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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 1985 Mississippi

    Driving in central Mississippi, saw what looked like a dead tree beside the road. It got up, crossed the road in two steps, stopped and looked back at car. Hair covered except face, 7 ft. tall, deepset eyes shone red…

    #992956 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. 1960's Missouri

    Elmo Reed wrote that he was one of a group of 10 who investigate things that come into barnyards and kill calves and sheep. He has seen tracks a number of times.

    #991251 Creature description Footprints

  3. Jun 1925 Alton, Oregon Cty, Missouri

    This entry combines three reports over a period of three weeks. State road workers reported a strange beast crossing a highway, and later parties noortheast of Alton reported something in the woods that walked like a man. Then Lewis Botha,…

    #991252 one, no description Creature description

  4. late 1940's Missouri

    Creature reported to live in southeastern swamps. It ripped apart cows and horses but abandoned the carcasses without eating them. Someone shot and killed it but it still could not be identified. "It was something like a gorilla."

    #991253 Creature description

  5. 1947 Missouri

    Glenn Payne said he heard from a cousin, Martin Burford, that coon hunters had chased a thing that had been killing sheep and goats, but it killed the dogs. Payne chased it with his "hog dogs" and saw in lights…

    #991254 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. May 1966 St. Joseph, Buchanan Cty, Missouri

    Larry Lawhon, then a teenager, went with friends to a place where another youth was reported to have bumped into a hairy creature on a roadway in the woods at the northern edge of Krug Park in the northern part…

    #991255 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  7. Aug 1968 Kinloch, St. Louis Cty, Missouri

    Woman said an animal grabbed her 4-year-old nephew in her backyard, she saw it and screamed and the dog went after it, it dropped the boy and fled into the woods. She said it looked like a bear. The boy…

    #991256 one, no description Creature description

  8. 1980 Frankford, Pike Cty, Missouri

    Letter regarding Missouri sasquatch sightings mentions one on the edge of Frankford. No other information.

    #991257 one, no description Creature description

  9. Jul 1971 Busch, Pike Cty, Missouri

    Joan Mills and Mary Ryan driving on Highway 29 north of Louisian turned off on dirt road for a picnic lunch, then smelled something awful and saw a half-man half-ape creature standing in the weeds staring at them. It looked…

    #991258 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  10. Jun 1972 Troy, Lincoln Cty, Missouri

    Fishermen saw sasquatch wade the Cuivre River near Cuivre State Park and then walk along the bank towards them.

    #991259 one, no description Creature description

  11. Jul 1972 Louisiana, Pike Cty, Missouri

    This brief incident and a swirl of vague follow-up reports started a wave of publicity for "Momo, the Missouri monster." Apparent embellishments had the creature with a bleeding dead dog in its arms, and later a dog or sheep in…

    #991260 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  12. Jul 1972 New Haven, Warren Cty, Missouri

    Daughter of Leonard Strubberg, driving in early morning, saw a huge, silver-grey sasquatch walking in a field.

    #991261 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Jul 1972 O'Fallon, St. Charles Cty, Missouri

    Two teenage girls saw bigfoot walking at the edge of a wooded area near sundown.

    #991262 one, no description Creature description

  14. 1975 to 1976 Strafford, Greene Cty, Missouri

    Keith Sanducci and Tom Taylor were two boys who published a newsletter in 1979. David Comstock told them he was riding a dirt bike in deep woods at Strafford when he saw an apelike creature looking at him. He said…

    #991263 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. May 1977 Pacific, Franklin Cty, Missouri

    Wife said her husband saw the creature while driving home from work about 8.30 p.m., where Denton Road crosses Brush Creek. It got out of the creek to walk across the road, assumed too tall to go under the bridge.…

    #991264 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. Oct 1975 Pacific, Franklin Cty, Missouri

    Wife said her husband saw the creature where Denton Road crosses Brush Creek, same place he saw a larger creaturein 1977 (1264).

    #991265 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  17. Sep 1982 Branson, Taney Cty, Missouri

    Checking traps in woods by creek around midnight, Branson man said he saw a large hairy creature with an awful smell bent over the creek bank catching and eating crawfish. He was sure it was not a man or a…

    #991266 one, no description Creature description

  18. 1956 to 1957 Potosi, Washington Cty, Missouri

    Playing hide and seek, Ed Horton went to hide in an old corn crib in a field. Heard heavy breathing behind him, saw huge manlike creature covered with hair and smelling like a hog pen standing behind him. He fled.

    #992088 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. 1990 to 1991 Cyrene, Pike Cty, Missouri

    Going camping with a friend at the back of the family farm near Cyrene, informant was going for wood on a all-terrain vehicle when he (might be she) saw a creature in a creek that looked like a large ape…

    #992687 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  20. 1988 to 1989 Waynesville, Pulaski Cty, Missouri

    About 7 p.m. driving South on Hwy.17, just before entering Waynesville, rounded a corner and saw a 7 to 8-foot thing standing in the middle of the road. S. and C.M. stopped after passing and a car going the other…

    #992772 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  21. May 1998 Ironton, Iron Cty, Missouri

    Tim McCall and his brother were on top of Proffit Mountain, hiking on the Taum Sauk Mountain trail. In a forest glade they came on a track in some fresh mud, not strikingly long, but 7 to 8 inches wide.…

    #992773 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  22. Jun 1997 Palmyra, Marion Cty, Missouri

    Brian McCune was riding a four wheeler on an old gravel road 4 miles from the nearest house when he saw what he took for a dog 200 yards ahead in a corn field. As he got closer it stood…

    #992834 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 1976 Middletown, Montgomery Cty, Missouri

    Driving on a country road north of Middletown, father of W. Flanders saw a large dark shape in a pasture, 7 to 9 feet tall, covered with black hair. As vehicle approached it moved to the cover of Coon Creek.…

    #992851 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. 1977 Osceola, St. Clair Cty, Missouri

    Setting up tent camp at Sunrise Beach (non-swimming) beside the Osage River father gathering firewood found 18" humanlike track in dried-up creek bed, before breakfast. Family all went to look. Shortly after they saw a large, brownish, hair-covered creature behind…

    #992925 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  25. 1988 to 1989 Waynseville, Pulaski Cty, Missouri

    Steve and Christi Moore were driving to Waynesville about 7 p.m. on Hwy 17, and on a stretch between a blasted bluff and the Roubidoux Creek/Gasconade River, rounded a corner and saw a 7 to 8-foot hair-covered creature standing 'frozen'…

    #992926 one large, sex unknown Creature description