Sasquatch sighting near Camden, Arkansas (1975)
Account
The witness was spending the weekend at a friend's family farm when the grandmother screamed that she saw the creature again looking in the kitchen window. The witness and the friend's father and brothers armed themselves and went into the moonlit pasture, where a tall hairy biped jumped a five-foot fence, landed nearby, then ran across the pasture and crashed through a cattle gate. The next morning they found large footprints, broken fencing and gate, a pulled corner post, bent metal, plus hair and blood on wire.
What was reported
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Sightings
Sounds
Physical traces
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Described appearance
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- Height src
- eight foot tall, maybe nine foot
- Build src
- muscular, powerful, probably six maybe seven hundred pounds
- Hair colour src
- dark
- Hair length src
- long stringy
- Face src
- man's profile, huge man's face, rough skin, hair around face but not on face
- Eyes src
- big red glowing eyes
- Arms src
- long arms down almost to knees
- Hands src
- big hands, long fingers
- Feet src
- about seventeen inches eighteen inches long footprints
- Gait src
- ran across pasture straight like a man, swinging arms, never on all fours
- Posture src
- stood straight up on two legs
- Other features src
- not a bear, no bear smell, man's profile
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
June 1975
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
night, about 9:30, very bright moonlight
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| Place |
Camden, Arkansas
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| Map point |
33.5677, -92.8491 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Camden city (GEOID 0510720), matched from nearest town 'Camden'
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
spending the weekend at a friend's family farm, watching TV after dinner
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| Witness's word for it |
this thing
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| Creature |
Sasquatch / Bigfoot
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Evidence & investigation
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Measurements: about seventeen inches eighteen inches long
Measurements: twenty five foot
Source timeline
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Bigfoot Society EP 531 Podcast Interview