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1970 Oregon EP 714

Footsteps in Oregon (1970)

The witness was camping with family at a remote lake where they were the only campers. At night something walked beside the small tent and the witness hit something solid through the tent wall. The sibling looked out, screamed, and reported a man-like figure standing by the fire described as wearing a fur suit.

FootstepsPartial sighting
1970–1979 Gorham, Illinois EP 660

Sasquatch sighting near Gorham, Illinois (1970)

Years ago a woman driving home from a night shift saw a large furry bipedal animal walking along the road near Gorham. Her son later found a line of tracks at the spot and made a plaster cast. The cast remains with the family and was shown at a local festival.

Full-body sightingTracks
1970–1979 Aberdeen, Washington EP 653

Sasquatch sighting near Aberdeen, Washington (1970)

The guest's grandmother said she and her husband were driving past a meadow near Aberdeen when a long-haired hairy human-like figure with long arms walked through the opening swaying its arms. She was too stunned to speak until they passed it, and it was gone when they backed up. Locals and loggers reportedly said they had seen it before.

Full-body sighting
1970–1971 Spokane, Washington EP 637

Sasquatch sighting near Spokane, Washington (1970)

The witness said he suggested using female gorilla blood samples to draw wildlife and joined a small team including an anthropologist near Spokane for several days. From camouflaged positions in trees they watched an upright, over-eight-foot figure approach the bait, smell it twice, and leave silently with a strong wet odor. Footprints were cast and kept by the anthropologist.

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1970–1979 Place not stated EP 622

Dogman sighting (1970)

In the 1970s near Don Williams, the commenter's uncle and companions reported seeing a very large animal resembling a cross between a hyena and something else. The guest initially doubted the story.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Place not stated EP 614

Sasquatch sighting (1970)

The guest recounts research indicating that in the 1970s a family or couple driving on a highway toward Chicago saw a Bigfoot standing off at a distance. The area is described as very flat cornfield with a strip of trees connected to a park. A highway mile marker was said to narrow the location to about a five-mile radius.

Full-body sighting
1970–1973 El Dorado, Arkansas EP 596

Silhouette near El Dorado, Arkansas (1970)

As a small child visiting her grandparents, the witness was carried and run back to the house by her aunt after something approached through the garden, and she saw a large dark shape holding in the tree line.

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1970–1979 Washington EP 604

Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1970)

Officers chased a suspect who turned off headlights on a reservation road. One officer followed crashing sounds into muddy swamp brush thinking it was the suspect. The figure stood from the water, raised its arms with water dripping from long underarm hair, then walked away while the officer screamed for others.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Floyd County, Indiana EP 590

Sasquatch sighting near Floyd County (1970)

At age ten the witness was in a tree in the back field while her father worked nearby. She watched what looked like a calf under a cow that then stood on two legs, revealing a tall thin black figure that looked at her father before walking away. Her father told her to get down and later told her not to talk about such things outside the home.

Full-body sighting
1970–1974 Garfield County, Oklahoma EP 556

Sasquatch sighting near Garfield County (1970)

When the woman was a little girl she walked on train tracks near dark in Garfield County. She looked back and saw a large sasquatch outline following her. Each time she looked it darted to the tree line but continued following until she reached her destination.

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1970–1979 Place not stated EP 554

Paranormal encounter (1970)

While camped for months in the desert under the Superstition Mountains, the witness's family saw a tan figure standing on its hind legs on a hill like a human yet animal-like. The father chased, shot, skinned and cooked it, after which the witness became violently ill and the father changed behavior. Hours later a sudden monsoon with no warning destroyed their camp.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 East Palestine, Ohio EP 554

Sasquatch sighting near East Palestine, Ohio (1970)

The witness and four cousins were playing tag at night at their grandmother's trailer by a cornfield in bright moonlight. Two younger cousins ran screaming from behind the trailer, followed by a very tall dark figure that ran past the witness in a few long strides into the cornfield. The group fled into the trailer and the grandmother then told them of prior activity on the same property.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Inchelium, Washington EP 513

Sasquatch sighting near Inchelium, Washington (1970)

Relayed from a tribal member, a roughly fifteen-foot Bigfoot was encountered in the Inchelium area in the 1970s, so overwhelming the hunter stopped hunting that valley.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Silverton, Oregon EP 512

Paranormal encounter near Silverton, Oregon (1970)

The older man and his friends reportedly watched a portal open over a forested valley. A green human-shaped figure made of light came out and sprinted rapidly toward their right into the forest. The teller said he did not know what to make of it.

Full-body sighting
1970–1974 Washington EP 480

Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1970)

The guest's stepbrother [name withheld] was riding at night with his father over Satus Pass from Yakima toward Portland. Something large on two legs crossed the road in front of them. Details beyond that are minimal.

Road crossing
1970–1974 Oregon EP 480

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1970)

An acquaintance of a friend was driving along the Siletz River road on the Oregon Coast. A tall black figure crossed the road in front of the vehicle in a few steps.

Road crossing
One summer, in the nineteen seventies Santa Cruz, California EP 449

Sasquatch sighting near Santa Cruz, California (1970)

A group of hippie kids and a church family at a river swimming hole watched rocks fly from the trees and felt the mountainside shake toward them. A nine-foot hairy biped jumped into the five-foot hole, mostly staying dry, then roared. The witnesses fled and the hole was closed for the summer.

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1970–1979 Lake County, Oregon #265

Sycan Marsh - Man shoots at 'eyes', 7' Bigfoot stands up screaming

Two people were driving at night spotlighting animals when they noticed large widely spaced eyes low to the ground. After a shot was fired toward the eyes, a tall figure stood from behind bushes, shook vegetation violently and screamed. The pair fled in their truck.

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1970–1974 Conroe, Texas EP 397

UFO sighting near Conroe, Texas (1970)

The witness's father and a fishing partner were driving home towing boats through Conroe after a tournament after dark. They stopped to look at what they thought was a forest fire in the woods. After watching a few minutes, a saucer-shaped object rose to treetop level and vanished in a second.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Clare, Michigan EP 391

Sasquatch sighting near Clare, Michigan (1970)

Three siblings walking up a long rural driveway on a bitterly cold morning to catch the bus saw motion across a frost-covered field. What first looked like a frost-covered deer sitting up proved bulkier, with brown hair under frost, bent legs and long arms pushing off knuckles like a gorilla. It lunged sideways into a ditch with tall grass and scrub. They nicknamed it the frost gorilla.

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