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Rocks thrown at group of summer campers
The witness and about twenty other campers were sleeping on a beach during an overnight canoe trip to an island. After dark, rocks were repeatedly thrown hard and accurately at the group, continuing through the night until dawn and frightening many campers. The witness and a companion briefly saw a fleeting human-like figure running along the treeline toward the group before rejoining the others and sheltering behind driftwood.
Sighting by snowmobilers outside Castlegar
Near Christmas 1980 the witness was riding a snowmobile with a relative on a forest trail at night when they got stuck. Both smelled a strong rotten-meat odor and then the witness saw a fur-covered bipedal figure about six feet tall run across the trail into the bush. The witness found a large bare footprint where it crossed and bipedal steps through deep powder snow. A parent who arrived later saw the remaining marks and told the witness the figure was a sasquatch.
Motorists recount incident on the side of a highway near the BC-Alberta border
The witness and companions had pulled to the side of a road to sleep in their car late at night. After hearing a slap or thump on the roof, the witness looked out and saw a tall, hair-covered biped running across the road toward the woods, lit by passing headlights. The group then left to sleep at a truck stop instead.
Daylight sighting near Prince George
The witness was riding a motorcycle home from work in the early evening when he saw an animal standing in a ditch by a bend in the road. At first thinking it was a bear, he watched it step out and walk across the road in front of him before disappearing into brush. He described it as a large, muscular, hair-covered biped standing well over six feet tall that glanced at him as it crossed.
Boys see man-like creature splashing in water
The witness and a young relative were playing near water when they noticed a tall, black-haired, human-like figure squatting at the water's edge, apparently splashing. They shouted to it several times without response, after which it stood up and watched them. The pair fled to shore, looked back to see it still watching, then kept running.
Large, black creature seen running across road on two legs
More than a dozen people who were driving down a road claimed to see a large black creature. The creature reportedly ran across the road on two legs and continued down through the mountains. The report was relayed by someone who was not among the witnesses.
Sasquatch sighting near Port Alberni, British Columbia (1976)
A logger driving back toward the log landing in sun glare struck one of two hair-covered figures on the road. The struck creature fell into the ditch moaning while the larger one approached. Both then pounded the pickup, smashing the windshield before the driver fled. Managers later ordered the truck flattened and buried to conceal the incident.
Childhood Sighting Near a House in the Okanagan
Early one summer morning in 1974, the witness, then a child, looked out a bedroom window overlooking Okanagan Lake and saw a very tall, dark, thick-bodied figure standing by the house's sliding glass door. After standing motionless briefly, the figure turned and walked across the lawn into the orchard and out of sight. No one else in the house saw it.
Woman recalls multiple witness daylight sighting on Shawnigan Lake
Five girls were walking in the woods when they heard crashing from across a meadow and hid to watch. They observed a very tall, hairy bipedal figure with long arms approaching, noticing a foul smell. After one cousin made a noise, the figure was startled and walked back into the woods, and the girls ran home.
Two brothers see and verbally confront upright, walking, hairy creature
Two brothers on an early morning run outside town saw an upright, fully hairy creature cross the road onto a gravel road. After one shouted, the creature turned to face them in a brief standoff of about 45 seconds, then walked away around a bend. Minutes later they found large barefoot tracks in light snow and noted a slight lingering odor.
Motorist observes animal cross the road in front of him
The witness was driving at night with two companions when a large creature crossed the road in front of the vehicle from left to right, visible in the headlights for about six to eight seconds. The driver stopped at the crossing spot but the creature was gone and was not seen again. The witness described a tall greyish figure with very long arms, a thick torso and an apelike forehead that briefly turned its upper body toward the vehicle while walking.
Possible sighting around 2:00AM near Courtenay
The witness arrived home late at night under bright moonlight and saw a large dark form standing in a ditch behind a telephone pole across the road, watching. The witness pointed it out to a parent, who glanced toward it and hurried the family inside. The form remained motionless during the several minutes observed, and a next-day check found only muddy water in the about 2-foot-deep ditch.
Possible approach to a camp outside Penticton
The mother, sleeping with family in a tent trailer at a campground, was awake during the night while something was outside. In the morning the family found a cooler that had been tucked under the trailer dragged out, crushed, with food missing. The mother said she had seen its shadow on the tent wall and insisted it was neither a bear nor a man, remaining upset for most of the day.
Bear hunter sees bigfoot mating
The witness was on foot hunting bears near a small clearing when he spotted three brown hair-covered animals scuffling as they moved away. He hid behind a log and watched as two mated face-to-face on the ground while the third stood and moved nearby, then he fired a rifle shot that missed. The three animals then fled into the treeline running on two legs.
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.
Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia (1960)
A prospector in British Columbia in the 1960s saw a creature standing upright across a pond. It rocked back and forth with hands and arms swinging slowly. The witness emphasized the hands were as large as canoe paddles.
Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia (1960)
The guest recalls a 1960s report with an eyewitness drawing by a prospector in British Columbia. The creature was described as standing upright across a pond, rocking and swinging its arms, with hands noted as large as canoe paddles.
Cryptid sighting near Port McNeil, British Columbia (1958)
The guest says his father saw a double-headed sea serpent outside Port McNeil in 1958. He links it to the year of the record sockeye return on the British Columbia coast and to stories of a dinosaur-type Belle Isle Sound monster.
William Roe account -- Highway worker has lengthy sighting at close range & records much detail
The witness hiked to a deserted mine on a mountain in the afternoon and encountered an upright hair-covered female creature at close range. The creature approached, squatted to strip and eat leaves, noticed the witness, vocalized, and walked away into timber, later appearing briefly on a distant ridge. The witness considered shooting it for science but refrained, then examined droppings and a bedding spot.
Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia (1955)
A hunter watched a hair-covered female-like biped strip leaves and eat, approach within 20 feet, notice him, then walk away while making a half-laugh vocalization. He chose not to shoot and later examined feeding and sleeping signs.