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Jan 1979
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Mrs. Sally White checking why dog was barking and jumping up, saw something long and black coming up through the woods. She had seen the same thing twice before, just before Christmas and just after, but gives no further description.
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1979
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
A catch-all entry for items of description supplementing those mentioned in individual reports.
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Dec 1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Sammy Price found in the woods back of his house a den under an uprooted pine with an entrance about 3 feet high and with tracks inside, long, slender and resembling human except flat-footed and with a thumb-like protrusion almost…
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Sep 1981
Shelby, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Robert Hunt saw creature as he was walking to his home in Swainsville (not on road map) He ran home and got a shotgun. His mother, Mrs. Gene Hunt, watched him cross the road and shoot at it. It started…
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Mar 1992
Asheville, Haywood Cty, North Carolina
Marco Bryant said there had been three sasquatch sightings in the past three or four weeks near Asheville and he would write more details. He did not. He said it ran across the road semi-upright with its arms in the…
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Nov 1994
Oakboro, Stanly Cty, North Carolina
Informant had turned off Hwy 138 between Oakbora and Aquadale onto Old School Road when she saw something standing on the left side of the road. She put her headlights on bright, drove straight to it and stopped. It was…
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1790's
Mars Hill, Madison Cty, North Carolina
Gentleman writes a friend in Boston describing animals 12 to 15 feet high, hairy, dark dun colour, head "drawn in somewhat like a tarapin". Said to live mainly on Bald Mountain and to attack travellers, "in which attempt some have…
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1973
Cullowhee, Jackson, North Carolina
Driving on a back road in the mountains between Franklin and Cullowhee, North Carolina, about 11.30 p.m., R.D. Britt and girlfriend saw a 7.5-foot creature cross the road in two steps. It paused half way and stared at them, its…
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Oct 1982
Elizabeth City, Pasquatank Cty, North Carolina
John Cartwright, a city boy going hunting with a friend and father, stayed in deer stand from 5 a.m. to 9, saw many deer and a bear but didn't shoot, then smelled sewer-type odour, heard twigs snapping and an 8-foot…
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Apr 1983
Hendersonville, Henderson Cty, North Carolina
Driving north on Hwy. 26 between 1 and 3 a.m. Scott McClean was startled by a 3 to 4-foot, brown, pointy-headed creature that walked in front of the car on two legs swinging its arms. He hit the brakes, waking…
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Mar 1988
Busick, Yancey Cty, North Carolina
Anonymous informant, four-wheeling on Mount Mitchell, highest peak in eastern U.S. (6,684 ft), with some friends, mile below peak saw tracks in deep snow beside the road, 14" x 7", up to 18" deep. Went up bank bipedally, taking two…
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Sep 1998
Lenoir, Caldwell Cty, North Carolina
Chad Triplett, fishing in Wilson Creek Gorge on Brown Mountain beach road, close to "the lady on the rock", saw where something heavy had walked in sand across the creek, then found a single print on his side, estimated a…
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Mar 1987
Glendale Springs, Ashe Cty, North Carolina
Ginger Goss saw all around his home and covering a mile or more, humanlike tracks 12 to 16 inches long and 5 to 6 feet apart in 21 inches of snow. Park residents and others saw them and someone from…
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1991
Stanly Cty, North Carolina
Brenda Polk was driving home at night when she saw a "thing" by the side of the road. She stopped in front of it with bright headlights on it and it looked back at her. Gorgeous silver hair, face like…
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Jan 1998
Bryson City, Swain Cty, North Carolina
Hiking on the Appalachian Trail about 4 miles north of Nantahala Outdoor Center, in a canyon with snow and ice, saw large, bare, 'human' footprint, about 13" long, in the snow patches for a mile and a half of steep…
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early 1900's
Kildeer, Dunn Cty, North Dakota
Oldtimers told Myrtle Paschen that shortly after the turn of the century a sleigh full of people were close to the Kildeer Mountains (not on map) when a large gorilla-type thing ran towards them, made a noise, turned and left.…
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Sep 1977
Cannon Ball, Sioux Cty, North Dakota
Paul Monzelowski and son tending farm on north side of Cannonball River, saw big, black animal on south side of river that ran faster than a man could run, on its hind legs, going downstream (east) then crossing to the…
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1970's
North Dakota
Ron Brienzo thinks he saw a sasquatch in North Dakota along the Canadian border after he followed 21-inch footprints sunk more than an inch into frozen ground. He wrecked a snowmobile trying to catch up to the dark, shaggy, upright…
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Oct 1979
Werner, Dunn Cty, North Dakota
Dunn County men said that as they rounded a curve a mile south of Werner at 7 p.m., headlights shone on dark animal standing at the road edge. Driver had to swerve to miss it. They did not see where…
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Sep 1977
Solen, Sioux Cty, North Dakota
Information scattered in several stories. Chris Hiatow and his brother Mike were checking cattle in their pasture, which has a lot of draws filled with brush. They saw what looked like a big ape sitting on the side of hill…
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Apr 1962
Minot, Ward Cty, North Dakota
Dave Runkle and a friend, evidently young, returning from hunting rabbits on prairie, felt were being followed, looked back and saw "great ape" which then rose on hind legs and approached. They ran to the Minuteman Trailer Park, where they…
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Sep 1990
Port Hawkesbury, Richmond Cty, Nova Scotia
Johanna Vanderkley and her husband, on the way from Cape Breton Island to Halifax, were on a coastal road when they saw a sasquatch as they rounded a corner and started up a hill. It was crossing the road near…
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Jun 1869
Gallipolis, Gallia Cty, Ohio
Wild man, naked, hair-covered, gigantic in height, "eyes start from their sockets" reported to haunt woods near Gallipolis. One story, he attacked a man riding in a carriage, hurling him to the earth, where they struggled until the man's daughter…
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May 1897
Rome, Adams Cty, Ohio
Wild man reported for weeks around Rome. Two men cutting timber a few miles from Rome able to chase it "into his supposed retreat among the cliffs." No indication whether it attacked or threatened them first. One man named Charles,…
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early 1930's
Portsmouth, Scioto Cty, Ohio
Goerge Johnson, 10, looking out bedroom window at dusk, saw "overgrown gorilla' walking towards and into the woods. House was in Eastside Portsmouth, area called Sciotoville.