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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Mar 1973 Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California

    First of several sighting reports in the Antelope Valley in the spring of 1973. Three marines told deputies at Lancaster that while driving west on Avenue J a quarter mile East of 110th St. E., a huge hairy thing the…

    #1000418 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. May 1973 Palmdale, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Ron Bailey driving into his yard at 4.15 a.m. got out of car and noticed silence, no dogs barking, then saw by the porch light a large shadow on the side of his duplex. The shadow was swaying, although there…

    #1000419 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  3. Jun 1973 Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Bret Baylor and his sister Stephanie were walking on a dirt road near their home on the edge of Lancaster about 10 a.m. when Bret saw on Lovejoy Butte a thing like an ape standing behind a boulder looking at…

    #1000420 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. Sep 1973 Quartz Hill, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Debby Baldridge, 20, and Sonny Harold Herring, 16, were delivering papers. Drove into a driveway at 51st and K, and as they turned the lights shone on a creature standing erect in a field close by. It was heavily built,…

    #1000421 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  5. 1973 Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Mike Pense was riding his motorbike through sandy buttes in the desert East of Lancaster, approximately 150th and G St. Stopped atop a ridge he saw a black, hairy, manlike creature standing erect among the rocks nearby. It threw boulders…

    #1000422 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Oct 1973 Pear Blossom, Los Angeles Cty, California

    At South Fork Campground in the San Gabriel Mountains 15 to 20 miles Southeast of Palmdale, CBFO found about 50 tracks 21 inches long by 10 1/2 inches wide, sinking 3 1/2 to 4 inches in the sand. Average stride…

    #1000423 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  7. Nov 1973 Pear Blossom, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Mrs. Margaret Bailey was waiting in a car at the South Fork campground while her husband and other California Bigfoot Organization members were out on patrol, when she saw a big black erect form, two or three feet taller than…

    #1000424 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  8. Dec 1973 Palmdale, Los Angeles Cty, California

    Queet White returning home at 5 p.m. saw a long way off "a big person, all one colour", walking towards her across the desert. She stopped, it stopped. Looked very wide. No neck. Went in house and got her brother,…

    #1000425 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. Mar 1973 Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California

    In an old reservoir about a mile from Kim McDonald's sighting, Rich Grumley and others from the California Bigfoot Organization, found some 13-inch footprints with 5 toes, first and fifth toes splayed wide. Not necessarily related to the sighting (1000397)

    #1000428 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  10. 1973 to 1974 Kern River, California

    Donna and friend were sleeping in a small trailer near the Kern River and about 2 a.m. it began to shake. They opened curtains and saw a broad face with glowing red eyes. The creature had broad shoulders, and its…

    #1000430 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Oct 1973 Hayfork, Trinity Cty, California

    Marron Grissom and Ron McLeod were sitting at campfire in a small clearing after walking 10 miles up Little Barker Creek when they heard a rustling on the hill nearby. They turned on their flashlights and saw two creatures standing…

    #1000443 two large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  12. Jan 1973 Eureka, Avenue of the Giants, California

    Tony Lamann said he was hauling logs from Grants Pass to Eurka on the Avenue of the Giants. As he rounded a curve a creature stepped out on the hightway and the truck hit it. It flew off to the…

    #1000562 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Sep 1973 Quincy, Plumas Cty, California

    Scott Hootman said that Doug Gleason and a friend, on trail between Feather River College and the college apartments, just after sunset, saw by streetlight three deer run across 30 feet of grass at the edge of the woods, followed…

    #1000563 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Oct 1973 Klamath Glen, Del Norte Cty, California

    Rick Blagden, deer hunting, was resting when something sneezed loudly behind him. He turned and saw a huge, furry, dark, barrel-like creature well over 6 feet tall, which stood there for a while then slowly walked down a steep hill…

    #1000564 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 1973 Hoopa, Humboldt Cty, California

    Dave McCoy said that his friend saw Bigfoot tracks more than once in 1973 during road construction on Pine Ridge.

    #1000565

  16. Oct 1973 Chico, Butte Cty, California

    Two girls, no identification or description, reported to Chico city police at 1.30 a.m. that while walking in the area of the Five-Mile Dam they were followed for a short distance by a 10-foot creature covered with very dark hair…

    #1000566 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. Jul 1973 Graham, Pierce Cty, Washington

    James Dawson writes that boy he knows told him that in 1973 (when 14 years old) his two younger sisters called him to see a creature walking on a road at a distance of about 200 yards. (Apparently seen from…

    #1000829 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  18. Apr 1973 Cle Elum, Kittitas Cty, Washington

    Steve MacDonald quoted Jim Thress, manager of a sport store, as saying three youths from Kirkland saw 15-inch tracks in the snow coming downhill East of the West Fork of the Teanaway River, crossing over and going up the hill…

    #1000830 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. Jul 1973 North Bonneville, Skamania Cty, Washington

    Louis Alway, with daughter Cindy, 7, saw a "Bigfoot" cross the highway West of Beacon Rock in front of his car, running upright, movement looked like slow motion, yet covered ground fast. Creature was 6 to 7 feet tall, brownish…

    #1000831 one small Creature description

  20. Jul 1973 Walla Walla, Walla Walla Cty, Washington

    Gregory Spies, his wife and a friend found a single footprint, about 14 inches by 6 inches, in a patch of disturbed earth to one side of a trail in the Wenaba backcountry. It was not visible from the trail.

    #1000832 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. Jul 1973 Silverdale, Kitsap Cty, Washington

    Carl Knight heard running feet, got up and saw form going down the road at fast jog. By night light next door saw it was an upright creature covered with hair, swaying "somewhat like an ape would walk." It ran…

    #1000833 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Aug 1973 Cle Elum, Kittitas Cty, Washington

    Mrs. Jane Brazda on August 3, 1973, told Joel Hurd that her brother, Mike Reddell, and his girlfriend had had a sasquatch experience the previous evening. Mike said they met a photographer named Tom Crawford, from Portland, on the trail…

    #1000834 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. Oct 1973 Greenwater, Pierce Cty, Washington

    Larry and Pat Becker took Nils Rosdahl to see a footprint they had found beside a logging road high up in Martin Gap in the drainage of the West Fork of the White River. It was in a lone muddy…

    #1000836 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  24. Nov about 1973 Dayton, Columbia Cty, Washington

    #1000838 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Dec 1973 Colville, Ferry Cty, Washington

    #1000839 one large, sex unknown Footprints