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Jan 1978
Three Rivers, Tulare Cty, California
About 3,000 feet on the Kaweah River, (presumably Middle Fork, presumably in Sequoia National Park) Mrs. W.L. Nelsen was frog-hunting with her children when they came on a set of tracks 14.5" by 9" by 4.5", with four toes, and…
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Jun 1978
Ridgecrest, Kern Cty, California
Douglas Bruce Groves and his teenage brother and sister were hunting for rattlesnakes on old Hwy. 395 when they saw a pair of glowing eyes above a creosote bush just off the road. Groves stopped his jeep about 30 feet…
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1978
Palmdale, Los Angeles Cty, California
At home at Ave. L-8 and Sierra Highway, witness saw a hairy creature est. 8 feet tall standing under a tree. No further specifics.
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Feb 1978
Davenport, Lincoln Cty, Washington
Sed Englund and Robert Harsley were looking for at real estate when Horsley spotted tracks in snow about 15 feet to one side of the Bonneville Power road near Hawk Creek. They followed the road for a way, then turned…
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Apr 1978
Orting, Pierce Cty, Washington
Paula Owens writes that at 3 a.m. she was gagged by a terrible smell, looked out the window into their back woods where there was a space of light between the trees and saw two figures dart by. Light may…
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Aug 1978
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Cty, California
Keith Sanduci, Scott Sanducci and a boy named Eric, exploring trails around El Capitan Ranch Park in Santa Barbara, found two huge footprints. The right one was twisted as if crippled. (Letter to John Green says 16 inches, letter to…
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Apr 1978
Toppenish, Yakima Cty, Washington
Member of Yakima Nation who will not give name was fishing on Logy Creek near Logy Falls when he heard something in brush and grass behind him, turned and saw creature with a face like an ape and stood 7…
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May 1978
Bellingham, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Jeff Watson and William Marshall, security guards at Bellingham Airport, heard crashing sounds in the woods on airport property opposite an animal shelter (apparently South of the runways). The noise was moving West, so they drove to the end of…
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Aug 1978
Cougar, Skamania Cty, Washington
Sandy and Tex Jacobs were two of a group of nine camping two miles North of the mouth of Ape Canyon just off Forest Road N92 (Area destroyed in eruption of Mount St. Helens). About 1.30 a.m. their trailer rocked…
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Nov 1978
Sekiu, Clallam Cty, Washington
Checking a possible trapping area where two beaver ponds drain into Umbrella Creek just North of the road to Ozette Lake, Buck Adamire saw two sets of tracks crossing a sandbar. He examined one and found it was barefoot and…
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Nov 1978
Eatonville, Pierce Cty, Washington
Dave and brother hunting deer between Mashel River and Lunch Creek, Dave noticed something moving, and observed a grey-brown creature about 6.5 feet tall, covered with matted hair. It then appeared to smell him, looked at him, then left.
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Jan 1978
Newburg, Yamhill Cty, Oregon
Thomas Martin reported to state police that he had seen on two nights a 6-foot, 400 pound creature with a flat face, square teeth and hair 3.5 to 4 inches long all over its body. He said it was pulling…
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Mar 1978
Albany, Benton Cty, Oregon
Byron Forty, 14, and Terry (Perry?) Hayes, 13, out shooting with .22's, found 17-inch by 5.5-inch tracks in a two-acre plowed field by one of the Freeway Lakes. Tracks were very flat (poor photo looks too flat) with 5 toes,…
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Apr 1978
Rogue River, Jackson Cty, Oregon
Fred and Esther Eichorn found very large, barefoot prints in mud alongside a dirt road, apparently typical 16-inch, 5-toed tracks.
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Apr 1978
Hillslboro, Washington Cty, Oregon
Don Jackson's son, 17, changed a light bulb on the porch at 9 p.m. When the light went on a 7-foot biped ran past the house and into nearby woods. It was cream coloured, with matted hair. Next day found…
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Oct 1978
Heppner, Morrow Cty, Oregon
Larry Waldo was hidden behind some small evergreens, hunting elk near Penland Lake, and watching a skid road along the creek bottom of a ravine, when he watched for 5 minutes as a dark, black-brown creature walked along erect 600…
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Nov 1978
Hillsboro, Washington Cty, Oregon
Unidentified man called sheriff's office shortly after 3 a.m. to report that he had seen an 8-foot, furry creature walking around cars and looking through car windows near an overpass bridge on Baseline Road just East of Hillsboro.
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Aug 1978
Libby, Lincoln Cty, Montana
Ernest Fritz said he was going fishing about 5:30 a.m. from his ranch in the Yaak River area and paused at the edge of a meadow hoping to see a moose. A deer burst out of the timber into the…
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Nov 1978
Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai Cty, Idaho
Boyd Johnson was living in a camper truck by his trapline on the Coeur d'Alene River below Rose Lake, when he heard strange sounds in the night, close at hand, a repeated woof-woof-woof that caused a nearby dog to bark…
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Nov 1978
Weippe, Idaho Cty, Idaho
Ed Hafer took some of his family for a drive to the Musselshell Ranger Station area about 15 miles East of Weippe. Snow on the ground was about 2 feet deep, several inches of it from the night before. He…
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Apr 1978
Carlsbad, Eddy Cty, New Mexico
Families of Anita and Gene Bryan and Gail and Mike Waldrop camping at Rocky Creek recreation area in the Guadalupe Mountains near Sitting Bull Falls. Men fishing, women asleep in the car, men heard something walking around the camp and…
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1978
Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Cty, Alaska
On May 13, 1979, Paula Sue Apyer found on an island in Montana Creek, on her property South of Talkeetna, three partial footprints apparently made before the snow the preceding autumn. Five toes with an 8-inch spread, ball of a…
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Jan 1978
Dillingham, Dillingham Cty, Alaska
Jim Coffee encountered an 8-foot creature loping along the road on two legs, while driving to the airport near Iliamna. Skidded to a stop on icy road and then fired a few shots to scare the creature off. This was…
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Feb 1978
Dillingham, Dillingham Cty, Alaska
Unnamed residents of Iliamna reported seeing 18-inch tracks in snow leading from the local flight station to the airport, about two miles, and continuing into the hills. There were also handprints, and a rump imprint in three inches of snow.
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Jun 1978
Bellevue, Crows Nest Pas, Alberta
Robert Morin, 13, was setting gopher traps when he found a huge humanlike track on a mound near a gopher hole. He called the Blairmore Pass Herald and staff members took photos and saw two sizes of prints, one 18"…