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Possible encounter with soldier training training in the Olympic National Forest
The witness was taking part in a nighttime military training exercise in a forested area in 1966 and was returning alone to the company area around 3-4 a.m. He noticed the outline of a large upright figure coming down a steep sandy hill toward a logging road while hearing footsteps and shifting dirt. When he challenged the figure, it responded with a loud growl, and he ran to the campfire without hearing pursuit. He initially told others the pursuer was a bear but later concluded it had walked on two legs and was a bigfoot.
Multi-witness road-crossing sighting outside Fort St.John
In 1965 a family of five was driving on the Alaska Highway in the early evening when an upright hairy figure crossed the road directly in front of their pickup near Mile 91. The occupants in both the cab and the camper watched it cross quickly. They later stopped at a cafe where the father made a joking remark about what they had seen. A lingering egg-like smell was also noted in connection with the crossing.
Youth's presence startles unknown animal
As a teenager cutting through dense swampy woods on a military reservation, the witness noticed the forest go silent and felt watched. He saw a brown, long-haired form that rose to an estimated 8-10 feet and crashed rapidly through thick brush. He remained frozen until normal forest sounds returned, then left and never returned to the area.
Witness recalls seeing a sasquatch cross the road near Enterprise
The witness and his young brother were driving with the convertible top down around Pelican Lake on a bright August midday. As they approached a sharp jog in a rural road bordered by mature forest, they saw a tall hair-covered biped walking slowly across the road. The creature turned to look at them for several moments, then moved quickly off the roadside and disappeared. The driver stopped, searched briefly on foot without finding a trace, and the pair returned to their cottage shaken.
UFO sighting near Southwick, Massachusetts (1965)
Prior to the 1984 encounter, the witness was driving with passengers toward her mother's house when a bright light crossed her windshield and returned. Further down the mountain a very bright light sat low over a farmhouse and ditch. She drove past it within about 50 feet while it lit the area like daylight, then watched it rise, change shape, follow, and vanish near the lakes.
Daylight sighting by residents near Yakima River
When the witness was about ten in the 1960s, the witness and three other children went into thick woods near the river to feed cows at a pond. About 30 feet away a tall hairy figure stepped into full view from a clearing, took one long step, and disappeared behind a bush. The children ran home and were not believed.
Three witnesses throwing rocks in lake see a Bigfoot peeking at them
Three teenagers were rolling boulders off a ledge above a lake when they noticed an upright, hair-covered animal watching them from the forest edge about 50-70 yards away. They watched it for about half an hour before leaving, returning the next day to estimate its height from where it had stood. The following morning they found stored food missing from camp.
Afternoon highway crossing near Felch
A woman driving east in daylight saw a tall black-haired upright figure cross the two-lane highway in front of her and disappear into brush on the other side. She stopped, locked her doors, waited, then drove to the crossing point and searched but could not locate where it entered the brush. She said it was too big to be human and took very long strides.
Apelike creature seen by children on a sand dune near Caseville
In summer 1965 the witness, then a child, joined other children searching sand dunes above Lake Huron after two children reported a frightening encounter. On a steep dune path in full moonlight she came face-to-face with a short orange-haired upright creature that growled, then grunted while swinging its arms and walking toward her. She fled to the beach and later learned her young sister had seen the same creature at close range from the side of the path.
Sasquatch sighting in California (1965)
A young boy walking home was attacked when a creature jumped out. The telling then describes someone grabbed through a car window who sped away and left the creature behind, though the transcript mixes pronouns and may combine two incidents.
Man remembers childhood daytime sighting along the Feather River
The witness walked to the top of a levee to look for a snake seen the day before. On the other side in a cottonwood tree he noticed a large ape-like creature with one leg swinging below a branch, and they made eye contact. After watching briefly he ran down the levee without looking back and told a relative, and the family then avoided the levee.
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.
Sasquatch sighting near Akron, Ohio (1965)
[name withheld]'s grandfather got up in winter to use the bathroom and looked out west under a tall yard light. He saw a barefoot figure that looked like a man in a fur coat walking through three-foot snow.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1965)
A young girl playing in a campground baseball field noticed everyone running toward camp. She turned to find a huge gorilla-like creature two or three feet away staring down at her. She ran in a circle around it while locked on its eyes until called, then fled to camp as the creature walked back into the woods without growling or baring teeth.
UFO sighting near Perry, Oklahoma (1965)
The witness's grandmother said she and a young relative living with the family repeatedly saw unidentified lights while sitting outside the house in the evenings during the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The sightings occurred at the family farm property.
Sasquatch sighting near Creek County (1965)
The guest and several boys camped in a thicket below their house and hung food in a bag to keep animals away. At night the dogs panicked and fled, a foul smell arrived, and the group saw a large man-like shape standing in brush about 20 feet away by campfire light. They fled to the house, and the next day found the hung food bag torn from its rope and gone.
Memories told of encounters experienced by a family living near Villa Grove
On a clear November mid-afternoon in 1964, several children and later their mother watched a distant upright black figure standing in a harvested corn field. The children shouted at it, it appeared to turn toward them then away, and a dog chased after it out of view. The mother, frightened, brought the children inside. Decades later the witness still interprets the figure as a bigfoot.
Witness observers 6 foot, shaggy, dark brown creature off Richardson Hwy
The witness was rabbit hunting along a dirt road when a very tall, shaggy dark brown figure appeared about 30 feet ahead, stared and grunted, then walked quietly into the woods. The witness did not feel threatened but turned back toward the car while hearing cracking branches and low-to-high tones from where the figure went. Some sounds were answered from the other side of the road, prompting the witness to walk faster.
Young picnicker sees strange creature on rocky ledge above the St. Vrain River
While gathering firewood during a family picnic along the river, the witness felt watched and looked up. He saw a large hair-covered human-like figure standing on a rocky ledge across the river. The figure looked back briefly, then turned and disappeared. The whole encounter lasted about thirty seconds.
Man retells his close, visual encounter at dawn on Pine Mountain as a young deer hunter
The witness, deer hunting at dawn from a ground position below a relative, watched a tall hair-covered biped step into a fire lane, pause and look toward the witness after hearing the witness speak, then cross and wait in brush before leaving downhill. The witness later found large barefoot-like tracks and noticed a strong foul odor at the crossing site. The witness did not shoot and initially told no one.