Sasquatch sighting near Dayton, Tennessee (1960)
Account
The guest recounts family activity from the 1960s at a rural hillside property reached by a dark tree-covered road. Family members were repeatedly followed by something that moved with them and shook the door after they barricaded it, and later saw glowing eyes looking through a window. Hogs went missing until a stakeout saw a gorilla-like figure carry one away, and a rider's horse once jumped over a sleeping hairy figure in a field.
What was reported
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Sightings
Interaction
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Build src
- gorilla-like
- Face src
- monkeyish appearance with wide nose like an old man
- Eyes src
- glowing red eyes
- Gait src
- loped
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
1960–1969
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
night
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| Place |
Dayton, Tennessee
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| Map point |
35.4954, -85.0087 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Dayton city (GEOID 4719700), matched from nearest town 'Dayton'
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| Account type |
Second-hand
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
coming home at night and tending farm and livestock
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| Witness's word for it |
big foot
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| Creature |
Sasquatch / Bigfoot
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Source timeline
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Bigfoot Society EP 243 Podcast Interview
The report refers to
- “newspaper reports of a wild man around there”Not in the Anomadex yet