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103 encounters
1973–1975 Cotton, Cooper County, Missouri Class A #44283

Family members describe screaming and house smacking near Prairie Home

Five women staying overnight at a rural farmhouse heard loud piercing screams approaching from up a hill toward the house. A backlit tall, large-framed figure walking hunched over passed in front of the front picture windows and beat on the house, and a very hairy leg was seen when the front door was opened. The figure then went around the corner of the house and disappeared, leaving a burning skunk-like smell. Two men who had been away returned later and searched the large farm into the early morning without finding anything.

ScreamSilhouettePartial sightingDoor or window contactOdor
10 October 1972 Verona Beach, Oneida County, New York Class B #27035

Man recounts childhood incident at his home on Oneida Lake

The witness, age 11 at the time, was in bed when a large shadow was cast on the bedroom wall from outside the window for about 20 to 30 seconds. A few minutes later the witness heard the back storage room door being ripped off and sounds of ransacking, including the freezer being opened and heavy objects moved. The next morning the storage room was found in disarray with the door off, faint scratches without tool marks, and frozen foods missing.

SilhouetteUnidentified soundDoor or window contactProperty disturbance
Summer 1972 Diamond, Mahoning County, Ohio Class A #4959

Nightime sighting at a Lake Milton marina

A teenager and an older neighbor spent the night on a boat at a marina to catch suspected vandals. During the night the teenager saw a huge hair-covered figure crouched at an overturned trashcan scooping garbage, then stand upright and stare briefly. The figure stepped over the trashcan, sprang up an embankment, and disappeared into brush, leaving disturbed dew, strewn garbage, and broken brush.

SilhouetteFull-body sightingProperty disturbanceUnidentified sound
1972 Arkansas #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/06/02/sc-ep33-frightening-dogman-encounter

Dogman sighting in Arkansas (1972)

In 1972 the witness camped with family in a van at a newly opened park at Beaver Lake in the Arkansas Ozarks. Late at night after a loud bang on the van and seeing a shadow, nearby campers fled, then the group watched a tall hairy biped with a dog-like snout descend a rocky ridge, heard a loud growl, and were pelted with gravel before fleeing the park before dawn.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteHowlGrowlFootsteps +2
Fall 1968 Wheeler, Weber County, Utah Class A #2347

Witness observes a pair of glowing red eyes looking in the window.

In the fall of 1968, the witness was home late at night watching television while a small child slept in another room. After getting up, the witness saw glowing red eyes and a dark outlined shape in the window behind the chair. The witness waited, then called law enforcement to report a prowler and while waiting heard windows and the back door rattle softly. Deputies arrived much later and remarked the figure must have been fairly tall, and no tracks were found the next day because of leaves.

Partial sightingSilhouetteEyeshineDoor or window contact
15 August 1967 River Grove, Cook County, Illinois Class A #46494

Memory told of a daytime sighting in Schiller Woods

The witness was resting by the Des Plaines River during a bicycle ride when a hair-covered creature was seen across the river splashing in the water. After the witness coughed, the creature threw large rocks toward the witness, then crossed the river silently and confronted the witness at close range. The witness fled along a trail while hearing a loud howl and screaming and seeing additional shadowy figures across the river.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteRock throwingHowlScream
August 1966 Penticton, British Columbia Class B #10572

Possible approach to a camp outside Penticton

The mother, sleeping with family in a tent trailer at a campground, was awake during the night while something was outside. In the morning the family found a cooler that had been tucked under the trailer dragged out, crushed, with food missing. The mother said she had seen its shadow on the tent wall and insisted it was neither a bear nor a man, remaining upset for most of the day.

SilhouetteProperty disturbance
1965 Creek County, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/16/sc-ep80-southern-sasquatch-encounters

Sasquatch sighting near Creek County (1965)

The guest and several boys camped in a thicket below their house and hung food in a bag to keep animals away. At night the dogs panicked and fled, a foul smell arrived, and the group saw a large man-like shape standing in brush about 20 feet away by campfire light. They fled to the house, and the next day found the hung food bag torn from its rope and gone.

SilhouetteOdorProperty disturbance
1 August 1959 Graf, Dubuque County, Iowa Class B #36817

Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque

In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingSilhouetteFootstepsScream +2
BFRO YEAR: 1985-86 Williamstown, Oswego County, New York Class B #3614

Large figure prowls around cabin outside Williamstown

Two friends were staying overnight in a cabin by a creek when late at night someone tried the locked door and did not answer. A tall shape then appeared at the side window, and they remained huddled inside without sleep until morning. Next morning they found barefoot-like prints with a wide stride going up a steep embankment near the creek.

Partial sightingSilhouetteDoor or window contactTracks
BFRO YEAR: 1989,1993 Essex County, New York Class A #1522

Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.

ScreamOdorFootstepsSilhouetteProperty disturbance +1
February 1st at approximately 6:45PM Place not stated Related account #78276

Sasquatch sighting

Same witness on a Feb. 1 raccoon hunt heard splashing sounds, saw a black silhouette across the creek, and later had a small stone thrown near his feet at a hatchery entrance.

SilhouetteUnidentified soundRock throwing
BFRO YEAR: 1970-71 Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Class B #1163

Annapolis resident sees 9-10ft shadowy figure in driveway at 1:30am

The witness's brother spent the night alone in a camper parked in the driveway. Around 1:30 a.m. he watched a shadow move across the curtained window and translucent roof, apparently cast by a neighbor's porch light, as something slowly circled the camper while lightly tapping its sides. The next morning the family found fingerprint smudges, a large handprint, and large toeprints in spilled sand.

SilhouetteVehicle contactHandprintTracks
one night Summerville, Charleston County, South Carolina Related account #13673

Sasquatch sighting near Summerville, South Carolina

The witness and a companion camped in a mobile home on the back of the property and saw the shadow of something walking around the trailer, hitting it and trying to get in until daylight.

SilhouetteDoor or window contact
Date unknown Missouri #e4e9138f-646f-4b8f-b6d8-4756bfdb5c66

Sasquatch sighting in Missouri

The investigator retells a hunter's report of a night when he, his uncle and son had hung deer and gut piles near camp. They saw silhouettes circling, heard banging on the camper, stick slapping and rock throwing as the visitors tried to get the meat. The men shouted from inside where their guns were stored until the visitors left.

SilhouetteRock throwingDoor or window contact
Date unknown Place not stated #e4e9138f-646f-4b8f-b6d8-4756bfdb5c66

Sasquatch sighting

The investigator retells a witness family's years-long experience at a house provided with work, where parents and many children repeatedly saw large humanoid silhouettes watching from the woods. The children reported a big ape-like figure, nightly house banging occurred after a TV was moved, and chickens, toys, tools and water-system doors were disturbed. The family eventually left after several years.

SilhouetteDoor or window contactProperty disturbance
in the middle of winter one year Washington #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/15/sc-ep50-bigfoot-encounter-stories-wrap-up

Silhouette in Washington

After his grandfather died, the witness was home alone hearing tapping on the roof and seeing a large shadow cross a window for about a week in winter. His cousin reported bad dreams about a sick old Sasquatch. He left smoked fish on the smokehouse and three nights later it was gone, after which the disturbances stopped.

SilhouetteDoor or window contactUnidentified sound
June 12th West Virginia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/12/25/sc-ep393-the-christmas-show

Sasquatch sighting in West Virginia

Late at night the witness heard activity outside, put out a recorder, and heard rocks clacked together and an extremely loud branch break up the hill. He also saw a large upright human-shaped silhouette move quickly and silently between trees about 50 yards away. He concluded a second individual made the uphill sounds while the seen one moved downhill.

SilhouetteRock throwingTree breakMovement only
just last Wednesday New Mexico #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/03/14/sc-ep200-the-200th-show-part-two

Sasquatch sighting in New Mexico

A young couple reported that late at night something dark blocked their bright porch light while looking in the front window and then manipulated the front doorknob. The young woman fled to tell her partner, who lit and threw a firecracker outside. The visitors said they heard the intruder run away.

Partial sightingSilhouetteDoor or window contactFootsteps
one night Montana #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/04/29/sc-ep29-savage-bigfoot-attack

Silhouette in Montana

The guest relays that his uncle's parents were watching TV one night when something stepping into the sliding doorway blacked out outside light. Yard objects that a normal person could not lift had been moved around.

SilhouetteProperty disturbance