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Motorist confronted by hairy, man-like creature on roadside
The witness stopped a car by a wooded road to urinate. A hairy man-like creature approached to within three feet while snorting and grunting and holding a small limb-like object, then walked away. The witness fled in the car and saw the creature standing at the road edge in the rear-view mirror.
Three boys playing games witness a huge creature walking through their front yard
Four children playing a hiding game around a house heard something large running in a nearby thicket. Shortly after, three of them watched a thick, dark, hairy biped stride across the road and down a bank into a cornfield. They ran inside to tell a relative, who laughed. The witness recalled the image vividly years later.
Recollection of a possible nighttime encounter on a four-wheeler near Sullivan
The witness and two companions snuck out on a 4-wheeler into woods behind a house on a snowy night. They noticed a dead-like odor and heard monkey-like chattering, then saw a tall hair-covered biped walk toward them while growling. The group fled on the vehicle and on foot as the animal followed to within arm's reach without touching them, apparently driving them from the area.
Hikers find footprints and see 10 foot tall creature outside home
The witness and a companion found very large footprints and broken branches while hiking and felt watched and followed back to the companion's house. The next morning the witness, sleeping on a couch by large front windows, saw a very tall brown human-like hairy creature in the clearing outside. After watching for several minutes, the creature approached, climbed a bank, and struck the house wall hard enough to wake the companion.
White hair covered creature seen at the edge of a cornfield
On the night of July 4, 1984 the witness was slowly driving a companion home on a rural road lined with fences and cornfields. He saw a large hair-covered light-colored figure standing behind a fence watching him as he drove past. He kept driving without speaking and then saw in the rear-view mirror that it turned and went back into the cornfield. The companion was asleep and did not see it.
Man has clear sighting of a bipedal primate on clear winter night
Late at night two people parked near a bridge watched a tall figure cross a marsh, step over a fence without stopping, then turn and run toward them at high speed. They drove away over the bridge while the figure pursued briefly before breaking off at the hardtop road and returning to the forest. The writer states the figure matched no known animal or human they had encountered.
Mother and son see sasquatch closeup from road
The witness, then a child, was riding at night in the rain with his mother looking for deer when a fallen tree blocked the narrow road. When the headlights swung toward the stump, they saw a tall pale ape-like figure standing beside it staring at them for several seconds. The mother reversed the car and drove away quickly.
Early evening sighting by two children, near Layman
As children playing in the yard near dusk, the witness and a relative noticed a figure moving along the woodline across the road. The figure was described as walking stooped over and pushing vegetation aside with its hands, then stopping to look at them after being shouted at. Both children fled indoors frightened and told a parent, who did not see anything.
Bicycling student has night encounter
Late at night the witness stopped under a streetlight while biking back to school to fix a brake. He heard loud bipedal footsteps approaching, then saw a white-haired gorilla-like creature about 20-25 feet away. The creature chased him briefly, moving bipedally and on its knuckles, before stopping, swaying, and climbing over a rock wall. The witness rode to a nearby house and waited until morning.
While bowhunting, man saw creature walking
The witness was bowhunting from a tree stand when a creature walked past about 75 yards away. He noticed the distinctive swinging motion of its arms and hands as it moved. At the time he was unfamiliar with Bigfoot and described what he saw to his hunting partner as a swish bear.
Sighting and vocalizations at a home in Wayne National Forest
Late at night two companions were watching TV in a mobile home when they heard a noise at the front. The witness looked through the door window and described a large face peering in that then screamed and pushed away. Both went out the back and watched the figure step over a barbed-wire fence and run away hunched over with very long arms. A next-day search found no tracks, but they measured the door window at seven and a half feet above the ground.
Woman recalls sighting near Williamsport
In the summer of 1970 the witness was walking with a pony and dog in thick woods behind the family home when a large dark hairy biped was seen on a hill beyond a fence about 50 feet away. The witness fled in fright while the animals showed no reaction. The figure was never seen again.
Man spots Bigfoot in field
The witness was driving a spray rig along an orchard boundary and scanning a neighboring field when a tall dark figure was seen walking about 100-150 yards away. The witness stopped the vehicle and watched from the hood as the figure moved with a smooth human-like stride into a walnut grove and did not reappear. A few days later the witness estimated the figure's height from a comparison tree and found no footprints on the hard soil.
Child encounters a man-like creature in a shed
As a child the witness hid in an old corn crib during a hide-and-seek game near a relative's house at sundown. Inside the dark crib the witness heard heavy breathing and saw a huge hairy man-like creature standing over them staring, with a hog-pen-like smell. The witness ran back to the house crying and reported the encounter to a relative, who did not take it seriously.
Sasquatch sighting near Williamsport, Maryland
A relative later saw a bear-like animal on all fours from a window that entered a stream and went out of sight around a bend.
A man relates a series of occurrences on the family farm involving an upright walking hair covered creature
As a young boy at the family property, the witness saw a tall strong creature standing over the burn barrel late at night and noticed a memorable smell. The witness believes the creature continued to live in the hollow and woods around the childhood home.
Footsteps near Campbellsburg, Indiana
About a year later the same witness camped in the valley with companions, heard steps descend the valley wall and cross the creek into camp, had a cooler knocked over, and saw a large hairy head look into the tent before it left.
Sasquatch sighting near Mount Vernon, Illinois
A witness saw red eyes and a large bipedal form behind a tree about 40 feet away before it fled while a relative watched a large figure crouch on the pond dam about 125 feet away.
Wood knock near Mount Vernon, Illinois
Relatives outside north of the house heard tree knocking from the treeline, noticed a quick-dissipating skunk-like smell and agitated geese, and saw red eye-shine across the pond.
Daytime sighting by motorists along Hwy 6 near Glenwood
The witness and a companion were driving west on Highway 6 toward the coast when a large dark figure crossed the road ahead of them. The figure was first noticed from several hundred yards away and entered dense roadside forest with no path. By the time they reached the crossing point it had disappeared into foliage described as impassable.