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1 January 2013 15 Miles East Of Glenwood Springs, Eagle County, Colorado Class A #39520

Motorists see tall, hairy human-like figure wading across the Colorado River east of Glenwood Springs

Four people driving west on the interstate in daylight noticed a tall, thin, dark hair-covered biped in the Colorado River. The figure leaned slightly forward and swung long arms as it walked across the shallow water toward the highway. They lost sight after only a few seconds at highway speed with no place to stop.

Full-body sightingPossible misidentification
10 June 2006 We Were In The Middle Between Lake City And Creede, Hinsdale County, Colorado Class B #14997

Possible approach to campers near Spring Creek Pass in the San Juan Mountains

A couple stopped at sunset in a pullout beside a stream to eat and fish for the night. The witness heard loud crashing in brush near the truck, faint low growls from across the road, and later loud splashing from a drainage, while the companion reported finding very large, deep footprints in mud by the stream. Neither saw the source of the sounds or tracks, and they left the area feeling something large had stayed hidden nearby.

FootstepsGrowlTracksAnimal behaviour
19 April 2000 Chama, Conejos County, Colorado Class B #407

Possible vocalizations heard while motorists were taking a break at turnout near La Manga Pass

Four people stopped at a turnout on Highway 17 ascending toward La Manga Pass in the morning. After one person in the party gave a whoop, they heard three loud roar-like vocalizations with pauses between them. They saw no source and left quickly, later noting the sounds resembled an Ohio howl recording and acknowledging a human trick was possible.

VocalizationPossible hoax
8 August 1996 Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado Class B #140

Characteristic vocalization heard by hunter on Hayden Mountain

The witness and a companion were archery hunting in high-elevation basins in western Colorado when they heard a single, extremely loud scream lasting several seconds from the direction of their camp. They initially attributed the sound to a mountain lion, but acquaintances who hunt mountain lions did not recognize the described sound. Years later, after hearing a purported Bigfoot vocalization on television, the witness reconsidered the 1996 incident as possibly Bigfoot-related.

ScreamPossible misidentification
November 1990 Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado Class A #6782

Hunters observe dark creature pounding rocks together

The witness and a relative were hunting elk when they followed a strong smell and clashing rock sounds to a ridge. They observed a large hair-covered animal squatting in a dry creek bed striking two rocks together while vocalizing, which then stood, leapt the creek, and ran upslope out of sight. They later collected two chipped rocks from the spot but found no tracks or hair.

Full-body sightingGrowlOdorAnimal behaviour
1984 Conejos County, Colorado #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/01/22/sc-ep292-swaying-from-side-to-side-watching-me

Sasquatch sighting near Conejos County (1984)

The witness was scouting high-elevation timber for a later elk hunt when he noticed tree breaks, pushovers and tracks. From boulders he glassed about eight hairy bipeds with young, watching them for about half an hour as some appeared to hide at a choke point while others circled. He concluded they were hunting deer and left with his companion before dark.

Full-body sightingTracksTree breakStructure or nestWhoop +2
September 1978 Between Buffalo Creek And Bailey, Jefferson County, Colorado Class A #7225

Picnicker has daytime sighting outside Buffalo Creek

In 1978 the witness was picnicking with family near Wellington Lake in the afternoon when she saw a white-furred bipedal creature about 60 feet away. The creature repeatedly stepped out from behind a boulder and ducked back as a companion turned to look, repeating this four to five times before disappearing. The companion never saw it. The creature alternated between bipedal and stooped postures and moved swiftly and silently, striking the witness as playful rather than frightening.

Partial sightingAnimal behaviour
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
1940 Monument Lake, Costilla County, Colorado Class B #1353

Father relates Native accounts from the Sangre de Cristo mountains to teenage son.

The writer relays a story from a relative who as a teenager worked as a fishing guide and spent spare time hiking with an older companion. When the relative suggested hiking into a new area near Blanca Peak, the companion refused, saying that was where the Sasquatch lives and describing it as an animal that walks like a man. The relative dismissed it at the time but recalled it with surprise after publicity of the Patterson film.

Folklore
1926 Walden, Jackson County, Colorado Class B #5641

Daylight sighting by woodsman of two bipeds stalking an elk

The witness was positioned on one mountainside watching across a valley toward an opposite slope where an elk was being stalked by two large brown animals first taken for bears. Viewed through binoculars, the two stood upright and walked on two legs, keeping the elk between them and at times hiding behind trees before entering heavy timber after about five minutes. The outcome for the elk was not seen, but the witness thought the pair probably killed it.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour
in the winter Colorado #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/01/sc-ep47-screaming-sasquatch-i-was-run-out-of-camp

Sasquatch sighting in Colorado

Years later a friend told the guest that he and his father were snowmobiling in the same area when one machine got stuck. A Sasquatch reportedly charged from the tree line toward the father, who fled to the friend and both left on one machine. They later returned with relatives and firearms to retrieve the abandoned snowmobile.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour
around the first of May or so Durango, Colorado #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/08/02/sc-ep132-a-gold-miners-encounter

Sasquatch sighting near Durango, Colorado

The witness lived for two to three months in a rock overhang above a canyon stream, fishing with traps and hunting small game. A large hairy creature repeatedly raided his fish traps, exchanged rock throws, accepted camp bread, used a larger trap left for it and took deer remains. After an ice storm the witness developed severe pneumonia with high fever and could not tend his fire. He reported the creature looking in on him, leaving meat, a headless rabbit and herbs he boiled, then carrying him down the canyon over hours or days until a couple in a converted school bus found him and got him to a hospital.

Full-body sightingRock throwingFootstepsScreamProperty disturbance +1
Date unknown Colorado #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/08/02/sc-ep132-a-gold-miners-encounter

Sasquatch sighting in Colorado

The witness spent a few days watching from a hill while the wind kept his scent away. He watched adult females keep young in trees, lay with babies, coo, pet them and release a sweet spiced-honey-like scent. When a distant holler sounded the group got up and moved away.

Full-body sightingVocalizationOdorAnimal behaviour
That night Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado Related account #24696

Animal behaviour near Aspen, Colorado

At night something spooked a mule so badly it tried to break loose, but nothing was seen.

Animal behaviour
about 10 minutes later Lake George, Park County, Colorado Related account #2493

Animal behaviour near Lake George, Colorado

About ten minutes after being brought inside, one dog stared toward the door, tilting its head and growling.

Animal behaviour
Date unknown Lake George, Park County, Colorado Related account #2493

Animal behaviour near Lake George, Colorado

At the time of the cry the witness peeked out and saw both dogs huddled together by the door instead of running into the woods.

Animal behaviour
two days Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colorado Related account #2110

Animal behaviour near Lake City, Colorado

For two days before the sighting the witness's goats and dogs were periodically nervous and pointed toward the woods while the witness felt watched.

Animal behaviour