed man likving in a large trailer park just west of Winterhaven looked out kitchen window about 8 p.m. and saw 8-foot sasquatch looking in. Next morning large sasquatch tracks all around garbage can.
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May 1978
Jay, Santa Rosa Ctky, Florida
Five truckloads of men reportedly fled after seeing a 6.5 to 8-foot creature on a pipeline from Flomaton to Jay.
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Mar 1978
Century, Escambia Cty, Florida
Man saw a very huge hairy manlike creature on the Canoe River standing picking something out of the water.
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Feb 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Owner found barn door knocked down, and inside rabbits removed from their hutches, heads bitten off, drained of blood. Nearby were 18-inch footprints resembling naked human prints except for size. Presume Corradino report.
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Jan about 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Mike Corradino, newspaperman and founder of Florida Monkey Sanctuary, tells of construction crews clearing a site in scrubby pinelands awakening a sasquatch with their heavy equipment early in the morning. It ran away, growling loudly at first, then shrieking as…
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Aug 1978
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Larry Nelson after seeing an 8 to 10-foot creature prowling around the woodline for the second evening in a row, called his brother who came with a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle. About 9.30 p.m. they spotted the creature in a…
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Aug 1978
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
This entry represents two early evening sighting by Larry Nelson, the second one the same day his brother shot at the creature, plus the finding of tracks, not stated whether before or after the sightings. It was the tracks that…
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before 1978
Yelvington, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Joe Ford had a second hand report of a teenage boy walking home after running out of gas, hearing footsteps behind him, then a creature grabbed at him. When he yelled both took off. There was no moon, so he…
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1978
artford, Ohio Cty, Kentucky
Joe Ford talked to a man who said that when he was walking in the woods something very hairy and very large reached out and grabbed his arm. He broke free and fled without looking back.
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Aug 1978
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Joe Ford says friends of Larry Nelson cornered the creature in mid August beside a pond in a field behind the house and one of them shot it with a pistol from 10 feet away. It fled into the woods,…
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before 1978
Mansfield, De Soto Cty, Louisiana
J. Frank McAneny talked to Shreveport deer hunter who said a creature bellowed in answer to a railroad whistle, ran up the steep railroad embankment, crossed the tracks and disappeared in the swamp below. He and a friend described it…
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before 1978
Mansfield, De Soto Cty, Louisiana
J. Frank McAneny talked to Shreveport oilfield worker who said he saw a black, hairy creature standing in the brush watching him as he did maintenance work. He got a rifle but decided not to shoot, as it was on…
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Jun 1978
Krotz Springs, St. Landry Cty, Louisiana
Leonce Boudreaux said he and his wife returned by car at 2.30 a.m. to their mobile home in a campground that he managed, and heard noises behind the trailer. He went to investigate and saw the same 7 to 8-foot…
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Jan 1978
Riceville, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Little Rhonda Duval found tracks when she went to fish in a pond behind her home just north of Bayou Queue De Tortue. Her father Nolan Duval and George Kutch investigated and Duval followed the tracks three quarters of a…
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Jan 1978
Crowley, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Martin Francis said he was walking by a stream near his house about 10 a.m. when he saw something like "a big ape" bent over by a stream eating minnows. He threw rocks at it and it hopped away downstream…
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Sep 1978
Covington, St. Tammany Cty, Louisiana
Security guard T. Jenkins reported seeing a sasquatch at two or three o'clock in the morning in the woods behind Highland Park Hospital outside Covington.
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Nov 1978
Krotz Springs, Landry Cty, Louisiana
Jack Potter told the sheriff that when he and a girl friend were driving home on a deserted road near a stream they heard some loud growling and were confronted by a huge creature covered with reddish hair running very…
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Nov 1978
Krotz Springs, Landry Cty, Louisiana
Unnamed youth counsellor from Alabama said he saw an 8 ft. hairy biped about 11.30 p.m. It disappeared in woods.
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Jan 1978
Winnabow, Brunswick Cty, North Carolina
Hunters found tracks in a timbered area. Not clear whether Charlie Taylor or Carter Rabon or someone else found them first.
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1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Taylor Falls, hunting deer in the South Mountains saw a black, hairy creature about 6.5 feet tall, run out of tree coveer across a field. This would be the first of the "Knobby" series of sightings, but it is not…
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1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Minnie Cook heard her dog barking fiercely, went to the front of her house and saw the creature standing at the edge of the woods. It stood looking at her and her dog for about 10 minutes. No size is…