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8 August 1966 NEPTUNE NJ, Monmouth County, New Jersey Class A #16308

Man describes sighting during teen years in Alaire State Park

The witness, then a teenager, was riding in a car with friends at night near Allaire State Park when they heard a high-pitched screech. While making a K-turn, the headlights illuminated a very tall reddish-brown manlike figure very close to the front of the car. The figure appeared surprised by the lights, the driver froze, a companion honked the horn with no immediate reaction, and a musty smell was noticed.

Full-body sightingScreamOdor
July 1965 Myers Flat, Humboldt County, California Class A #6963

Teens have unusual experience near Myers Flat

Five boys were camping overnight in a repaired old logging cabin in the woods. During the night they were awakened by huffing, shuffling and prying sounds as something circled and probed the cabin walls. When the door was opened they saw only dark hairy legs in the darkness, a companion fired a rifle, and the creature screamed and fled with heavy thuds, leaving torn ground and indentations.

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October 1963 Tyler, Smith County, Texas Class A #1063

Coon hunters observe large, hairy "monkey" in pin oak

Late at night in 1963, the witness and four companions were hunting raccoons with dogs in a creek bottom south of Tyler, Texas. After the dogs treed something, the group illuminated a large reddish-furred animal in a pin oak that was howling and screaming while waving its arms and shaking limbs. After someone fired at it with a .22, it growled and the group fled with the dogs back to their vehicles.

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28 January 1963 Cold Springs, Tuolumne County, California Class B #2310

Large prints found below Cold Springs

On a Sunday night, repeated shrieks were heard in brushland where a roughly 10-foot-tall grotesque man-like figure was reported. Large prints measuring about 14 to 17 inches were found nearby over the next two days and were followed through a subdivision, park and camp area. A law enforcement leader later described the tracks as shoe prints made before a light snowfall and suggested a mountain lion as a possible source of the noises, while noting fresh lion tracks and no cabin break-ins.

Full-body sightingScream
15 August 1962 Murdoch, Charlotte County, Florida Class A #445

Boy Scouts have sighting while camping at Quednau Ranch

The witness was on a Boy Scout campout in the Murdoch area near Tampa. On the second night after midnight during an initiation outing with another scout, they saw a very large figure running bipedally into the woods at high speed while giving a high-pitched scream or shriek. A strange smell was noted but was attributed at the time to sulphur water. The troop reportedly never returned to the area to camp.

Partial sightingScream
October 1959 Marysville And Grass Valley, Yuba County, California Class B #7211

Hunters Have Unusual Night Time Encounter

While deer hunting and camped overnight, the witness and a companion heard a very loud yelling-like scream from nearby woods and followed the companion's dogs with rifles. In a flashlight beam they saw a bipedal figure handling the dogs, throwing one, which then turned toward them and fled into trees with crashing brush and a lingering odor. They left the area that night and heard the vocalization again from farther off while packing.

Partial sightingScreamOdorMovement only
1 August 1959 Graf, Dubuque County, Iowa Class B #36817

Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque

In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingSilhouetteFootstepsScream +2
1957 Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska Class A #25012

Woman recalls an encounter as a child, in an alley in the town of Valentine

Two children playing hide-and-seek ran into an alley and came face to face with a tall, dark-haired bipedal animal about fifteen feet away walking toward them. The animal screamed loudly without slowing or changing direction, prompting the children to scream and run home. They were not pursued and did not encounter it again.

Full-body sightingScream
1940–1949 Manitoba #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/12/15/sc-ep389-manitoba-bigfoot-encounter

Sasquatch sighting in Manitoba (1940)

An elderly mail carrier told the witness he was returning by horse and buggy from a dam community in the 1940s when a tall hair-covered wild man came from the bush screaming. His horse bolted and the creature ran alongside the wagon. He said he kept his head down and pretended not to see or hear it, which he believed saved him.

Full-body sightingScream
Summer 1924 British Columbia Class A #1091

Albert Ostman account -- Multiple-day encounter with family of Sasquatches

A prospector camping alone in coastal mountains awoke at night to being carried inside his sleeping bag for hours to a small enclosed valley. There he encountered four hair-covered individuals described as a family group and was held for about six days living on remaining canned food. He gained favor with the younger ones using snuff and handmade utensils, then incapacitated the adult male with a large dose of snuff and escaped during the resulting commotion, hiking south to a logging camp for help.

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1924 British Columbia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/10/18/sc-ep156-1924-albert-ostman-encounter

Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia (1924)

The witness was prospecting and camping near the head of Toba Inlet when supplies were disturbed for three nights. He was then carried inside his sleeping bag for about three hours to an enclosed valley. There a family group of four hair-covered beings held him for six days, during which he shared small gifts and observed their behavior. He escaped after the adult male swallowed snuff and became ill, then hiked out to civilization.

Full-body sightingChatterScream
Date unknown Place not stated Related account #10883

Scream

Others on the reserve reportedly had sightings and heard screams in different areas.

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A number of years later Rossland, British Columbia Related account #14511

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.

OdorScreamPartial sighting
BFRO YEAR: 1995/96 Morrisville, Lamoille County, Vermont Class B #1179

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.

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BFRO YEAR: 1989,1993 Essex County, New York Class A #1522

Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.

ScreamOdorFootstepsSilhouetteProperty disturbance +1
In the 1910’s Place not stated Related account #23956

Sasquatch sighting

Decades earlier the witness's grandfather and friends were chased by a big hairy screaming creature that banged on a house and farm animals were later found dead.

Partial sightingScreamProperty disturbance
a few other times Place not stated Related account #208

Scream

On a few other occasions the group heard the moan/scream and saw tall creatures run at high speed in front of them.

ScreamPartial sighting
around 1964-65 Place not stated Related account #50159

Sasquatch sighting

The witness's mother, as a child on summer vacation, heard screeching howls and saw a huge dark hunched figure on a hill that stood and raised its arms.

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Date unknown Place not stated Related account #417

Sasquatch sighting

Other hunters camping by a creek swamp cave have reported seeing dark brown creatures with screaming and tree-knocking.

Partial sightingScreamTree break
BFRO YEAR: 1985/86 Marietta, Greenville County, South Carolina Class B #791

very loud vocalizationSounds heard by four witnesses near a farmers field used for crops.

The witness was spending the weekend at a friend's house when the group heard loud high- and low-pitched screaming on a summer Saturday night. Three of them walked toward a field near a river with a flashlight and saw red eyes in the brush while hearing limbs breaking, then ran back to the house. Screaming reportedly continued for hours, and the next midday they found a snapped vine, bark torn high on a tree, disturbed ground, and a partial large heel print.

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