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1973–1975 Cotton, Cooper County, Missouri Class A #44283

Family members describe screaming and house smacking near Prairie Home

Five women staying overnight at a rural farmhouse heard loud piercing screams approaching from up a hill toward the house. A backlit tall, large-framed figure walking hunched over passed in front of the front picture windows and beat on the house, and a very hairy leg was seen when the front door was opened. The figure then went around the corner of the house and disappeared, leaving a burning skunk-like smell. Two men who had been away returned later and searched the large farm into the early morning without finding anything.

ScreamSilhouettePartial sightingDoor or window contactOdor
15 July 1972 Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri Class A #1136

Creature seen stepping over four foot barbed wire fence near the town of Louisiana

The witness was walking alone east along a rural road at dusk when a strong foul odor appeared and a tall figure was seen at the edge of a pasture. The figure watched the witness, matched movements, and approached, then chased the witness who fled to a farmhouse porch. The creature eventually left toward the pasture with farm dogs chasing it, and the witness hid until a companion arrived.

Full-body sightingOdorScream
17 November 1971 Salem, Dent County, Missouri Class A #36761

Memory told of a close encounter while deer hunting east of Salem

While hunting from a tree stand shortly after sunrise, the witness saw a frightened deer run by followed by two upright hairy figures. One figure came within about 15-20 feet, stared face-to-face at eye level for 10-15 seconds and emitted a deep growl before leaving. The witness fled toward a nearby farmhouse, fired a rifle shot overhead and shouted, while movement and noise paralleled him in the woods.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingGrowlMovement only
June 1971 Alton, Oregon County, Missouri Class A #1120

Sasquatch encountered standing by porch

The witness had been asleep at home when his wife woke him after hearing a strange growling sound close to the house. He looked out the bedroom window in bright moonlight and saw a hair-covered creature with a humanlike face about 12 feet away that turned to stare toward him. He grabbed a shotgun and ran outside, but the yard was empty, so he fired into the air. The family dogs, missing for three days, returned the next day.

Partial sightingGrowl
Summer 1969 Scott City, Scott County, Missouri Class A #22448

Early morning sighting near Scott City Diversion Canal

When the witness was a child, he accompanied his grandfather to unlock gates and check boats at a remote fishing spot early one summer morning. After getting out of the truck, they saw a tall hair-covered figure standing on the far side of the lake near the dam about fifty yards away looking at them. The grandfather told the boy not to worry and turned him toward the boats, and when the boy looked again the figure was gone.

Full-body sighting
7 July 1967 Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri Class A #24404

Woman recalls a very close encounter as a child on a farm near the Mark Twain National Forest

The witness was walking home along a gravel road through a wooded hollow at dusk when a presence alongside proved to be a very tall, hairy creature standing within arm's reach. The witness looked up at its body and face, then walked slowly toward home while it remained nearby. At the home driveway the creature paused by a cedar tree, watched, then left into the forest in a few strides, after which the witness cried out and a relative searched the area.

Full-body sighting
1961–1962 Lake Of The Ozarks, Missouri #6245a062-2d7b-45ab-8ff8-0ceb3fd8d98e

Sasquatch sighting near Lake Of The Ozarks, Missouri (1961)

During a family stay at a remote lake cabin the witness's stringer of catfish was found cleaned and lined up. Exploring uphill along a stream he watched a small hairy human-like figure play in a dammed pool, smash crawdads together and eat them. When it beckoned him closer he backed away and returned to the cabin without telling anyone.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviourProperty disturbance
August 1960 Currotherville, Pemiscot County, Missouri Class A #15610

Children see creature emerging from abandoned barn near Caruthersville

The witness had recently moved into a farmhouse and was on the front porch in the morning with relatives when a large hair-covered creature emerged from a nearby barn. The creature stepped over a hog-pen fence and walked away to the west. Later that day the witness found large five-toed footprints near the barn, and the household heard loud banging and howling sounds around the property through the following winter and spring without seeing the creature again.

Full-body sightingTracks
October 1956 Washington County, Missouri Class A #1158

Child encounters a man-like creature in a shed

As a child the witness hid in an old corn crib during a hide-and-seek game near a relative's house at sundown. Inside the dark crib the witness heard heavy breathing and saw a huge hairy man-like creature standing over them staring, with a hog-pen-like smell. The witness ran back to the house crying and reported the encounter to a relative, who did not take it seriously.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundOdor
1932 ST.Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri Class B #24102

Recollections of numerous encounters at a logging camp during the Great Depression

The reporter recounts stories his parents told about a logging camp in the early 1930s shortly after their 1932 marriage. After an initial close approach to another woman in camp, a large hairy human-like creature was seen repeatedly in the evenings, at times leaning on a parked truck and running upright faster than dogs. The father prevented others from shooting it because it looked too human.

Full-body sighting
On September 3, 2011, at dusk Forsyth, Taney County, Missouri Related account #30442

Sasquatch sighting near Forsyth, Missouri

At dusk the witness watched a dark human-like form step out from behind a large tree into a slight clearing and retreat behind the tree while she was on her porch.

Full-body sighting
when I was a kid Missouri #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/01/sc-ep76-open-phone-lines-and-your-thoughts-1

Sasquatch sighting in Missouri

As a child fishing on his grandparents' property with a friend, the friend suddenly shouted he had seen a monkey's face in the bushes. When he looked back it was gone. The caller made fun of him at the time and only recalled it years later after hearing similar accounts.

Partial sighting
Date unknown Winona, Shannon County, Missouri Related account #56937

Sasquatch sighting near Winona, Missouri

Other residents reportedly saw two small upright monkey-like creatures near the main encounter location.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Missouri #e4e9138f-646f-4b8f-b6d8-4756bfdb5c66

Sasquatch sighting in Missouri

The investigator retells a second report from the same Missouri hunter who encountered a creature at close range while bow hunting from elevation near a pond. The two looked at each other and the hunter felt asked if he would shoot; he held his bow but did not shoot. The creature then turned and walked away without fear, and the hunter described its face as very human.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Missouri #e4e9138f-646f-4b8f-b6d8-4756bfdb5c66

Sasquatch sighting in Missouri

The investigator retells a hunter's report of a night when he, his uncle and son had hung deer and gut piles near camp. They saw silhouettes circling, heard banging on the camper, stick slapping and rock throwing as the visitors tried to get the meat. The men shouted from inside where their guns were stored until the visitors left.

SilhouetteRock throwingDoor or window contact
eight or nine years ago Missouri #e4e9138f-646f-4b8f-b6d8-4756bfdb5c66

Sasquatch sighting in Missouri

The guest says about eight or nine years before the show he was in the Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missouri. He saw two heat signatures about 150 to 200 feet away up a hill across tracks and a creek, one standing and one kneeling, watching the group. He says he snapped still photos with a unit that did not take video.

Full-body sighting
BFRO YEAR: app. 1985 Gainesville, Ozark County, Missouri Class A #5085

Family has nighttime sighting near Gainesville

The witness, then a child, was riding in the back of a car driven by a relative late at night when headlights revealed a tall hair-covered figure crossing in front of the vehicle. The figure continued across a creek, climbed into a yard, and walked uphill out of headlight range while the occupants watched from the car. After driving into the driveway and running inside, a relative briefly went out with a rifle and light before returning.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
BFRO YEAR: 1961 1962 Hornersville, Pemiscot County, Missouri Class A #26962

Childhood face to face encounter at dusk in the river bottoms of Bootheel

At dusk in fall, a child was playing in a field behind the house with a dog when the dog barked fearfully at weeds around an unused barn. A very tall, dark, hair-covered figure emerged chasing the dog and came within about 6-10 feet of the witness, who noted its huge hands with long fingers. The frightened witness ran about 30 yards to the house and told family members, who did not believe the account.

Full-body sighting
a few months later Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri Related account #65691

Sasquatch sighting near Charleston, Missouri

The witness and companions bowfishing at night saw an upright outline on the levee about 200 yards away watching them before it left.

Silhouette
BFRO YEAR: 2015-16 Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri Class A #65691

Three incidents in marshy zone outside Charleston next to Mississippi River

The witness and a companion were bowfishing at night at a pump station when they heard high-pitched sounds. A spotlight then revealed a tall hair-covered figure about 25 yards away at the treeline, gripping a limb and watching them for under a minute. The figure grunted loudly and walked away steadily while breaking limbs in its path, after which the two left terrified.

Full-body sightingVocalizationGrowlTree break