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Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1884)
In 1884 a rural community living around Ocheesee Pond lost livestock and heard eerie nighttime calls from the water. After children were frightened by a hair-covered figure, residents formed a posse, captured it, and transported it chained to the governor in Tallahassee. The governor could not place it and sent it to the nearby Chattahoochee hospital, where it died and was buried under later construction.
Sasquatch sighting
Stories from the late 1970s and 1980s describe animals running across the road, large bulls found with broken necks, and missing livestock.
Sasquatch sighting
A relative's older companion reportedly sighted a creature on a pond bank while hunting around age twelve.
Sasquatch sighting near Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania
A teenage boy working in backwoods heard what he thought was his younger brother whistling and approaching. He saw a small human-like being covered with black hair, tried to shoot it but trembled, and the being stepped behind a tree then ran off whistling. The boy returned home frightened and upset when recalling it.
Sasquatch sighting near Bridgewater, Pennsylvania
A berry picker encountered a small child-sized hair-covered being walking upright toward them while whistling like a person. After initial fright the witness pursued it, but it ran away very fast continuing to whistle. The teller notes locals afterward called it a name associated with its speed.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
A few years after the 1918 incident the community reportedly captured another hair-covered figure in the same swamp area. The teller suggests this individual and the 1918 figure were humans with a hair-growth condition from a family that arrived in 1901, distinct from the original 1884 wild man.
Sasquatch sighting near Mount Sterling, Illinois
A press account told of a wild man living in a cave or deserted mine who raided farms for calves and sheep despite a cash reward. A hunter entered the cave alone with a knife and fought hand-to-hand for an hour, reporting a towering, long-haired, savage-faced creature with thin bony hands. The hunter escaped crawled out at midnight exhausted after being knocked unconscious.
Paranormal encounter
Two companions traveling with money stopped for the night at a roadside tavern and shared a locked upper room. During the night one was seized around the throat by a heavy, hairy, naked figure that he wrestled off, but a light showed no intruder and no way in or out. Weeks later they heard another traveler had been found dead in the same room with marks on the throat.
Sasquatch sighting
Many years ago numerous sightings were rumored in the community and interpreted by elders as a warning during troubled times.