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1974
Rockport, Mendocino Cty, California
A friend told Grover Krantz that Reginald Tolbert saw a large, wide, manlike creature in the early morning on the South Fork of the Eel River midway between Rockport and Laytonville. It was dark brown or black, and "casually moved…
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1974
Burnt Ranch, Trinity Cty, California
Driving West on Hwy 299 about 3 or 4 a.m., between Burnt Ranch and Grays Falls, rounded a bend and saw a black-brown crature, broad at the shoulder, standing in the road 60 feet ahead. It turned its body, hadn't…
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Sep 1974
Vacaville, Solano Cty, California
Dana Pierscinski was walking on Mix Canyon Road near the top of Mount Vaca when he saw a figure stride out on the road ahead silhouetted against the sky at the top of a rise. It stopped, turned and looked…
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Nov 1974
Colville, Stevens Cty, Washington
Gary Larson, a Washington State University student, told Dr. Krantz that he and another student, Gary Butler, had encountered five or six prints in deep snow-slush, later frozen and covered by new snowfall. They went diagonally up a shallow slope…
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May 1974
Gig Harbor, Pierce Cty, Washington
Fred Van Camp was walking two dogs in a heavily wooded area a half mile from his home about 7.30 p.m. when the dogs took off after something, and he saw a creature jump from a crouched position and crash…
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Jun 1974
Maple Valley, King Cty, Washington
Tony McLennan saw an animal in the ditch, thought it might be an injured dog, drove within 5 feet. It stood up, estimated 8 ft., humanlike face, red glowing eyes, covered with dark hair. Police called, ground too hard for…
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Jul 1974
Yale, Cowlitz Cty, Washington
Jim Stepp told Tony Healy that he saw a grey sasquatch in his yard at Speelyai (not on map) on Lake Merwin (Lewis River). Track Record, Ray Crowe gives the location as 10 miles East of Ariel, which would be…
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Aug 1974
Marietta, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Phayer Phair, 13, said he was entering the Nooksack River from Bellingham Bay when he saw two sasquatches standing on a sandbar about 175 feet away looking at him. He thought one was a female. The bigger one picked up…
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Oct 1974
Amboy, Cowlitz Cty, Washington
Loggers working for Cyril Gillette found 165 huge barefoot tracks in deep dust where they were working somewhere South of Lake Merwin. Exact location kept secret; also reference to the tracks heading into the Siouxon area, which is East of…
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Nov 1974
Spokane, Spokane Cty, Washington
Eric Frank told sheriff's officers that he and two friends say an 11-foot creature covered with brown hair, with slouchy shoulders and long arms, in the Forest Hills area North of Spokane. (Forest Hills not on map.)
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Jun 1974
Cave Junction, Josephine Cty, Oregon
Thomas Edmonds, with Mr. Polk and Nancy Graybill, followed tracks 23" by 8.5" approx. in sand patches on banks of Sucker Creek, starting from where the Cave Highway crosses the creek across the road from Grayback fores service guard house,…
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1974
Astoria, Clatsop Cty, Oregon
A former Astoria police officer said that he talked to two men who saw a reddish-buff sasquatch looking at them from a distance while they were hunting elk "away back in". It was big. The creature just studied them for…
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Jul 1974
Astoria, Clatsop Cty, Oregon
Heidi Ballard told of seeing a buff-coloured infant sasquatch near the railroad spur East of Tongue Point Job Corp., east of Astoria. No information except size and colour.
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Mar 1974
Florence, Lane Cty, Oregon
Nick Wells was walking to school when he smelled a rotten stench, heard a deep growl and then heavy thudding steps in the brush and a panting growl. Whatever was there was keeping pace with him, stopped when he stopped,…
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May 1974
Hood River, Hood River Cty, Oregon
Jack Cochran was operating a log loader on Fir Mountain (not on 1:250,000 map) somewhere North of Mount Hood mountain and South of Mount Hood town when he saw at the edge of the clearcut a broad-shouldered creature about 7…
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May 1974
Hood River, Hood River Cty, Oregon
At the same logging operation as Jack Cochran (1001049), on the following day, Fermin Osborne saw a big, hair-covered, broad-shouldered creature walk off on two legs.
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Dec 1974
Winston, Douglas Cty, Oregon
Twelve-year-old daughter of owner of Reston Shake Mill found tracks in the snow, 19 inches by 6.5 inches, in the snow behind the house and a corral where there were three horses and a cow, then passed up toward the…
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Jun 1974
Missoula, Missoula Cty, Montana
Jeff Schafer, 17, and a friend camping with parents near Lolo Hot Springs went motorcycling on logging road. Rounded a bend and a black, 9-foot creature ran in front of them. They hit the ditch. It sort of growled or…
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Sep 1974
Missoula, Ravalli Cty, Montana
Chris Tobias, Diane Stringen and Kathy Mudd were in a group of five climbing St. Mary's Peak. Shortly after Chris came out above the tree line, 400 yards from the top, he looked back and saw two figures he took…
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Dec 1974
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
A man reported the sheriff's office that he had seen a strange creature 7-8 feet tall walking upright towards him and had fired three shots at it with a 30.30 rifle. It kept coming and he got in his car…
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Jan 1974
Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho
Max Schafer was hunting with cougar hounds near Weippe, Idaho, in deep snow, most of it fallen the evening before. ILn thick brush he came on tracks apparently bipedal but much larger and deeper than his own. They went through…
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Oct 1974
Grangeville, Idaho Cty, Idaho
Bob Rose and Danny Rose, cousins, were deer hunting on an old skid road that separated timbered mountains on the East from pastureland to the West, 6 or 7 miles South of Grangeville, when they came on six large tracks…
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Dec 1974
McCall, Valley Cty, Idaho
According to the sheriff, Bobby Clark and Richard Aman, both 10, said that they saw a huge, manlike, fur-covered creature roaming a field just outside a McCall subdivision. Bobby described it as a "big gorilla." His mother, Sally Clark, went…
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Oct 1974
Medicine Hat, Seven Persons Creek, Alberta
"Observer" sent Leonard Edvardson sketches made the same evening of what was seen in Kin Coolee near Medicine Hat. The accompanying letters do not say so but the sketches clearly indicate a female carrying an infant. The creature was estimated…