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Summer 1990 Winsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut Class A #78609

Three witnesses watch a "Winsted Wildman" two miles SW of Winsted

The witness and two companions stopped during a daytime drive to look from a bridge down into a dry dam area. The witness noticed a large gray creature moving quickly away from under the bridge through stones and brush, leaning forward and appearing to have no visible head. The group quickly returned to the car and drove away.

Partial sighting
June 1989 Bristol/Burlington Town Line, Hartford County, Connecticut Related account #74290

Sasquatch sighting near Bristol/Burlington Town Line, Connecticut (1989)

The witness and a relative claimed to see a Bigfoot from a car in the same neighborhood.

Partial sighting
1983–1987 Connecticut #21f69b2e-7990-44db-9e8e-0a33110c35dd

UFO sighting in Connecticut (1983)

While working evening and midnight shifts as an officer the witness says the department was repeatedly called about silent lights in the sky, often described as five lights in a triangle that disappeared. The airport reported nothing on radar and the calls were laughed off.

Partial sighting
3 June 1976 Stevenson, Fairfield County, Connecticut Class A #77112

Daylight encounter on railroad bed near lower Paugussett State Park

The witness was walking along railroad tracks toward a friend's house when they tripped, looked up, and saw a tall dark figure ahead. The figure looked at the witness, then quickly ran off the tracks, up a small embankment, and into the woods within seconds. The witness described it as very tall, fully covered in dark hair, and making no noise.

Full-body sighting
middle of summer 1976, like July August Connecticut #21f69b2e-7990-44db-9e8e-0a33110c35dd

Sasquatch sighting in Connecticut (1976)

At age 14 on a summer day the witness was walking between the rails looking down when he stumbled forward. He looked up to see a tall hairy silhouette about 50 to 75 feet away. It stood briefly then turned, took a few steps up a rocky incline and went into the woods without sound.

Full-body sightingSilhouette
November 1968 South Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut Class A #847

Daytime sighting from a farm house in the hilly area of Newton farm, outside South Kent

As a child, the witness watched from a second-floor farmhouse window as a tall, hairy biped crossed the front yard uphill, repeatedly glancing back and briefly meeting his gaze before disappearing around the house. Frightened, he ran to his parents, and a relative and a companion went outside and found oversized footprints that they followed by car across a plowed field until the tracks led uphill toward the forest and disappeared.

Full-body sightingEyeshine
August 1953 White Hills Region, Shelton, Fairfield County, Connecticut Class A #16408

Children observe bipedal animal walking along railroad tracks near the Housatonic River

In 1953 three young children were picking blackberries near a railroad track when a tall hair-covered biped came down a steep hillside and walked north along the tracks, looking at them briefly. The witness recalled long arms, a long stride, a primate-like face, and a thin build with short dark hair. The children ran back to the cottage to tell parents, who dismissed the account.

Full-body sighting
1895 Winstead, Connecticut #c5cd99c4-55f7-4913-bfd7-7a9321863b43

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.

Full-body sightingVocalization
About a month after my sighting Bridgewater CT, Litchfield County, Connecticut Related account #48732

Sasquatch sighting near Bridgewater CT, Connecticut

About a month later the witness and a companion watched a hairy bipedal creature stand above five-foot grass for several minutes before it retreated to the woods.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut Related account #58379

Sasquatch sighting near Torrington, Connecticut

The witness told an investigator he saw something upright on two legs run across the field within a hundred yards, moving fast and effortlessly before vanishing into timber.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Connecticut #c6ab5ec3-e69e-4af6-8817-f682007be113

Sasquatch sighting in Connecticut

The witness's father as a youth was snapping turtle fishing from a small boat with his grandfather at a secluded pond. They saw something move easily through the woods, pause to peer from behind a tree at them, then disappear. The grandfather dismissed it as a bear but the father remained terrified.

Partial sighting
my 18th birthday, December 26 Cornwall, Connecticut #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/KcQSPG0ibmmvcEvpa9fzroW8YMWKsNniDpLthrMOoy4

Footsteps near Cornwall, Connecticut

The witness and a friend hiked into Dudleytown to look for ruins and heard something paralleling them that stopped and started with them. After the friend headed back, the witness saw a six-foot bipedal figure with long arms take a quick lateral step behind a tree and disappear. They both then hurried out of the woods.

FootstepsPartial sightingSilhouette
about two or three years ago Connecticut #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/kTDgzxKGmJusUbFfUiu5FEkGl-kZ7GWDLMMvIOBm3kQ

Sasquatch sighting in Connecticut

At night the witness shone a flashlight from his porch and saw a very tall wide reddish figure watching him from a tree. Its eyes glowed red-orange-yellow. He offered apples and ate one to coax it closer, but it only swayed and stepped behind the tree from the light, then left silently without taking the apple.

Full-body sightingEyeshine
when I was probably about 11, 12 years old Connecticut #21f69b2e-7990-44db-9e8e-0a33110c35dd

UFO sighting in Connecticut

At age 11 or 12 while riding in the back seat home from a county fair the witness looked out over the mountains and saw a distant wide string of red yellow green white lights moving back and forth for about 15 seconds. He told his parents who said they saw nothing, and then it disappeared.

Partial sighting