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Possible daylight sighting by boy near Meridian
The witness was walking alone in thick woods carrying a BB gun late in the morning. The witness noticed a brown-colored subject moving very fast at an angle across the view, first thinking it was a person on a dirt bike. The witness then realized there was no engine noise, only the sound of breaking sticks, and left the area quickly without telling anyone at the time.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1981)
The witness crawled through a cane thicket to inspect an oak tree for a deer stand and found a large hairy creature sleeping. It woke, stood, paced and vocalized, then bluff-charged to within a few yards before veering off and crashing through the thicket. The witness kept his rifle ready, backed out scratched by briars, and was followed by screaming until he reached his truck and drove home.
Witnesses tell of a sighting they had as teenagers outside Jackson - w/sketch by artist
Four people parked in a car by a small pond at night heard a loud growl from across the water. When headlights were turned on they saw a large dark hairy figure with a cone-shaped head and green eyes that moved its head and made grunting sounds. After difficulty starting the car, they heard a loud prolonged roar and saw the figure still there as they drove away.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1979)
While family played in the front yard, the guest and his young nephew went to the back pasture gate and found it open. The nephew fled saying monster, and the guest then saw a tall slender black figure standing by trees with hands on a branch, watching the yard. The guest ran to tell his mother.
Child sees a large, dark face staring at him from the bushes.
The witness was sitting at the edge of a creek swimming hole with a young relative while companions played in the water. The witness stared at a bush across the water and then discerned a large dark face watching from between branches, with very large hands also visible. After a short time the witness became terrified, grabbed the relative and fled screaming, followed by the others. Only the witness reported seeing the face.
Nighttime sighting by teens, near Meridian
Three teenagers stopped at night on a dirt road near a one-lane bridge to relieve themselves. They heard repeated grunting and growling from an oak tree with a thrashing limb, then watched a large hairy biped drop into a ditch and run through the car's high-beam illumination. It leapt off the bridge bank out of sight while its footsteps were heard continuing south, after which the group fled in the car.
Family witness a large, hair covered creature eating food from their garden.
The witness woke upstairs at night after a neighbor's dog barked and looked out a window with siblings at a garden below. They described a large human-like entity covered in dark hair squatting and eating vegetables, which looked up with glowing eyes but showed no fear. After a relative fired a gun into the air, the entity stood, ran bipedally toward nearby woods and a river, and large human-like footprints were found in the garden the next morning.
Several incidents in the East Fork Community
The witness and a friend were in the woods near a creek bottom when the friend sensed being watched. The witness saw a figure about 25 yards away that was squatting, then stood seven to eight feet tall, covered in very dark brown hair except the face, and walked upright. It followed them to the edge of the wood line with a long stride and swinging arms while making whistling noises.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1970)
Three children were catching lightning bugs in a pasture at dusk while their grandfather called them from the porch. The grandfather saw an upright figure on a fence line drop to all fours and lope toward the children. He ran shouting, the children froze or fled, and the creature stopped, stood erect, then walked away into cedar trees while watching them.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1969)
The witness and his siblings were catching fireflies in a pasture when their grandfather saw something loping toward them on all fours and ran shouting to distract it. The children then saw a hairy, mangy-looking creature approach within about ten yards. It stopped when the grandfather arrived, stood erect while watching them, then walked into the [name withheld].
while playing tag with several other children witness saw a white hairy creature.
About 30 years ago in Columbus, the witness was playing tag with a group of children in a front yard at dusk when the other children fled frightened toward nearby adults. The witness then saw a white, hairy, slightly hunched figure standing and peeking around the corner of a duplex, with the top of its head level with the top of a window estimated at over seven feet. The figure moved slightly side to side before the witness backed away, and it was gone when checked shortly after, with no trace found the next morning.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1966)
The witness, then six, woke at night in a shared bedroom and heard cooing and clicking outside. He saw a large monkey-like creature leaning over a fence about 15 to 20 yards from the window, swaying its head. He woke his younger brother, both ran to their mother, who told them to go back to sleep without checking.
Creature seen by witnesses
The reporter recounts childhood stories from older relatives about a creature inhabiting a swampy, logged area. One story describes relatives and companions seeing a strange human-like figure beside their dying fire. Other stories describe loggers abandoning work in fright and hunting dogs being attacked and disappearing for days.
Morning sighting by hunter in Homochitto National Forest near Knoxville
The witness was deer hunting in the morning and waiting against a tree when a nearby deer spooked. He then heard heavy breathing and saw a tall hair-covered upright creature standing a few feet behind him. He fled leaving his gun, then returned with two companions to find large three-toed tracks leading to a creek.
Sasquatch sighting near Burnsville, Mississippi
The driver broke down on a rainy highway and was working in the back of a tall cargo van. A snorting sound came from outside, and a large hairy face appeared inches away in the open door. The creature vibrated the van with a loud growl, reacted to a pistol, then left. Lightning revealed two more figures nearby, and the driver fired and fled to town.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi
A seven-year-old on grandparents porch watched a huge baboon-faced biped at a neighbor trailer window interact with a small woman, who then set out caged animals. A second breasted creature crawled around the trailer, stood, took the cages, and both left.
UFO sighting in Mississippi
On the night the family moved away, they burned trash and drove to the road. A sister pointed to a light apart from the fire. The guest described it as a comical-looking UFO, not a saucer, before they drove on.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi
A visiting young relative stayed overnight at the farmhouse. He later said a monkey-like figure stared at him through the bedroom window all night. He was too frightened to call out and asked to be taken back home the next morning.
Partial sighting in Mississippi
Late at night the family heard the chickens in an uproar. The uncle went outside, thought he saw a panther-like animal, retrieved a gun and fired. Other male relatives came out and also fired, then believed they had scared it off.
Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi
The neighbor woman was hanging laundry beside her trailer with her toddler nearby. A creature seized the child and started down the driveway with it. She chased it with a garden hoe, struck it, and it dropped the child and ran toward the woods by the witness family property.