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Aug 1978
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Larry Nelson after seeing an 8 to 10-foot creature prowling around the woodline for the second evening in a row, called his brother who came with a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle. About 9.30 p.m. they spotted the creature in a…
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Aug 1978
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
This entry represents two early evening sighting by Larry Nelson, the second one the same day his brother shot at the creature, plus the finding of tracks, not stated whether before or after the sightings. It was the tracks that…
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before 1978
Yelvington, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Joe Ford had a second hand report of a teenage boy walking home after running out of gas, hearing footsteps behind him, then a creature grabbed at him. When he yelled both took off. There was no moon, so he…
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1978
artford, Ohio Cty, Kentucky
Joe Ford talked to a man who said that when he was walking in the woods something very hairy and very large reached out and grabbed his arm. He broke free and fled without looking back.
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Aug 1978
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Joe Ford says friends of Larry Nelson cornered the creature in mid August beside a pond in a field behind the house and one of them shot it with a pistol from 10 feet away. It fled into the woods,…
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before 1978
Mansfield, De Soto Cty, Louisiana
J. Frank McAneny talked to Shreveport deer hunter who said a creature bellowed in answer to a railroad whistle, ran up the steep railroad embankment, crossed the tracks and disappeared in the swamp below. He and a friend described it…
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before 1978
Mansfield, De Soto Cty, Louisiana
J. Frank McAneny talked to Shreveport oilfield worker who said he saw a black, hairy creature standing in the brush watching him as he did maintenance work. He got a rifle but decided not to shoot, as it was on…
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Jun 1978
Krotz Springs, St. Landry Cty, Louisiana
Leonce Boudreaux said he and his wife returned by car at 2.30 a.m. to their mobile home in a campground that he managed, and heard noises behind the trailer. He went to investigate and saw the same 7 to 8-foot…
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Jan 1978
Riceville, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Little Rhonda Duval found tracks when she went to fish in a pond behind her home just north of Bayou Queue De Tortue. Her father Nolan Duval and George Kutch investigated and Duval followed the tracks three quarters of a…
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Jan 1978
Crowley, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Martin Francis said he was walking by a stream near his house about 10 a.m. when he saw something like "a big ape" bent over by a stream eating minnows. He threw rocks at it and it hopped away downstream…
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Sep 1978
Covington, St. Tammany Cty, Louisiana
Security guard T. Jenkins reported seeing a sasquatch at two or three o'clock in the morning in the woods behind Highland Park Hospital outside Covington.
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Nov 1978
Krotz Springs, Landry Cty, Louisiana
Jack Potter told the sheriff that when he and a girl friend were driving home on a deserted road near a stream they heard some loud growling and were confronted by a huge creature covered with reddish hair running very…
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Nov 1978
Krotz Springs, Landry Cty, Louisiana
Unnamed youth counsellor from Alabama said he saw an 8 ft. hairy biped about 11.30 p.m. It disappeared in woods.
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Jan 1978
Winnabow, Brunswick Cty, North Carolina
Hunters found tracks in a timbered area. Not clear whether Charlie Taylor or Carter Rabon or someone else found them first.
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1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Taylor Falls, hunting deer in the South Mountains saw a black, hairy creature about 6.5 feet tall, run out of tree coveer across a field. This would be the first of the "Knobby" series of sightings, but it is not…
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1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Minnie Cook heard her dog barking fiercely, went to the front of her house and saw the creature standing at the edge of the woods. It stood looking at her and her dog for about 10 minutes. No size is…
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1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Woodcutter making a delivery of cordwood saw what he thought was a bear in a field, backed up for a better view and watched about 5 minutes until it disappeared in thick undergrowth. Description mentions only colour, the magazine having…
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1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Mrs. Clayton Candler was driving home about dusk when she stopped to look at what she thought was a cow beside the road and it got up on its hind legs and walked over to the car--while she fumbled with…
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Dec 1978
Casar, Cleveland Cty, North Carolina
Sammy Price and wife Kay, just before Christmas, began hearing unearthly screams from the nearby woods. One night he saw something 6 or 7 feet high, estimated 250 to 300 pounds, apparently black all over, but could not see it…
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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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1978
Marshall, Harrison Cty, Texas
Two residents of the Sand Hill area (not on map) have reported sightings to Harrison County authorities of a white creature that stands up like a human. One man said it seemed to be sitting, on top of a hill,…
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Jun 1978
Vidor, Orange Cty, Texas
Bobby Bussinger and wife Beckie, in house on North Tram Road, had something howling and yelping at night and clawing at window screens. Bobby went out with a shotgun and approached the creature at the back of his cleared lot.…
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Jul 1978
Rogers, Milam Cty, Texas
Near Ad Hall (not on map) Jeffrey Gelner was waiting for his grandfather, John J. Gelner who was combining in a maise field when he heard a growl behind him. He ran but looked back, saw a big brown hairy…
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Aug 1978
Georgetown, Travis Cty, Texas
Brief account says 8-foot hairy creature resembling a human was tracked into a slough near the Little River. There was an odour of dead flesh, 24-inch footprints and claw marks on trees.
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Aug 1978
Neylandville, Hunt Cty, Texas
Harvey Garrison, Wolfe City High School senior, visiting friend in South Sulphur, saw brown, 7 to 8-foot creature beside a country road and nearly hit it. It went over the road in one step, into the ditch with the next,…