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6 June 1977 Buhl, St. Louis County, Minnesota Class B #1471

Family experienced season of sasquatch visits and mother viewed it eating

The witness reports that during the summer of 1977 something repeatedly came around the family home north of Dark Lake, disturbing a horse, splashing at the lake edge, and prompting nighttime pursuit with gunfire. Multiple family members, guests and neighbors reportedly heard sounds and caught glimpses over the summer, including a daylight sighting of a large reddish creature eating raspberries.

Partial sightingUnidentified soundMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
Fall 1975 Callisburg, Cooke County, Texas Class B #6235

Biology teacher's experiences around "the 1893 Bridge."

A teacher and companions are said to have encountered a tall creature on at least six occasions near an old bridge in Cooke County, Texas. The encounters occurred at night from a vehicle, with the figure seen as a tall silhouette in headlights and heard making threatening noises while moving through brush. On one occasion the creature was described as bouncing a limb, whose height was measured the next day, and daytime searches reportedly found bones in the creek. Shots were allegedly fired at the creature without apparent effect.

SilhouetteVocalizationMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
November 1974 La Fayette, Walker County, Georgia Class B #7464

Deer hunter describes possible stalking on Pigeon Mountain

While tracking a wounded buck down the mountain at dusk, the witness heard parallel movement with breaking limbs, rustling leaves, a grunt and a growl. The sounds mirrored the witness's own stops and starts and at times fell silent. The witness fled through a briar patch to a truck, heard grunting again behind, and never saw the source.

GrowlVocalizationFootstepsMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
Summer 1972 Big Bay, Marquette County, Michigan Class B #809

Family finds large footprint, and hears unusual sounds

When the witness was about seven, the family found very large footprints on a Lake Superior beach. While leaving through the woods toward the car they heard loud screeching and something large jumping nearby without being seen. They left quickly in the car, with the witness feeling the source was too big to be people.

TracksScreamMovement onlyPossible hoax
September 1971 Granite, Chaffee County, Colorado Class A #3606

Campers have daylight sighting near Leadville

The witness was camping with family and climbed a hill with cousins, rolling rocks from the top. They heard crashing in aspens across a ravine and saw a tall, long-haired figure standing on two legs about 300 feet away watching them for several minutes. After watching it rock back and forth, the group ran back down the hill. The witness maintains decades later that it was not a bear.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteMovement onlyPossible misidentification
1970–1972 Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/12/25/sc-ep393-the-christmas-show

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1970)

Three children were catching lightning bugs in a pasture at dusk while their grandfather called them from the porch. The grandfather saw an upright figure on a fence line drop to all fours and lope toward the children. He ran shouting, the children froze or fled, and the creature stopped, stood erect, then walked away into cedar trees while watching them.

Full-body sightingMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
June 1965 Cant' Remember The Towns Outside Ft. Gordon. I Know That I Was A Student A Murphy Jr. High School At The Time. This School Was Outside The Military Base., Richmond County, Georgia Class B #4236

Man recalls a possible encounter as a teen at Fort Gordon

During summer 1965 the witness was exploring woods near military housing when he found very large barefoot prints in red clay leading into the trees. While on a trail he heard heavy bipedal footsteps that appeared to follow him, stopping when he stopped and rushing toward him, causing him to flee to the housing area. He returned with a friend and both heard the same following footsteps rush toward them before fleeing, with the friend reporting an indistinct large movement in the brush.

TracksFootstepsMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
1950–1959 Bovey, Itasca County, Minnesota Class A #2677

Girl sees creature while picking blueberries. It follows when she screams and flees

A young girl picking blueberries alone near dark felt watched and saw a figure crouched in the patch that slipped into brush. Moments later she saw a very tall, hair-covered, man-like figure by a tree that ducked behind it, then followed her at a distance as she ran home screaming. Her relatives later searched the site armed and reported matted brush with a bad odor.

Full-body sightingMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
Over the course of several years, both before and after the witness' sighting Place not stated Related account #30462

Animal behaviour

Over several years before and after the sighting, unseen harassment at night and sounds of a large animal moving through brush were reported.

Animal behaviourMovement only
On the same day Place not stated Related account #31648

Movement only

A soldier on a two-mile night hike reported being followed through the forest and then watched until pickup.

Movement onlyAnimal behaviour
while stationed there in the Navy Place not stated Related account #10623

Movement only

While stationed in Washington, the witness and a companion were followed down a logging road by something large that stopped when they stopped, with a foul odor.

Movement onlyOdorAnimal behaviour
summer of 1988 Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky Related account #15767

Movement only near Bardstown, Kentucky

The witness and a companion heard something moving in cedar trees at night that appeared to follow parallel as they returned to the house.

Movement onlyAnimal behaviour
the next day Mortons Gap, Hopkins County, Kentucky Related account #1433

Sasquatch sighting near Mortons Gap, Kentucky

A relative and two companions returned to the same fishing spot the next day, felt watched, and saw a very dark form in the bottoms that ran away.

Partial sightingMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
BFRO YEAR: 1979 -'84 Wayne County, West Virginia Class A #1207

One of several sighting and vocalization reports. When witness called out " it stood up at the edge of the hill and huffed and puffed."

Five people drove to a rural spot at night to hang out. After dogs in a hollow below barked then fell suddenly silent, the group heard movement in brush and saw a tall fur-covered figure stand at the hill edge making huffing sounds. When the driver turned on the car headlights the figure covered its face and moved behind trees as the group fled in the car.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteVocalizationMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
only a year or two later Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia Related account #15475

Movement only near Morgantown, West Virginia

The witness was shadowed for about a mile by an unseen source moving through dense rhododendrons that left a visible wake in the brush and matched his stops and starts.

Movement onlyAnimal behaviour
BFRO YEAR: 2000/01 Hoxeyville, Wexford County, Michigan Class B #26196

Possible intimidation experienced by two bow hunters near Cadillac

The witness and a companion were bowhunting deer from separate ground positions near a creek and swamp. The witness heard quiet rustling behind a small hill, then a large tree shook violently and a loud roar/scream sounded. The witness fled to the truck, met waiting officers, and returned with them to retrieve the companion, who had also heard the scream and seen deer flee. The group left the woods together without explanation for the sound.

Movement onlyScreamAnimal behaviour
early in the morning Place not stated Related account #46401

Animal behaviour

A neighbor's wife reportedly saw a tree shaking early one morning on property about a mile away, with no cause found on later inspection.

Animal behaviourMovement only
from age 9 to age 17 National City, Iosco County, Michigan Related account #42418

Animal behaviour near National City, Michigan

Through years of riding in the area the witness reports recurring feelings of being followed, peripheral dark motions, and heavy human-like footsteps.

Animal behaviourFootstepsMovement only
As a kid Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois Related account #40475

Movement only near Oregon, Illinois

Throughout childhood the witness repeatedly felt watched in the woods, glimpsed fleeting movement, and saw dogs act strangely and block entry while growling.

Movement onlyAnimal behaviour
BFRO YEAR: 1975-76 North Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida Class B #24241

Family has a strange and terrifying encounter while fishing in the Everglades National Park

While night-fishing beside a canal in the Everglades with his parents as a young child, the witness heard something pacing back and forth in dense vegetation behind them. His father threw a piece of coral, shone a spotlight, and shouted, but the movement continued without any visible source or response. Frightened by the persistent, methodical pacing, the family fled in their car without breaking down their fishing rods.

FootstepsUnidentified soundMovement onlyAnimal behaviourPossible misidentification