Press report
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Sasquatch sighting near Portlock, Alaska (1940)
1940–1949
Portlock, Alaska
1 witness
Account
In the 1940s near a cannery town, a hunter preparing to enter the mountains was attacked by a very tall hairy creature. His dogs drove the creature off and others found him alive. He lived long enough to describe the attacker as a giant hairy being before dying.
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- Height src
- more than 10 feet high
- Other features src
- hairy
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