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Historical account near Rutherford, Pennsylvania (1888)
A two-year-old playing with two other children disappeared when the companions briefly went to seek flowers and returned to find her gone. Over a hundred searchers and later torch parties scoured woods and fields without finding a trace. Newspaper follow-ups suggested she may have been carried away by a wild being recently seen in the locality.
Animal behaviour near Armstrong County (1881)
A gorilla-like monster was reported visiting a house and carrying a dog away into the woods. It later allegedly attacked and badly wounded a large hound. A party was organizing to capture it.
Vocalization near Morgantown, Pennsylvania (1881)
A party out driving with horses through a hill pass had a lead horse become unmanageable and show terror as a wild cry came from the thicket, refusing to pass. Local farmers also reported livestock depredations and peculiar footprints in snow that searchers could not resolve. The newspaper presented the story without conclusion.
Sasquatch sighting near Paraclifton, Arkansas (1856)
A newspaper correspondent described a party tracking a famous wild man to a frozen lake where dogs lost the trail. A rider watched the figure break ice with its arms, come ashore and shake itself. When headed off, it dragged the hunter down, gouged his eyes and bit him, destroyed the saddle and bridle, then rode the horse toward the mountains using a sapling as a club.
Sasquatch sighting in Alaska (1850)
A San Francisco newspaper article from the 1850s reportedly described giant creatures coming out of the hills on the Kenai Peninsula. The creatures were said to capture humans and eat them.
Scream
The family reports being frightened three times since September with nighttime screams, torn fences, dumped feed containers, ripped doors and spooked animals.
Sasquatch sighting
A security guard at a nursery reported being attacked by a tall hairy animal that ripped his shirt, after which he fired gunshots in vain.
Sasquatch sighting near Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania
A teenage boy working in backwoods heard what he thought was his younger brother whistling and approaching. He saw a small human-like being covered with black hair, tried to shoot it but trembled, and the being stepped behind a tree then ran off whistling. The boy returned home frightened and upset when recalling it.
Sasquatch sighting near Bridgewater, Pennsylvania
A berry picker encountered a small child-sized hair-covered being walking upright toward them while whistling like a person. After initial fright the witness pursued it, but it ran away very fast continuing to whistle. The teller notes locals afterward called it a name associated with its speed.
Tracks
A hunter found 10-inch tracks near four partially eaten turkey carcasses, which some thought could be from a bear.
Sasquatch sighting
A lumber company agent and a party including local Indians pursued a large erect creature reported in the upper Mississippi region. They shot it in the leg, captured it, and the next morning captured two small young that came into camp. The adult was measured at over eight feet tall and described as powerful and ape-like, intended for exhibition.
Sasquatch sighting near Gabriola Island, British Columbia
Two hunters heard mumbling and found a giant hairy figure rocking in a cave with folded arms. The figure appeared to utter broken phrases and wore leaves around its midsection. When one hunter moved his gun, the figure shrieked, leaped into the water and swam and paddled away, then vanished into brush.
Sasquatch sighting near Mount Sterling, Illinois
A press account told of a wild man living in a cave or deserted mine who raided farms for calves and sheep despite a cash reward. A hunter entered the cave alone with a knife and fought hand-to-hand for an hour, reporting a towering, long-haired, savage-faced creature with thin bony hands. The hunter escaped crawled out at midnight exhausted after being knocked unconscious.
Paranormal encounter
Two companions traveling with money stopped for the night at a roadside tavern and shared a locked upper room. During the night one was seized around the throat by a heavy, hairy, naked figure that he wrestled off, but a light showed no intruder and no way in or out. Weeks later they heard another traveler had been found dead in the same room with marks on the throat.