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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 1978 Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina

    Woodcutter making a delivery of cordwood saw what he thought was a bear in a field, backed up for a better view and watched about 5 minutes until it disappeared in thick undergrowth. Description mentions only colour, the magazine having…

    #991818 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. 1978 Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina

    Mrs. Clayton Candler was driving home about dusk when she stopped to look at what she thought was a cow beside the road and it got up on its hind legs and walked over to the car--while she fumbled with…

    #991819 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Dec 1978 Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina

    Sammy Price and wife Kay, just before Christmas, began hearing unearthly screams from the nearby woods. One night he saw something 6 or 7 feet high, estimated 250 to 300 pounds, apparently black all over, but could not see it…

    #991820 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Dec 1978 Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina

    Sammy Price found in the woods back of his house a den under an uprooted pine with an entrance about 3 feet high and with tracks inside, long, slender and resembling human except flat-footed and with a thumb-like protrusion almost…

    #991824 one, no description Creature description Footprints

  5. 1978 Marshall, Harrison Cty, Texas

    Two residents of the Sand Hill area (not on map) have reported sightings to Harrison County authorities of a white creature that stands up like a human. One man said it seemed to be sitting, on top of a hill,…

    #991895 one, no description Creature description

  6. Jun 1978 Vidor, Orange Cty, Texas

    Bobby Bussinger and wife Beckie, in house on North Tram Road, had something howling and yelping at night and clawing at window screens. Bobby went out with a shotgun and approached the creature at the back of his cleared lot.…

    #991896 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. Jul 1978 Rogers, Milam Cty, Texas

    Near Ad Hall (not on map) Jeffrey Gelner was waiting for his grandfather, John J. Gelner who was combining in a maise field when he heard a growl behind him. He ran but looked back, saw a big brown hairy…

    #991897 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  8. Aug 1978 Georgetown, Travis Cty, Texas

    Brief account says 8-foot hairy creature resembling a human was tracked into a slough near the Little River. There was an odour of dead flesh, 24-inch footprints and claw marks on trees.

    #991898 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  9. Aug 1978 Neylandville, Hunt Cty, Texas

    Harvey Garrison, Wolfe City High School senior, visiting friend in South Sulphur, saw brown, 7 to 8-foot creature beside a country road and nearly hit it. It went over the road in one step, into the ditch with the next,…

    #991899 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Aug 1978 Neylandville, Hunt Cty, Texas

    Wayne Matlock, Anthony Wilson and Ray Rutherford were walking about midnight on the same road where Harvey Garrison had seen a creature two nights before. They heard a noise and tried to see an animal behind a small tree. The…

    #991900 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Aug 1978 Neylandville, Hunt Cty, Texas

    Wayne Matlock, Anthony Wilson and Ray Rutherford were walking about midnight on the same road where Harvey Garrison had seen a creature two nights before. They heard a noise and tried to see an animal behind a small tree. The…

    #991901 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  12. Mar 1978 Middlebrook, Augusta Cty, Virginia

    Spokesman said seven employees repairing damage after ice storm were moving through a pasture on a rough-terrain vehicle when they saw in the headlights a creature that ran upright like a man, but "there was no way a man could…

    #991925 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. 1978 Chesapeake, Virginia

    Navy commander reported to have seen a sasquatch-like creature in Northwest River Park.

    #991927 one, no description

  14. Aug 1978 Oceana, Wyoming Cty, West Virginia

    Bill Pruitt heard a sound like babies crying, later spotted under a street lamp what looked like a huge man. As he got out of his car to investigate it "hunkered down" by the river bank, and the next thing…

    #991948 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. Apr 1978 Danbury, Fairfield Cty, Connecticut

    Ben Holten milking cows at 5 a.m., found animals acting strangely, then smelled awful odour. Outside barn ast an 8-foot, dark brown creature standing 20 feet away looking at him. Father called sheriff, and they found 22.5-inch tracks in the…

    #991955 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  16. before 1978 Rockwood, Somerset Cty, Maine

    Don Wilson and Joe Smith on hunting trip 20 miles from Rockwood on the edge of a big lake, woke at 2 a.m. to see big hairy head looking in cabin window. It stayed five minutes, when it left they…

    #991960 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  17. Mar 1978 Jarretsville, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Ken Wolinsky reported seeing a sasquatch off Rte 165.

    #992093 one, no description

  18. 1978 Street, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Ray Norman told of seeing sasquatch several times walking on his farm of Rte 543.

    #992096 one, no description Creature description

  19. Feb 1978 Forest Hill, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Phil Adams reported that a huge animal with long hair "down on all fours" attacked his farm animals. Neighbours reported seeing dogs chasing a large hairy creature.

    #992097 one, no description Creature description

  20. Feb 1978 Port Deposit, Harford Cty, Maryland

    A sasquatch sighted exiting an abandoned blast shelt near an old quarry at Rock Run in the area of the Susquehanna River.

    #992098 one, no description Creature description

  21. Feb 1978 Norrisville, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Unidentified witness said a sasquatch stepped onto a back road and approached him.

    #992099 one, no description Creature description

  22. Feb 1978 Rocks, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Bob Lazarra, plotting reports from southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, went looking for tracks in Rocks State Park, along a creek he thought the creature was following. He found nearly a mile and a half of tracks sinking 7 to…

    #992100 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  23. Mar 1978 Madonna, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Janice and Renee Terry watched a large gorilla-like creature standing at the back of their property for about 5 minutes. When their dogs approached the creature a smaller, similar beast walked over to the larger one, took its hand, and…

    #992101 one large, one small Creature description

  24. Mar 1978 Forest Hill, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Carol Keyser reported seeing a sasquatch.

    #992102 one, no description

  25. Apr 1978 Granite, Baltimore Cty, Maryland

    A farmer on Davis Road reported seeing a bipedal creature walking across his field followed by two smaller creatures down on all fours.

    #992103 more than one, no description Creature description