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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jun 1973 Pine Bluff, Jefferson cty, Arkansas

    Two boys told Deputy Johnny Wilson that in the woods near their home they had encountered a large shaggy "monster" coverd with dark hair which ran off without threatening them. They said it was usually around at night. Location is…

    #991555 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. May 1973 Pine Bluff, Jefferson Cty, Arkansas

    Sandra, Jessie, Ricky and Sandra were parked at a dumping pit off Gravel Pit Road waiting out heavy rain about 7.30 p.m. when Sandra saw a vast, dark hairy creature looking through the back windshield with glowing red eyes. Others…

    #991556 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  3. Nov 1973 Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas

    Orvile Scroggins, his son and grandson were helping a cow deliver a calf when they heard cows bellowing, looked up and saw a 4-foot upright creature with long black hair waling in a field about 100 yards away. Several tracks…

    #991557 one small Creature description Footprints

  4. Dec 1973 Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas

    Rene Scribner, a member of Ron Olson's organization investigating in Arkansas, said on the phone that there had been a sighting, and that tracks going back and forth showed four toes. Details were to be reported to Ron.

    #991558 one, no description Creature description Footprints

  5. Oct 1974 Fordyce, Dallas Cty, Arkansas

    Myzell Thompson, 27, heard dogs barking in front yard and saw something moving in the brush. Got a flashlight and 30-30; in light saw creature like a gorilla at least 7 feet tall and shot at it twice. It turned…

    #991559 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. Oct 1974 Holly Springs, Dallas Cty, Arkansas

    Two weeks or more before Fordyce report, 1559, about 20 miles through the woods away, a similar creature was seen five or six times and one man said he shot it and definitely hit it, according to Mrs. Clyde Williams,…

    #991560 one large, sex unknown

  7. Mar 1975 Camden, Quachita Cty, Arkansas

    Police Chief David Bentley stated that a Camden Man had reported seeing a creature seven or eight feet tall and completely covered with hair at the intersection of Salem and Winston Streets as he was driving by at 12.35 a.m.…

    #991561 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. May 1975 Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas

    Michael Johnson found tracks in the woods near the Smith beanfield where they had first been reported in 1971. (1554)

    #991562 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  9. Aug 1978 Lavaca, Sebastian Cty, Arkansas

    Brief report from Lavaca that there are rumors of a BHM (big hairy monster) that appears near a local lovers' lane and beats on the hoods of automobiles. Tracks indicate 6 toes.

    #991563 Creature description Footprints

  10. Feb 1978 Leachville, Mississippi Cty, Arkansas

    Larry Fullerton quoted that shortly after dusk on route 77 out of Leachville, a well-proportioned 8-foot creature covered with 6-inch hair ran in front of his truck for half a mile, on its hind legs, slowing or speeding as the…

    #991564 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  11. Mar 1978 Appleton, Pope Cty, Arkansas

    Joe Cook and another man found giant tracks in the first week of March, along a dirt road crossing a mountain between Appleton and Center Ridge. Cook made some poor casts. At one point the maker "stepped flat footed over…

    #991565 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  12. Mar 1978 Center Ridge, Conway Cty, Arkansas

    Weldon Flowers and Rick Paladino found tracks along Hwy 124, near Center Ridge telephone exchange. They were later studied by Coach Jim Reynolds, Nemo Vista High School, Superintendent T.O. Adams and students, and Bob Harrison. Harrison then found some more…

    #991566 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  13. Jun 1978 Crossett, Ashley Cty, Arkansas

    Mike Lofton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Lofton, was feeding his puppy, alone at their trailer home, when the dog whined. He looked up and saw a huge hair-covered creature with arms extended overhead and, he said, three long,…

    #991567 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Aug 1978 Benton, Saline Cty, Arkansas

    Mrs. Mildred Wilton called Benton police after hearing something rattling a chain link fence in her back yard. She looked out and saw what looked like a gorilla a foot taller than the 4-foot fence. Police found a large footprint…

    #991568 one small Creature description Footprints

  15. about 1979 Fouke, Miller Cty, Arkansas

    Tracy Wilson, then about 10, was playing with a tea set in her backyard when she looked up and saw a 7-foot creature with long black hair about 30 yards away. She slowly walked back into the house.

    #991569 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. May 1988 Jonesboro, Craighead Cty, Arkansas

    Bobby Ray Gibson said that as he was driving home at 9.50 p.m. he saw what looked like a sasquatch come from the driveway apron of Oak Grove Missionary Church on Hwy 349. It crossed the road in three strides,…

    #991570 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. May 1988 Jonesboro, Craighead Cty, Arkansas

    Joe Cagle and Mack and Sheila Lanthrop were driving north on Hwy 226 near Jonesboro when something seemed to come from behind a nearby house and ran down the roadside ditch beside the car, then crossed the highway in three…

    #991571 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  18. May 1988 Jonesboro, Craighead Cty, Arkansas

    Nelson Catalina returning from banquet at night had just turned left at the intersection of Hwys 226 and 49 and was going north on 226 when a 7-foot creature crossed in front of the car, leaped across a ditch and…

    #991572 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. May 1988 Jonesboro, Craighead Cty, Arkansas

    Jackie Newberry was driving a school bus with a coach and 15 students returning from a baseball game. On Hwy 349 near Westside School as the bus was starting up a hill a black furry creature 6 or 7 feet…

    #991573 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. May 1988 Jonesboro, Craighead Cty, Arkansas

    Janna Bowen and Teresa Ryan were near Oak Grove Church on Hwy 349 at night, no time stated, when something black, hairy, tall and slender with long legs and arms leaped in front of the car, crossed the road and…

    #991574 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. Oct 1990 Fort Lynn, Miller Cty, Arkansas

    Jim Walls and Charles Humbert were driving north on Hwy 71 near the Sulphur River bridge at 8.15 a.m. when they saw a monster that ran upright from a clearing to the river bank, "jumped down the 30-foot bank into…

    #991575 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  22. Jan 1980 Wilmot, Ashley Cty, Arkansas

    John Simms enroute to Overflow Swamp bottoms to do some trapping when truck broke down on North Mile Road (dirt and gravel) in woods half a mile from the swamp. Waiting for another man who had gone for parts, Simms…

    #992686 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  23. about 1920 Booneville, Logan Cty, Arkansas

    R.L. Roberts said that his great grandfather told him about 1960 about two encounters with sasquatch near Pilot and Whiteoak Mountains southwest of Booneville. The first was on Pilot Mountain, where he saw a creature taller and heavier than he…

    #992730 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. early 1920's Booneville, Logan Cty, Arkansas

    Great grandfather told R.L. Roberts that a hairy manlike creature was after his horse, which was trying to pull away from a tree it was tied to. When he went to check on the commotion the creature ran into the…

    #992731 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Oct 1996 Bismark, Hot Springs Cty, Arkansas

    Driving on Hwy 7 North, observer and daughter saw a 7 to 8-foot furry creature walking across the highway at the outer limit of their high beams, then when they passed the spot they saw it standing beside the road…

    #992732 one large, sex unknown Creature description