- Aug 1973 Paradise, Butte Cty, California
- 1973 Bonner, Missoula Cty, Montana
- 1973 Darby, Ravalli Cty, Montana
- 1973 Santa Fe, San Miguel Cty, New Mexico
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May 1973
Enfield, White Cty, Illinois
Rick Rainbow said he and three others saw a 5 to 5.5 foot, grey-black creature standing in the open end of an abandoned barn half a mile north of Enfield. It let out a shriek and fled.
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Apr 1973
Enfield, White Cty, Illinois
Henry McDaniel, a disabled war veteran, reported that a hairy creature scratched on his door. Newspaper calls this the first report of the "Enfield monster." McDaniel also claimed to have seen it on a railroad track near his home on…
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Jun 1973
Murphysboro, Jackson Cty, Illinois
Randy Needham and Judy Johnson (someone else's wife) parked just before midnight at Murphysboro boat ramp on Big Muddy River. They heard a loud cry from the woods next to the car, like an amplified eagle shriek. Needham then saw…
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Jun 1973
Murphysboro, Jackson Cty, Illinois
Randy Creath and Cheryl Ray were sitting on her porch about 10 p.m. when something moved in the brush nearby and a 7 to 8 foot creature with light hair covered with mud, weighing 300 to 350 pounds came out…
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Jul 1973
Murphysboro, Jackson Ctg, Illinois
At 2 a.m. carnival ponies at Riverside Park acted frightened. Norris, Adkerson and Lavander walked around a truck and saw standing upright in the darkness a 300 to 400 pound hairy, light-colored creature about 8 feet tall. It was watching…
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Oct 1973
St. Joseph, Champaign Cty, Illinois
Duncan, Summers, Mowry and Flenniken were on the township road leading to Sidney, south of St. Joseph and got out of their car to investigate what they thought was a campfire near the bridge on the Salt Fork. When one…
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May 1973
Rising Sun, Dearborn Cty, Indiana
George Kaiser was walking through the farmyard to a tractor when he saw the creature standing 25 feet away. It did not notice him for a couple of minutes as he stood watching, but when he moved it leaped a…
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Oct 1973
Galveston, Cass Cty, Indiana
Jim Mays, Kokomo, was fishing at a lake called The Pits northwest of Kokomo when he felt he was being watched, turned and saw a large figure 20 feet behind him in the woods. Looked somewhat like an ape, but…
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Oct 1973
Galveston, Cass Cty, Indiana
Jim Mays and John Grey and three others returned where Mays had seen a creature two days before. They saw a sandy-colored, giant, apelike creature standing at the edge of the woods where the thing Mays saw had disappeared. Two…
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Sep 1973
Manchester, Delaware Cty, Iowa
Jerry Ewing, who then lived in Manchester, went squirrel hunting at noon, five miles North of Manchester, and saw the creature walking in a field. It went into the woods, then came out, and they looked at each other for…
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1973
Bay City, Bay Cty, Michigan
Rick Long, 15, wrote that while breaking camp one morning at Bay City, his eight-year-old brother ran up and said that while walking on an old road he saw a hair-covered monster walking up an embankment on two legs. Rick…
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1973
Comins, Oscoda Cty, Michigan
Patsy Ott, riding in family car on Delano Rd., off Hwy. M33, said she saw a creature striding along a fence line, like a man, big, dark, hairy and tall, taking large steps and swinging its arms.
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Jan 1973
Duluth, Saint Louis Cty, Minnesota
At Island Lake, north of Duluth, Bob McGregor, 11, saw white furry creature 8 1/2 feet tall walk across a yard and through an unfinished house.
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Aug 1973
Mansfield, Richland Cty, Ohio
Jerry Greene heard something coming through the woods 25 yards from his house and went out with a shotgun. At the back of the barn he saw a large figure which turned to face him, outline like a man but…
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Aug 1973
Oberlin, Lorain Cty, Ohio
The two accounts differ, but Rudy Reinhold and perhaps Jim Chandley were coon hunting with hounds. Magazine says Reinhold shone a flashlight at a noise in the hedge by a pasture, saw two glowing red eyes, heard a long scream,…
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Oct 1973
Massillon, Stark Cty, Ohio
Chief Diloreto said his department had received several reports from the Page Ave. area on the west side of the city of amonster roaming back yards, easily jumping fences and hedges. It left a strong odour of dead fish.
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Nov 1973
Rapid City, Pennington Cty, South Dakota
Barry Olsen, Carroll Stinsonand another man saw a huge creature standing near the ditch by an old forest service road. As they watched it bent over, picked up a dead deer with one arm, and crashed through underbrush into dense…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.