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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. Jul 1974 Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida

    Camping in a pit campsite in Croom Wildlife Reserve, about 12 miles northeast of Brooksville, Conrad and Nancy Paisley and their friends Jim and Bobby saw a 7-foot, dark brown, upright creature that had come part way down into the…

    #991630 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  2. Sep 1974 South Glade, Palm Beach Cty, Florida

    Gary Kanter, a security guard at an unfinished housing development at the south end of Lake Okeechobee, said he fired six times with a revolver at a 7-foot, hulking, hairy form that kept coming towards him despite warnings to stop.…

    #991631 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. Sep 1974 Weeki Wachee, Hernando Cty, Florida

    Elaine Ridout lives in a trailer in the woods on Sunshine Grove Road off Hwy 50 west of Brooksville. She has had more than one sighting, has reported to the sheriff. Three girls living on the same road are said…

    #991632 one, no description Creature description

  4. Oct 1974 Brooksville, Fernando Cty, Florida

    Unnamed woman ( Ramona interviewed her but recorded name only on tape) saw a 5-foot sasquatch on the front lawn of her home on Colorado Road, 5 miles west of Brooksville on Hwy 50. It was limping. Woman fired a…

    #991633 one small Creature description

  5. Oct 1974 Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida

    Two unnamed women driving in a dirt lane near Brooksville, encountered a huge black-haired creature sitting in the middle of the lane "so wide it filled the road". They turned around and left. There was a strong rotten odour. Sheriff's…

    #991634 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  6. Oct 1974 Fort Myers, Lee Cty, Florida

    Unnamed group reported that they saw a sasquatch on a backwoods road east of Fort Myers and it followed their car to the highway. Sheriff's bloodhounds followed a trail from the highway to a swamp.

    #991635 one, no description Creature description

  7. Dec 1974 Weeki Watchee, Hernando Cty, Florida

    David Frankfield and a woman saw a 7-foot sasquatch standing on the bank of the Weeki Watchee River about 15 miles west of Brooksville. It had huge hands, broad shoulders, glossy black hair, a black face, small beady eyes, a…

    #991636 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. about 1974 Polk City, Polk Cty, Florida

    Mrs. Peterson said she saw a sasquatch in her back pasture that ran crouched over, faster than a horse, with long flowing hair on its head and shoulders. In that area, near Green Swamp, 15-inch tracks were found in orange…

    #991637 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  9. about 1974 Polk City, Polk Cty, Florida

    Mrs. Peterson said that a boy claimed he hit a sasquatch on a dirt road while it was carrying an armload of corn. Hit by car

    #991638 one, no description Creature description

  10. Mar 1974 Doraville, De Kalb Cty, Georgia

    Mike and friend were investigating a shadow seen in a neighbour's yard and saw a 7-foot, light brown creature get up from a crouch and walk towards a swamp. That afternoon they found 22-inch and 10-inch footprints.

    #991735 one large, one small Creature description Footprints

  11. Jul 1974 Georgia

    Friend of H.G. Pilcher and other witnesses saw an 8-foot, brownish black sasquatch come out of a swamp by a cotton mill. It left footprints in red clay, no size given.

    #991737 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  12. Sep 1974 Dahlongea, Lumpkin Cty, Georgia

    Les Alexander, Bob Martin and Chris Stevens camped in Blackburn State Park, saw at 4.30 a.m. an 8-foot creature helping itself out of garbage cans. It made a high-pitched howl. Rangers at Henry Johnson State Park said local residents had…

    #991738 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  13. Dec 1974 Estherwood, Acadia Cty, Louisiana

    Eugene Miller and wife newly in rented house, heard something screaming about 10.30 p.m. Stayed up, scared, about 3 a.m. something scratched at the back door. Called game warden. Found a piece of multi-coloured hair. Game warden had it analyzed,…

    #991776 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 1974 Alcorn Cty, Mississippi

    Joe McKewen said in 1976 that two years ago there were reports of a large hairy creature around Alcorn Cty. Two boys said a large hairy creature knocked their cabin door down and started in. They got out and fled.

    #991795 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. May 1974 Morgantown, Burke Cty, North Carolina

    John Bamburg was camping in the South Mountains. After dinner his dog began whining and cowering, he looke around and saw creature at the edge of the clearing. When it started to leave he shot it and it ran into…

    #991809 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  16. Aug 1974 Henry Cty, Tennessee

    In an area where he and his brother Dan had a couple of what they believe were sasquatch encounters while duck hunting (presume in flooded area along Tennessee River, but latitude and longitude given are just central for Henry county)…

    #991855 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. Mar 1974 Ady, Harford Cty, Maryland

    #992057 one, no description Creature description

  18. May 1974 White Marsh, Baltimore Cty, Maryland

    Father Mark Andrzejczuk and three students were fishing in a swampy inlet of the Bird River off Ebenezer Road when they saw a huge apelike creature run upright chasing a deer through an opening in the swamp.

    #992058 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  19. Jun 1974 Cardiff, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Sasquatch seen carrying a deer.

    #992059 one, no description Creature description

  20. Jun 1974 Ady, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Stan McCarter and Frank White saw a sasquatch carrying a deer in a wooded area off Ady Road.

    #992060 one, no description Creature description

  21. 1974 Ady, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Two men saw a sasquatch walking up the lane on a nearby farm one evening.

    #992061 one, no description

  22. 1974 Ady, Harford Cty, Maryland

    Two cousins walking up the lane of a farm after dark, a tall, dark creature jumped out of the bushes and ran away on two legs. One cousin was involved in another sighting at Ady two years later.

    #992068 one, no description Creature description

  23. Jul 1974 Freeport, New Hampshire

    John Olwald, a UFO investigator, talked to two people who saw a dark furred, muscular, 6 to 7-foot creature as they turned their cars in a turnaround at night. It had large shoulders, prominent nose, pointed chin, triangular face covered…

    #992215 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  24. 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

  25. 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