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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
First of at least three sightings over 3-week period. Evelyn Cayton and son Howe and daughter Vicki Keck went to see what had frightened some children, and saw the creature standing on the bank of an old strip mine pit.…
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
Second of three sightings, Evelyn Cayton saw the creature sitting on its haunches at the bottom of the abandoned strip mine pit.
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
Third of at least three sightings over 3-week period. Evelyn Cayton, Vicki Keck, Becky Manley, Linda Jones and Scott Patterson went to investigate noises from a partially-demolished chicken coop near the house. Two pairs of eyes reflected from flashlights, then…
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Aug 1978
Minerva, Stark Cty, Ohio
John and Jerry Nutter went to wooded area near where the Cayton family had seen a sasquatch earlier in August and as they approached the abandoned strip mine they heard something moving parallel to them in the dense brush, then…
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Dec 1978
Gibsonville, Hocking Cty, Ohio
Dennis Zunk said his friend was sitting under a tree in a pine thicket when a big creature walked through. He thought it was a man in a fur coat until it reached up and ripped a limb of the…
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Jan 1978
Harrah, Oklahoma Cty, Oklahoma
Edwin Howard and family were picking up pecans along the North Canadian River, when he saw a very big, dark coloured man standing by two trees. After a short time the "man" walked away. Later Howard decided that it could…
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Feb 1978
Harrah, Lincoln Cty, Oklahoma
Farmer was working inside metalbarn with doors closed when he heard something, then saw the top of the doors pulled out from the building and a creature looking down at him from above them. The doors are 8 feet high.…
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Jun 1978
Wright City, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma
Jonas McCutcheon reported to have made casts of 17-inch prints, apparently in an area called Boklaws along the Little River near Yashau Creek and Mountain Fork River, an area of swamplands and dense undergrowth.
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Mar 1978
East Brewton, Escambia Cty, Alabama
Mary Gibson heard something screaming and called her brother, Luke McDaniel, who came over and heard it to. They called police and Doug McCurdy attended. Johnny Gibson, 19, also turned up. All heard screams and then saw something move into…
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Mar 1978
Flomaton, Escambia Cty, Alabama
Man reported to have seen a typical sasquatch standing in the Conecuh River picking something out of the water, according to Jerry Owens.
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Jul 1978
Springville, Blount Cty, Alabama
Tim Church writes of third hand report that two deputies saw an apelike creature run off into the woods during a night patrol.
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Aug 1978
Athens, Limestone Cty, Alabama
David Copley, Ronnie Loanie and Stanley Estep were at a campfire fishing for catfish. David drove to get firewood nearby, heard strange growl, turned lights toward creek and saw large pink glowing eyes, then creature approached, 8 or 9 feet…
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Aug 1978
Lavaca, Sebastian Cty, Arkansas
Brief report from Lavaca that there are rumors of a BHM (big hairy monster) that appears near a local lovers' lane and beats on the hoods of automobiles. Tracks indicate 6 toes.
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Feb 1978
Leachville, Mississippi Cty, Arkansas
Larry Fullerton quoted that shortly after dusk on route 77 out of Leachville, a well-proportioned 8-foot creature covered with 6-inch hair ran in front of his truck for half a mile, on its hind legs, slowing or speeding as the…
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Mar 1978
Appleton, Pope Cty, Arkansas
Joe Cook and another man found giant tracks in the first week of March, along a dirt road crossing a mountain between Appleton and Center Ridge. Cook made some poor casts. At one point the maker "stepped flat footed over…
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Mar 1978
Center Ridge, Conway Cty, Arkansas
Weldon Flowers and Rick Paladino found tracks along Hwy 124, near Center Ridge telephone exchange. They were later studied by Coach Jim Reynolds, Nemo Vista High School, Superintendent T.O. Adams and students, and Bob Harrison. Harrison then found some more…
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Jun 1978
Crossett, Ashley Cty, Arkansas
Mike Lofton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Lofton, was feeding his puppy, alone at their trailer home, when the dog whined. He looked up and saw a huge hair-covered creature with arms extended overhead and, he said, three long,…
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Aug 1978
Benton, Saline Cty, Arkansas
Mrs. Mildred Wilton called Benton police after hearing something rattling a chain link fence in her back yard. She looked out and saw what looked like a gorilla a foot taller than the 4-foot fence. Police found a large footprint…
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1978
Oneco, Manatee Cty, Florida
Footprint found in a patch of mud in the otherwise grassy back yard of the trailer home of Robert and Carolyn Coffey.
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Jan 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
A number of Venice residents reported a pair of skunk apes, evidently of different sexes, frolicking just outside the city limits, according to Mike Corradino.
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1978
Winterhaven, Polk Cty, Florida
Unnamed man likving in a large trailer park just west of Winterhaven looked out kitchen window about 8 p.m. and saw 8-foot sasquatch looking in. Next morning large sasquatch tracks all around garbage can.
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May 1978
Jay, Santa Rosa Ctky, Florida
Five truckloads of men reportedly fled after seeing a 6.5 to 8-foot creature on a pipeline from Flomaton to Jay.
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Mar 1978
Century, Escambia Cty, Florida
Man saw a very huge hairy manlike creature on the Canoe River standing picking something out of the water.
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Feb 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Owner found barn door knocked down, and inside rabbits removed from their hutches, heads bitten off, drained of blood. Nearby were 18-inch footprints resembling naked human prints except for size. Presume Corradino report.
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Jan about 1978
Venice, Sarasota Cty, Florida
Mike Corradino, newspaperman and founder of Florida Monkey Sanctuary, tells of construction crews clearing a site in scrubby pinelands awakening a sasquatch with their heavy equipment early in the morning. It ran away, growling loudly at first, then shrieking as…