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133 encounters
1977–1981 Lisbon, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana Class A #2080

Multiple happenings over several years time span

At night while at home, the witness and two relatives heard a loud impact that shook the rear of the house. They then observed a tall, large dark hair-covered figure passing a high dining-room window and filling it from edge to edge. A relative retrieved a firearm and the household stayed awake for most of the night.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
Summer 1977 Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma Class B #2789

Camper says a sasquatch entered a cabin of sleeping girls.

During a church retreat campground stay, the witness lay awake in a top bunk on a stormy night after lights-out. She heard the screen door open and shut, smelled a foul odor, heard heavy shuffling steps and breathing with a soft growl behind her bunk, and felt something large and furry trace her face. She next remembers waking on the floor, and the next morning a bunkmate said she had seen a big black hairy creature standing behind the witness.

Door or window contactFootstepsOdorGrowlAnimal behaviour +1
1977 Sussex County, New Jersey #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/06/30/sc-ep37-cops-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting near Sussex County (1977)

A family on a farm found a solid wooden garage door torn off and eight pet rabbits killed and mutilated with little blood, after hearing a woman-like scream. On subsequent nights they saw a seven-foot hairy creature near the road and under the yard light. They fired on it as it entered the coop and came toward them, then sent children away. Police blamed a bear, raccoon or wild dog.

Full-body sightingScreamProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
7 July 1976 Cumberland, Barron County, Wisconsin Class B #1432

Someone or something walks by house and peers from around a tree

As a child the witness was at home at night with siblings and a cousin when the doorbell rang repeatedly with no one there. An older brother became hysterical after seeing something peeking from behind a tree and gesturing, and later a neighbor arrived saying something had followed him in the woods. Two older girls then saw a dark form at the bottom of a trail that moved and had red eyes, and also something with a cone-shaped head peeking around a garage, and the younger children later saw a large figure pass by a window.

Partial sightingEyeshineDoor or window contactAnimal behaviour
Summer 1976 DOYLINE, Webster Parish, Louisiana Class B #23882

Woman recounts incident involving her father near town of Doyline on Lake Bistinue

Late one evening in 1976, a neighbor arriving home reportedly found a large hairy dark man-like creature on his porch. The creature fled when headlights hit it and leaped over a six-foot fence. The neighbor's wife had been inside holding a pistol after hearing something pull on the screen door. The witness's father then saw the creature run and leap a wide creek, hearing a grunt on landing, before it disappeared.

Full-body sightingDoor or window contactVocalization
1975 Antlers, Oklahoma #2f7eaa58-0d7a-4bf5-9858-57aac63df1d2

Sasquatch sighting near Antlers, Oklahoma (1975)

Later the same night the witness was lying awake in the shared bedroom when the same face appeared at the window and stared at him. His brother leaned out to look, saw it, screamed and ran out. Their father grabbed a gun and went outside but found nothing.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
1 November 1974 Indiana #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/emxwtZ2Fw-5pmgp2LbbBKp6yQuE0M6VuF9UCVxWFsX0

Sasquatch sighting in Indiana (1974)

Two women eating in a parked car saw a very tall greenish creature come from the woods, beat on the windshield and try to bite through glass before they drove to police. Officers doubted them until seeing car damage and stench.

Full-body sightingDoor or window contactOdor
1 November 1974 Columbus, Indiana #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/yACcTYjnJtaTJHny5xswFcHifrrOYuZI7FaI0hSnIvk

Sasquatch sighting near Columbus, Indiana (1974)

Two women stopped in Mill Race Park in the evening to eat and talk when a very tall creature came from the woods to their car. It beat on the windshield and tried to bite through the glass while they screamed, then the driver started the car and they fled to report it to police.

Partial sightingDoor or window contactVehicle contactOdor
1973–1975 Cotton, Cooper County, Missouri Class A #44283

Family members describe screaming and house smacking near Prairie Home

Five women staying overnight at a rural farmhouse heard loud piercing screams approaching from up a hill toward the house. A backlit tall, large-framed figure walking hunched over passed in front of the front picture windows and beat on the house, and a very hairy leg was seen when the front door was opened. The figure then went around the corner of the house and disappeared, leaving a burning skunk-like smell. Two men who had been away returned later and searched the large farm into the early morning without finding anything.

ScreamSilhouettePartial sightingDoor or window contactOdor
10 October 1972 Verona Beach, Oneida County, New York Class B #27035

Man recounts childhood incident at his home on Oneida Lake

The witness, age 11 at the time, was in bed when a large shadow was cast on the bedroom wall from outside the window for about 20 to 30 seconds. A few minutes later the witness heard the back storage room door being ripped off and sounds of ransacking, including the freezer being opened and heavy objects moved. The next morning the storage room was found in disarray with the door off, faint scratches without tool marks, and frozen foods missing.

SilhouetteUnidentified soundDoor or window contactProperty disturbance
June 1972 Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OxWGFnMaBANz91pZyraU_fyUy90HE9u7L06r7QW5K9w

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1972)

Guest age 7 and his grandfather saw a tall upright figure standing above the corn at the edge of the field in the evening and went inside. Later that night the guest woke to a strong odor and saw a dark hairy figure filling the bedroom window looking in, while his grandfather held a pistol. The figure moved to the front porch where the grandfather fired a shotgun through the screen door, after which it fled up the road vocalizing with screams and distant whoops.

Partial sightingOdorFootstepsScreamGrowl +2
May 1972 Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/12/25/sc-ep393-the-christmas-show

Scream (1972)

A couple with the wife's mother camped on newly bought mountain land. After dark a very loud siren-like scream lasting seconds came from close in the woods, prompting the husband to get a gun. Later that night something leaned against the mother's side of the tent and she struck it with a heavy lantern. The husband later said he saw red eyes during the scream.

ScreamEyeshineDoor or window contact
Summer 1971 Vincent, Washington County, Ohio Class A #4983

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.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingScreamUnidentified soundDoor or window contact
1970–1974 Rainier, Oregon #804840f3-2653-4f6e-998e-b89f4c7d6483

Sasquatch sighting near Rainier, Oregon (1970)

The witness describes three years of repeated encounters after his family moved onto a wooded hillside property. Four ape-like animals repeatedly approached the trailers, peered in windows, vocalized at night, left tracks, damaged structures, and killed livestock. The father shot the largest animal in the shoulder near the pump house, after which the animals moved faster and more cautiously but continued the activity. Forestry and law-enforcement visitors reportedly told the father to stop shooting, and timber workers and well drillers also encountered the animals.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingHowlVocalizationFootsteps +4
1969 Garrison, Texas #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/07/05/sc-ep120-saquatch-at-my-window

Sasquatch sighting near Garrison, Texas (1969)

The four-year-old guest woke scared at night in his mother's bedroom and went to the bathroom. On returning, he heard a scratch and looked up to see a creature close in the window grinning and beckoning him. He panicked, jumped onto his brother, and his brothers later searched outside with rifles and found disturbed ground under the window.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
Summer 1968 Ontario Class A #9516

Woman recalls childhood sighting outside a cottage in the Southern Georgian Bay area

As an 11-year-old lying alone in bed at the family island cottage, the witness felt watched from the windows behind her. She turned to see a large round head looking in through an open casement window. The head quickly ducked down and audibly struck the window pane, after which she ran to the adults, who dismissed the incident as a dream.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
Fall 1968 Wheeler, Weber County, Utah Class A #2347

Witness observes a pair of glowing red eyes looking in the window.

In the fall of 1968, the witness was home late at night watching television while a small child slept in another room. After getting up, the witness saw glowing red eyes and a dark outlined shape in the window behind the chair. The witness waited, then called law enforcement to report a prowler and while waiting heard windows and the back door rattle softly. Deputies arrived much later and remarked the figure must have been fairly tall, and no tracks were found the next day because of leaves.

Partial sightingSilhouetteEyeshineDoor or window contact
Spring 1945 Eldorado, White County, Illinois Class A #49954

Memory told of encounter at a remote cabin at Sandy Run

The main witness was sleeping in the front room of a remote lakeside cabin with a relative when she awoke at night to the porch screen door opening and footsteps. She watched a large, red-haired, bipedal figure pass three front windows and pause at the door to peer inside, bending down to look in. Frightened, she fled to sleep with her grandparents and did not speak of the incident for years.

Partial sightingFootstepsDoor or window contact
10 July 1924 Washington #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/09/03/sc-ep357-1924-ape-canyon

Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1924)

Five miners were sleeping in their log cabin when multiple creatures attacked through the night. The beings threw rocks, tried to force the door, climbed on the roof, and dug underneath. At dawn the creatures left, and the shaken men hiked out to get help.

Full-body sightingRock throwingDoor or window contactProperty disturbanceTracks
July 1924 Washington #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/13/sc-ep54-ape-canyon-sasquatch-attacks

Tracks in Washington (1924)

Five miners prospecting near Mount St. Helens found large tracks and later shot at a creature watching near a tree. That night multiple creatures attacked their cabin, throwing rocks and trying to enter from all sides including the roof. The men fired back until just before dawn when the creatures left.

TracksPartial sightingRock throwingDoor or window contact