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Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1900)
As retold from a casebook, a newly married woman home alone while her husband hauled potatoes to Aberdeen saw a big ape-like creature walking on the porch around the house.
Sasquatch sighting near Coal Valley, Pennsylvania (1897)
A dairyman went into the woods to look for a stray cow and noticed a strange monster coming toward him. He fled in the opposite direction. This was presented as one of several sightings prompting a capture expedition.
Sasquatch sighting near Coal Valley, Pennsylvania (1897)
A homeowner saw a hair-covered ape-like or very old man-like being come up to his porch and look in the window while walking on hind legs. When he went for a gun, it bounded over the porch railing and disappeared into the woods.
Sasquatch sighting near Halstead, Pennsylvania (1895)
A very tall hair-covered wild woman was reported riding a taken balance wheel and encountering a peddler with a horse. She allegedly broke the horse's neck with one jerk, rendered the peddler unconscious, and dragged the horse to the woods where bones were later found. Pursuers found huge footprints and piles of rattlesnake skins but did not locate her.
Sasquatch sighting near Winstead, Connecticut (1895)
A town selectman chasing a lost hog stopped in a clearing to pick blackberries. He saw a naked, hair-covered figure weighing about 180 pounds. The figure noticed him, made an unfamiliar sound, bounded over bushes, and disappeared.
Sasquatch sighting near Middleburg, Pennsylvania (1894)
Two boys reported being chased by a wild man while in a wooded patch of road. Their story was initially disbelieved. The teller presents this as one of two related weekend reports of a red-bearded giant carrying a club.
Vocalizations heard from creature seen by witness
A father and son were returning from an unsuccessful hunting trip when the father stopped by a fallen tree to light his pipe and saw a tall hairy unclothed figure standing nearby. The figure vocalized loudly after noticing the man, then walked quickly toward the woods. The son joined his father and both watched the first figure and a second slightly smaller one walk along the woods edge before disappearing into the trees.
Sasquatch sighting near Inyo County (1871)
Teamsters camping by a lake reported a ghost-like naked figure stealing scraps and plunging into the water when spoken to or shot at. In fall 1871 men saw it clearly as a large hairy man eating scraps. Investigators later found a cave with rags, bones, and a dead naked man.
Sasquatch sighting near Kirkland Lake, Ontario
A relative and a companion reportedly had a couple of visual encounters with something they believed to be the same type of creature in the same area.
Sasquatch sighting near Bruce Mines, Ontario
The witnesses once saw a large bobcat walk up the lane in front of their house in winter.
Sasquatch sighting near Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
Two girls reported seeing a motionless black shape about 60 feet away behind trees and bushes near the camp toilet earlier that evening.
Morning daylight encounter with grouse hunter on Indian Island 45 km east of Fort Francis
The witness, then 14, was hunting grouse alone with a dog on overgrown trails in northern Ontario in the morning. After noticing a strong odor and the dog fleeing, a large upright hair-covered creature rose from tall grass nearby, looked briefly, and crossed the trail silently into brush. The witness froze, then ran back the way they came while hearing branches breaking as the creature moved away.
Boy sneaks up on huge "man" at edge of playground at night
On a windy night in fall 1976, a teenager out walking reached a school track and noticed a very tall, naked, hair-covered figure standing near a baseball backstop. The witness hid behind a transformer and watched the still figure sway slightly for a few minutes before slipping away unseen. A check the next morning found no clear tracks.
Sasquatch sighting near Lethbridge, Alberta
Several other people reported seeing a tall hunched figure carrying brown fur pelts walking on the river around the same time.
Sasquatch sighting near Grande Prairie, Alberta
The witness had encountered a grizzly sow grazing in a roadside ditch the previous summer.
Odor near Rossland, British Columbia
Several years later in the same general area the witness and companions staying in a remote cabin smelled the same odor, heard scream-like yells all night, and the witness saw a bipedal figure outside while gathering firewood.
Memory told of a nighttime sighting while traveling on a mountainside near Rossland
The witness was riding in the back seat of a car driving up a mountain dirt road in the evening to watch the sky. In the headlights at a hairpin where a creek crossed the road, she saw a tall grey hairy figure bent over the creek. It stood, took a long stride, stepped up a steep dirt bank and disappeared into trees within moments. A companion in the back seat also saw it and was frightened, while the two occupants in the front seat were looking elsewhere and saw nothing.
Man recollects multiple encounters from 1970 to present near Kootenay, Chadsey & Davis Lakes
On a warm summer night in 1993, the witness rode with two companions in a truck from the lakeside cabin toward a property above. In the headlights about 100 metres away they saw a small dark hairy creature crouched on all fours in the road with long straight legs, no visible tail or protruding ears, and large bright shining eyes. After a moment of sudden fear the group drove up a driveway, discussed the sighting briefly, and returned minutes later to find nothing.
Highpitched vocalizations heard near Morrisville
The witness was visiting a relative's remote cabin in Vermont late at night when the group heard a loud, child-like screaming approaching from a wooded ridge. The source was described as moving quickly along the ridge and disturbing dogs as it passed. It approached to within about 100 feet of the porch where the witness stood with a relative, then turned and left down the valley. The only visual was a dark shape with eyeshine about four feet off the ground, and the source was never identified.
Early morning sighting by 10 year old child in a backyard tent in the Lower Fraser Valley
The witness was sleeping outdoors in a field with two companions near the woods. On waking early in the morning, the witness watched a single large dark creature walk along the edge of the woods past them while maintaining eye contact. The observation lasted seconds, after which the witness went back to sleep without waking the companions.