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before 1981
LaPlace, St. John The Baptist Cty, Louisiana
Emmett Perilloux clearing land at LaPlace with a bulldozer. He and a friend found large footprints in the soft earth, goig from one swampy area to another. The left foot measured 20.5 inches, the right 19 inches.
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1973
Slidell, St. Tammany Cty, Louisiana
Swamp guide reported boat had run over something in a bayou, causing the outboard to kick up. Looking back they saw coming out of the water a black animal, about 5 feet, that went up the bank and ran into…
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Dec 1974
Estherwood, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Eugene Miller and wife newly in rented house, heard something screaming about 10.30 p.m. Stayed up, scared, about 3 a.m. something scratched at the back door. Called game warden. Found a piece of multi-coloured hair. Game warden had it analyzed,…
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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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May 1981
La Place, St. John The Baptist Cty, Louisiana
Harmon and Mark Levron were hunting snakes near Ruddock (7 miles north of La Place) when they smelled something horrible, heard a huge thing crashing through branches and saw a creature running deeper into the swamp.
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Aug 1977
La Place, St. John The Baptist Cty, Louisiana
Man from Lucy (across the Mississippi from La Place) said he saw a 7-foot creature covered with brown hair and walking on two feet cross a strip of land after going through a logoon, then enter the Mississippi River. Story…
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Oct 1977
Melville, St. Landry Cty, Louisiana
Leonce Boudreaux said that when walking in the woods he heard noises in the brush then heavy breathing behind hinm, so he left the woods and walked along a fence row, but stopped under some trees when it started to…
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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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Oct 1977
Winnfield, Winn Cty, Louisiana
Unconfirmed story circulated that a local squirrel hunter shot a 6-foot, two legged hairy creature which escaped into the woods in the Beech Creek area west of Sikes.
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Nov 1977
Bentley, Grant Cty, Louisiana
Tracks in Grant Parish went for half a mile down a muddy road, in the vicinity of Hwy 8. Sheriff L.R. Hataway later reported that plywood feet with metal toes about the right length and width ad been found near…
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Nov 1977
Converse, Sabine Cty, Louisiana
Helen Paddie found tracks leading from a heavily wooded area down a ditch, across the road and back into the woods. Mrs. J.W. Shemwells took a photo that appeared in the Mansfield Enterprise. Deputies made a plaster cast. Location four…
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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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Dec 1977
Riceville, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Mike Richards, hunting coon at night near the Bayou Queue De Tortue about 3 miles east of Riceville, three times had glimpses of a tall black creature with eyes reflecting red in their lights. Once it jumped a 6-foot fence…
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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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1979
Leesville, Vernon Cty, Louisiana
Playing on a fallen tree bridging a stream in a wooded area, Keith Knudsen saw a tall figure covered with dark hair running towards him on two legs. He turned and ran home and it kept running towards him until…
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1977
Farmerville, Union Par, Louisiana
Al West and his grandfather were loading firewood on a tuuck when a large black hairy creature appeared out of the woods, watched them for 30 seconds or so and walked briskly back into the woods. Approximately 7 miles north…
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late 1970's
Esler Field, Rapides Par, Louisiana
Then a little boy, Rick was playing outside at his family's new home in Esler Field (not on road map) at night. He went into the woods by their driveway and encountered a tall hairy creature with dark eyes and…
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about 1974
Woodworth, Rapides Par, Louisiana
Scott, about 8, camping with family near Indian Creek camping area, was awakened by raccoons going through garbage cans and stayed up to watch. Something splashed through a nearby creek, the raccoons disappeared, then a deep growl and grunting sounds…
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1980 to 1981
Honey Island Swamp, St. Tammany Cty, Louisiana
Father and son deer hunting in Honey Island Swamp, heard a splash as they were walking to the river (presumably a branch of the Pearl). They turned and saw about 75 yards away a dark hairy creature, very muscular, standing…
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Nov 1987
Oil City, Caddo Par, Louisiana
Duck hunting by boat on Black Bayou (near or part of Caddo Lake), informant landed to check a pond on the far side of a levee. He then caught a glimpse of a 6 ft., shaggy, dark brown creature est.…
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Oct 1980
Oakdale, Allen Cty, Louisiana
Jeff Johnson was hunting with a dog, and felt he was being watched. The dog went into a thicket, there was a scream and the dog fled home. Could make out a 7-foot form, very large, facing him. It started…