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13 May 1973 Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois Class A #26905

Fisherman has closeup encounter with a juvenile near Kankakee

While fishing with two companions in a rural backwater area, the witness walked the shoreline away from the group and then pushed backward through a tall hedge onto a grassy lane. Face-to-face at close range he encountered a short, stocky, brown-haired biped that then fled upright down the lane while he ran toward his companions. He described the being as fully hair-covered with dark eyes and elongated arms, moving with a flailing-armed jog, with no sound or odor noted.

Full-body sighting
May 1973 The Closest Town Would Have Been Naples. But We Thought It Was Too Far To Lodge Or Get A Meal., Collier County, Florida Class A #2856

Construction worker has startling encounter outside hunting cottage

The witness and a relative camped overnight at two unfinished houses in swampy pine woods while on a work assignment. After dark by a campfire the witness saw eyes and then watched a tall upright figure cross an open area and take bacon left near the fire. The witness retreated into the house, retrieved rifles, and kept watch through the night. No usable tracks were found the next morning.

Full-body sightingOdorUnidentified sound
May 1973 Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington Class A #1809

Two witnesses see a crouched figure on the beach. It stood up and walked into the nearby woods

The witness and a companion went to a remote rocky shoreline on Puget Sound to fish around 5:30 a.m. The witness saw a large dark hairy figure about 150 yards away bent over and apparently turning rocks. After the figure looked up and walked away on two legs, the two left without fishing.

Full-body sighting
April 1973 Ohio EP 349

Sasquatch sighting in Ohio (1973)

The witness drove two female passengers down an unfamiliar gravel dead-end road in a thunderstorm. During a lightning flash he and the passengers saw a thick upright silhouette standing in a cleared field. They fled immediately in the car.

Silhouette
April 1973 Estacada, Clackamas County, Oregon #96

Near Estacada - [name withheld] saw 5-ft, very broad Bigfoot digging at rotten tree stump

The witness reportedly observed a short, very broad Bigfoot digging at a rotten tree stump. No further details about the circumstances were provided.

Full-body sighting
April 1973 Leola, Grant County, Arkansas Class A #56954

Two young hunters hide and watch hairy bipedal animal walking near the Jenkins Ferry Battleground Historical Monument

The witness and a relative were waiting on a gravel road in forested wetland for daylight to hunt. They saw a tall hair-covered figure emerge at the roadside, pause, then walk across the road before slipping on the bank and entering the water and timber. They fled to their vehicle and left the area with a parent.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
1973 New Mexico EP 1163

Sasquatch sighting in New Mexico (1973)

The witness describes walking alone on a trail to a stream in New Mexico in 1973 when something crashed behind them. Turning around, they saw a very hairy bipedal creature about seven to eight feet tall that looked directly at them. They ran as it followed with loud thumping footsteps, then the steps stopped and it was gone, with a rotten-meat stench noticed afterward.

Full-body sightingFootstepsOdor
1973 Many, County County, Louisiana #1169

Eyewitness described ongoing encounters in 1980's

As a child helping with leaf raking at relatives' old homeplace, the witness was alone in the front yard when a strange sound was heard. Looking around, the witness saw a large tree-sized entity with piercing red eyes watching. The witness went to get a relative, but the entity was gone on return.

Partial sightingEyeshineUnidentified sound
1973–1974 Athens, Georgia EP 1021

Sasquatch sighting near Athens, Georgia (1973)

Three youths fished at a river inside a large fenced cemetery and walked back after dark. Each looked to the side and saw large shoulders, hands gripping an oak tree, and a head peering around it. All three fled, one jumping the fence and passing out, and later agreed on what they had seen.

Partial sighting
1973 Klamath County, Oregon #257

near Bly Mt. - Kids and Mom in camper exoerience growling, the camper is shaken and they see a large hairy body outside

Six occupants were inside a trailer at night when it began rocking on its foundation amid loud footsteps and strange breathing and rumbling sounds. Two occupants looking out a window saw only a dense mass of long glossy hair filling the view about six to seven feet off the ground. The group screamed loudly until the rocking and noises stopped. In the morning they found large handprints with thumbs in dust on the trailer roof but no tracks on the hard needle-covered ground.

Partial sightingGrowlVocalizationFootstepsProperty disturbance +1
1973 Medford, Grants Pass County, Oregon #4896

Woman and Father see Bigfoot on I-5

The witness and a relative were driving south on an interstate in the early morning mist. Their high beams lit up a very tall, thick-bodied figure covered head to toe in dark fur standing by the guard rail. The figure turned its head to watch them as they slowed to look and drove past without stopping.

Full-body sighting
1973 Eugene, Lane County, Oregon #454

Motorists glimpse creature along Hwy 126

The witness and a companion were coming home from the coast in the late afternoon. The witness noticed something peripherally, then looked back after passing and saw a face staring directly. Both the witness and companion concluded what they saw was bigfoot.

Partial sighting
January 1973 Josephine County, Oregon #242

Bigfoot steps into the path of a logging [name withheld]

A logging [name withheld] driver was traveling on the road between Grants Pass and Eureka when a nearly seven-foot-tall Bigfoot reportedly stepped into the [name withheld]'s path. The logging [name withheld] was reportedly badly damaged in the encounter.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingVehicle contact
1973 Louisiana EP 915

Partial sighting in Louisiana (1973)

Around age ten the witness was left alone in a deer box stand while adults returned to camp. For up to an hour about 150 yards away small trees swayed and crashed with continuous huffing and puffing, and he glimpsed something big and black between trees. His father later told him it was likely an escaped bison, which the witness accepted as a child but now questions.

Partial sightingVocalizationTree breakPossible misidentification
1973 Beaver County, Pennsylvania EP 750

Sasquatch sighting near Beaver County (1973)

A boy playing on the floor in a trailer looked left and saw movement outside the window. A creature walking by stopped and turned to look at him. Its eyes were not red until it saw him, then they glowed red.

Partial sightingEyeshine
1973 Beaver County, Pennsylvania EP 750

Sasquatch sighting near Beaver County (1973)

Girls reportedly saw lights in the sky in Beaver County in 1973. Afterwards a white creature holding a glowing sphere walked into the woods. The case was taken by another researcher and retold by the guest.

Full-body sighting
1973–1974 Staten Island, New York EP 494

Sasquatch sighting near Staten Island, New York (1973)

Retold newspaper reports describe a trasquatch around 1973-74 seen by two boys by a dump, a couple in a church lot, and a [name withheld] driving home. Police searched thinking bear or escaped gorilla and found nothing.

Full-body sighting
earlier in the summer, before the tent Pennsylvania EP 391

Footsteps in Pennsylvania (1973)

Earlier the same summer, the witness and a younger local girl were walking back from fishing when they felt followed through the trees. When they stopped the sounds stopped, and when they moved the sounds resumed, including an extra footstep. They glimpsed a form hiding behind a tree, first assuming Amish kids, but later wondering if it was Bigfoot paralleling them.

FootstepsPartial sighting
within that time frame of that summer Pennsylvania EP 391

Sasquatch sighting in Pennsylvania (1973)

An elderly couple walking their dog in nearby woods reported being chased off by large ape-like animals. Police responding to the call found large footprints. An anthropologist from a local college made a cast that was shown on the local evening news as a possible sasquatch footprint.

Partial sightingTracks
circa nineteen seventy three summer thereof Indiana, Pennsylvania EP 391

Sasquatch sighting near Indiana, Pennsylvania (1973)

The witness, age about nine, was camping with two cousins and his older brother in a field on his aunt's farm. Pre-dawn he heard rustling through tall grass and brush, then saw a giant hairy arm with a huge hand reach through a mesh opening at the top of the tent. His young cousin gasped, the arm withdrew, they heard it retreat, and in daylight they found a wide path pressed through the grass to the thicket.

Partial sightingMovement onlyTracks