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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. about 1973 Swartswood, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Two temporary rangers at Swartswood State park travelling road to camping area at 6.30 a.m. saw an animal 4 to 5 feet high, bipedal and covered with hair, cross the road in front of the car. It turned and looked…

    #992229 one small Creature description

  2. Oct 1973 Middletown, Monmouth Cty, New Jersey

    Girl, 16, saw a 7-foot, hair-covered creature standing in a garden with two smaller creatures, also covered with hair and standing erect.

    #992230 other group of large and small Creature description

  3. 1973 High Point, Sussex Ct;y, New Jersey

    Man pulled into his driveway in the mountains near High Point in late evening and saw a huge, hair-covered upright creature standing at the corner of the house. It walked around the corner and he pursued with a flashlight and…

    #992231 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. 1974 Plymouth Lake, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Plymouth Lake is not on a road map, may be a town or a lake. Boys were playing in the woods about 4 p.m. when they heard a grunt, looked up and saw a hairy man staring at them. They…

    #992232 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  5. early 1970's Balesville, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Driving home one night on the east side of Lake Owassa, drunk, man hit a 6 to 8-foot hairy biped with his jeep.

    #992233 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. early 1970's High Point, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    A catch-all report. Two High Point State Park rangers have heard strange screams and found apparently barefoot human prints in the snow with a stride humans could not duplicate. A ranger also saw red glowing eyes about eight feet off…

    #992234 Creature description Footprints

  7. Nov 1974 High Point, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Three hunters jacklighting deer in late afternoon in High Point State Park heard something crashing through the woods and smelled a powerful rotten egg smell and heard growling noises. A hairy creature over 8 feet tall stepped out of the…

    #992235 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. about 1975 Newton, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Man on his way to Newton, leaving the cloverleaf off Rte 15, saw a sasquatch cross the road in front of him and disappear in the woods.

    #992236 one, no description Creature description

  9. Feb 1975 High Point, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Jack Card and Richard Strain found two sets of humanlike tracks in snow, 16 inch and 18 inch, with strides from 4 to 6 feet. They travelled parallel for several hundred yards, then one went away 40 or 50 yards…

    #992237 two large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  10. Date unknown Location unknown

    #992238 Footprints

  11. Feb 1975 Frankford, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Coming over a rise on the edge of Bear Swamp about 3 a.m., John Christman had to step on the brake to avoid hitting an 8 to 9-foot grey sasquatch already walking across the road. It paid no attention to…

    #992239 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Mar 1975 Swartswood, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Jay Adams said he had had two sightings on Hwy 521 in the Swartswood area near Bear Swamp, once with his wife and once with his son, of a creature 8 to 9 feet tall and covered with greyish fur.…

    #992240 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. May 1975 Sparta, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Gene Riesback driving to work at 8 a.m., rounding a cloverleaf saw a 6 to 7-foot biped, brown-grey, with a domed head and long arms, about 70 feet away, walking away.

    #992241 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. Jun 1975 Hainesville, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Irv Raser said he was emptying trash barrels at the upper end of Bear Swamp and went to check a piece of property. Climbing a knoll overlooking the swamp he heard a ruckus and then saw hairy, apelike creature in…

    #992242 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 1975 Hamburg, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    This may be a mix of two different reports, but all items entered do appear in at least one. Boys were cycling on a trail around the lake when an 8 to 9-foot creature crossed their path, coming from the…

    #992243 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. 1975 Swartswood, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Elderly man living west of Swartswood near Plymouth Lake, while walking in pine woods on a Sunday afternoon heard a noise in the trees, saw beneath the branches a set of large hairy legs with humnalike feet, then saw in…

    #992244 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. 1976 White Meadow Lake, Morris Cty, New Jersey

    Quarry worker while at work saw in broad daylight a tall, hairy, manlike creature. It seemed to have shoulder-length hair.

    #992245 one, no description

  18. Aug 1976 White Meadow Lake, Morris Cty, New Jersey

    Two boys picking berries saw an 8-foot, hairy creature with red eyes and large hands as it walked through the foliage.

    #992246 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. Aug 1976 White Meadow Lake, Morris Cty, New Jersey

    Keith Shulman said that a group of his friends saw a 10-foot, black, hairy creature in the woods behind Comanche Ave., and three of them, Johnny Halpin, Carl Hooverman and Joseph Olmstead ran after it. "It jumped at Johnny and…

    #992247 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. 1976 White Meadow Lake, Morris Cty, New Jersey

    Woman saw a large dark form in her back yard at dusk. Five-toed, 17-inch footprints were found.

    #992248 one, no description Creature description Footprints

  21. Jul 1976 Bernardsville, Somerset Cty, New Jersey

    Scott Ferguson, Lisa Farrelll and Jennifer Starzecki found 11 footprints, 17 inches long, three toes, in woods near Ferrante's quarry, and showed them to some of their parents.

    #992249 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  22. Aug 1976 Bernardsville, Somerset Cty, New Jersey

    Scott Ferguson, Lisa Farrelll and Jennifer Starzecki found 11 footprints, 17 inches long, three toes, in woods near Ferrante's quarry, and showed them to some of their parents.

    #992250 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  23. May 1977 Wantage Township, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    In the morning Barbara Sites heard a scream from the swamp in the woods on their 120-acre farm, then found the door ripped off the building where their pet rabbits were and the rabbits crushed to death. About 9 p.m.…

    #992251 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. May 1977 Wantage Township, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    The evening after Debbie Sites sighting, Richard and Barbara Sites, Edward Conklin and Kenneth Vanorton waited to see if the creature would return, and when it did they went out and fired at it with two shotguns and two .22…

    #992252 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  25. Jan 1978 Green Township, Sussex Cty, New Jersey

    Marilyn Henderson rode her horse from Sultana Stables through several fields into the Wittingham Fish and Wildlife Management area. About a quarter mile from the stable she came on "monstrous" footprints in the snow and followed them on horseback. They…

    #992253 one large, sex unknown Footprints