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Brothers have strange experience above Strawberry
A group staying in a high-elevation pine forest reported repeated large footprints and strange nighttime sounds over an unspecified period. During one late-night episode, one person looking out from a shelter saw a large shape briefly enter moonlight and then leave. A very large size and long stride were reported for the shape and tracks.
Sasquatch encountered standing by porch
The witness had been asleep at home when his wife woke him after hearing a strange growling sound close to the house. He looked out the bedroom window in bright moonlight and saw a hair-covered creature with a humanlike face about 12 feet away that turned to stare toward him. He grabbed a shotgun and ran outside, but the yard was empty, so he fired into the air. The family dogs, missing for three days, returned the next day.
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.
Graceful creature ran by man when he was 15
While deer hunting alone from a stump, the witness saw a large human-like figure run through brush about 50 feet away. The figure was first mistaken for the witness's father, but the father then appeared elsewhere on foot, smaller and much noisier. The witness described the figure as huge, powerful, fast, graceful and quiet.
Woman recalls childhood experience of a terrifying night-time encounter while camping near Kennecott Copper mine
A family group of six was inside a large tent at night during a thunderstorm when they smelled an overpowering odor and heard loud screaming approach. A large hairy figure stood over the tent, visible in lightning flashes, screaming for several minutes while the occupants huddled in fear. An adult companion left the tent, apparently confronted the creature amid scuffling and growling, then returned pale and blocked the zipper until dawn when the group left.
Man recalls incident as a child in a swampy area near Cazenovia
When the witness was a young child, the witness and a companion were chopping a rotted fallen tree with hammers far out in a swamp. After hearing a loud noise described as like a scream, they saw a very large dark man-like form walking very near them. Both children dropped everything and ran home without looking back.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1970)
As a small child sleeping in an isolated Florida ranch house on a bright summer night, the guest was awakened by livestock panic followed by silence and approaching footsteps. A massive dark form filled the bedroom window and seemed to look down at him while breathing heavily, terrifying him so badly he tried to hide under the mattress. He later identified the hairy arm seen in a movie as matching what was at his window.
Sasquatch sighting near Grantsville, West Virginia (1970)
The guest and his younger brother were on summer vacation at their grandfather's hillside house in West Virginia. After the younger brother fled the back bedroom saying a hairy face had pushed through the unscreened window while sniffing the air, both boys ran outside and, in headlights reflected off the siding, watched a dark bipedal figure go down the rear embankment and crash through a dense briar thicket. The next morning their uncle turned pale when told and warned them to stay out of the back.
Sasquatch sighting near Lenexa, Kansas (1970)
While throwing a football alone at night, the witness noticed a small head with pointed ears peeking from behind tall hedge bushes and threw the ball toward it after it repeatedly ducked. Later that same night while sleeping near a low bedroom window, a much larger hairy face appeared at the glass, made eye contact, shifted its eyes, wrinkled its brow and opened a wide mouth showing pointed teeth. The witness fled to a parent's room while heavy pacing was felt and heard around the house, then police were called but found nothing. The next morning the witness found large prints around windows and garden, recalled repeated early-morning howls, a growl with a branch breaking, grunting in the basement and a violently shaking backyard tree.
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.
Sasquatch sighting in Tennessee (1970)
The witness, recently out of the military, was fly-fishing with three relatives in a steep, remote river gorge. He turned to see an upright animal at close range that quickly climbed the steep bank to the ridgeline. The group then heard extremely loud guttural vocalizations and huffs, saw movement on the ridge, and had a large rock land in the water near them. They left at dusk and later agreed among themselves it had not been a bear despite one relative's dismissive explanation.
Sasquatch sighting in Ohio (1970)
The witness's grandfather stayed late fishing at the private lake after the owner left, then drove out alone down the gravel lane. His headlights revealed a huge black figure that jumped up and crossed the road into the woods with remarkable speed. He was badly shaken, stopped visiting the lake, and only told family about it years later.
Sasquatch sighting (1970)
A group of hunters in the 1970s were charged by a creature that came out of the woods. The animal threatened them while they were hunting. The researcher cites this as another example of aggressive southern encounters.
Sasquatch sighting near Eagle Creek, Oregon (1970)
At age 11 the witness rode on the side of her mother's pickup as her mother backed toward the road at night. Brake lights illuminated a very tall white or silver figure standing by a bushy tree about 10 feet away. It stared and snarled at her with dark eyes, then she threw herself flat in the truck bed as her mother drove away.
Sasquatch sighting near Grand Marais, Minnesota (1969)
The witness was deer hunting alone from a ground blind in northern Minnesota. A frightened doe ran into the blind and lay down behind the witness. Shortly after, two large hairy creatures appeared on either side, one stepping briefly out of a cornfield and another showing only the top of its head in brush, vocalizing and moving around before leaving, after which the deer walked away and the witness left.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1969)
At about age 14 the guest sat leaning against the living room window watching TV. She turned and found a huge hairy biped less than three feet away on the other side of the glass staring at her. She felt paralyzed with fear while it breathed heavily with visible steam before a passing car startled her free.
Couple sees "something" looking through their window late at night
The witness and his wife were lying awake in a lakeside cabin at night when his wife repeatedly said a raccoon was looking in a small rear window. After several minutes he rolled over quickly and saw a dark-faced, brown-furred creature with a large conical head peering in, which left within seconds. The next morning he found a single large heel/footprint about eight inches wide in mud by a small stream behind the cabin.
Encounter during a summer camp campout near the Brazos River
During a multi-day canoe camping trip along a river, the witness and a companion chased an animal to the top of a cliff near camp. The witness collided with a large hair-covered creature and both the creature and the two companions screamed. The pair fled in panic over the cliff edge and survived the fall, while other campers heard the screams and saw the fall.
Woman followed by large, dark shape in the experimental forest on the campus of SUNY College
The witness was walking alone through a small college forest on a trail to work on a dark winter evening. Something off the trail followed alongside her, keeping pace and making increasingly loud breaking and movement sounds, and she glimpsed a very tall blocky dark shape moving beside her while hearing breathing. She stayed on the trail with it alongside until the edge of the woods, then ran to a nearby building while it remained in the woods.
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.