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April 1982 Bagwell, Red River County, Texas Class A #4143

While searching for their uncle, two boys see a tall creature look at them, grunt and run off towards the woods

The witness and a companion entered a cleared pasture near dark to look for a relative and approached a figure they first mistook for the relative. From about fifty feet they realized it was a hairy biped about six and a half feet tall. The creature turned to look at them, grunted, then ran toward the woods and stepped over a fence as they screamed.

Full-body sightingVocalization
April 1982 Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California Class A #25444

High school teacher recalls a nighttime sighting while camping in the Los Padres National Forest

Four people camped by a river heard a loud crashing sound while eating dinner. They saw a large hairy biped running down a nearby trail illuminated by their campfire. After they yelled it glanced toward them, continued over a ridge and out of sight within seconds. They kept watch in shifts overnight and found no tracks the next morning.

Full-body sightingFootstepsMovement only
March 1982 Deersville, Harrison County, Ohio Class A #35079

Dairy worker describes 5am sighting between Tappan and Clendening Lake

Early one morning in March 1982 the witness was feeding young cattle in an outdoor pen on a dairy farm. After hearing a grunt, the witness saw a tall dark bipedal figure stand up near a hay feeder and then walk away toward the woods and over a fence. The witness heard crunching footsteps and fence noise for several seconds, then later found no tracks after the frost melted.

Full-body sightingVocalizationFootsteps
1982 Place not stated Related account #6194

Sasquatch sighting (1982)

The father reported encountering a tall brown hairy creature at close range years earlier after smelling a foul odor and hearing rustling.

Full-body sightingOdorUnidentified sound
1982–1983 Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/5fUeXNpIfrqNJVHWjBxh6RiUWIAdbUVxjKjtDtd0yg8

Sasquatch sighting near Tahlequah, Oklahoma (1982)

As children the witness and his older brother were playing near an old cabin on their grandfather's property overlooking the river. The brother pointed out a large hair-covered figure standing by the water about 100 yards away. When the witness shouted, the figure turned, screamed loudly, and ran quickly along the tree line and disappeared. A neighbor rushed the boys inside, and the grandfather spoke with the neighbor in another language and kept the boys from returning to the river, saying the beings were passing through.

Full-body sightingScreamAnimal behaviour
1982–1983 Osage Beach, Missouri #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/lNS7OzLHAmwyeK_VKmSh_i-E7qEgjCUwSLRJGTaob0Q

Rock throwing near Osage Beach, Missouri (1982)

The guest and friends stayed midweek at a remote cabin near Osage Beach in August. At night the group had wood chunks and pebbles thrown at them and heard loud whooping, and companions heard splashing while night fishing. The next morning companions reported a hairy bear-like figure by fish guts, the woodpile was toppled, and a beaver dam was found destroyed with a pulled-apart carcass. While squirrel hunting along the creek the guest and his companion watched a five-foot ape-like creature wading and looking in the water, which approached his companion then left after clicking sounds were exchanged with another unseen individual.

Rock throwingObject throwingWhoopFootstepsFull-body sighting +3
1982–1983 Minnesota #0e4939bb-283b-4433-bb60-7a871a2483da

Sasquatch sighting in Minnesota (1982)

The witness had left a pack with clothes and snacks at his deer stand the day before opening weekend and had noticed snacks missing in prior years. Approaching the stand over a ridge, he heard banging and watched a small ape-like juvenile jumping on the stand, swinging from a branch and climbing the ladder for several minutes. When it noticed him it made a low distress call, followed by an extremely loud roar from a wooded island about 100 yards away that he felt in his chest. He fled immediately and returned about a week later to find the stand torn down and the pack and contents shredded over a wide area.

Full-body sightingVocalizationProperty disturbanceAnimal behaviour
1982 Warm Springs, Nye County, Nevada #709fe89a-f8a4-48bd-a6d1-57a09af02d1d

UFO sighting near Warm Springs, Nevada (1982)

A family driving across Nevada early in the morning encountered a strange object that approached their station wagon and flew above the road. After a tire blowout, mist, humming and slowed perception, they stopped and hid in brush where a saucer landed and three floating beings took the two children aboard. The parents sought help at a military gate while the children were found the next morning on the test range and later described examinations, pills, a calming ribbon and a map.

Full-body sightingUnidentified sound
December 1981 Keechah, Louisiana #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/1Or-qQ_Ugt0QCuh9dcyAr9Ql1b0VbkXY5IwtVWQcxZI

Sasquatch sighting near Keechah, Louisiana (1981)

While deer hunting in the evening, the witness watched a doe press against the stand as if chased. A tall black hairy biped with a very human face appeared nearby, stared, roared, and exchanged whistles with another unseen individual. The witness fled to a truck, fired a warning shot that struck bark near its face, and saw a second creature on the logging road while driving away.

Full-body sightingVocalizationWhistle
October 1981 Pillowville-Christmasville Communities, Carroll County, Tennessee Class B #4381

Brief dusk sighting near Pillowville

The witness and a companion were walking along a road after sundown when the witness heard movement on an elevated fence row. The witness climbed up to look across a cut corn field and saw a tall slender brown shaggy figure walking along a ditch, which stepped into a ditch bank after being shouted at. They ran back to the companion's house, and the witness returned the next day to find large human-like footprints in lime dust.

Full-body sightingFootstepsTracks
October 1981 Louisiana #f03793c4-e1f8-439c-8dd5-4dc1ce4f1096

Vocalization in Louisiana (1981)

The witness went fishing before sunrise and heard a loud groan-growl from across the road that frightened him. After calming down elsewhere, he drove back, noticed paired trails in dew leading into oak woods, and followed them to a tree where a tall hair-covered biped stepped out. The two stared at each other, the creature appeared amused then agitated, building to a vocal display and urinating. Believing he was about to be killed, the witness fired a handgun into its chest at close range; the creature bled from the wound and mouth, stood, and climbed down a bluff toward water, after which the witness left and later found the road closed.

VocalizationGrowlFull-body sightingTracksAnimal behaviour
October 1981 Louisiana #9aa5cf45-fbfb-4853-83f2-c41e34a2f18d

Sasquatch sighting in Louisiana (1981)

The witness, then 18, had gone fishing at dawn near a lake and heard an unusually deep groan-growl from across the road. After driving away to calm down, he returned, parked, armed himself with a large-caliber pistol, and followed disturbed dew trails into oak woods. About six feet from an oak tree a tall hair-covered biped stepped out, exchanged prolonged looks, then appeared to work itself into an agitated vocalizing state while urinating. The witness fired at close range into its chest, saw heavy bleeding from the wound and mouth, and watched it clutch its chest, stand, and disappear over a bluff toward the water.

Full-body sightingGrowlVocalizationTracksAnimal behaviour
September 1981 Yale, St. Clair County, Michigan Class A #821

a family reports repeated encounters on their farm. (From newspaper articles.)

Two young family members went to the barn after dark to check animals and one touched fur in the dark and then saw a tall furry biped with red eyes. The creature followed as they left the barn without harming them. An older relative then confronted it with a shotgun, fired in the air, and it ran into the woods making a noise.

Full-body sightingEyeshineGrowlUnidentified soundAnimal behaviour
September 1981 Brinnon, Jefferson County, Washington Class A #941

Sighting by a hunter on the edge of a road

The witness was walking back to his camper after hunting when he heard heavy footsteps and waited on the road. An upright bear-like figure appeared in an opening, faced him and froze for a few seconds before turning and leaving silently. He later searched for tracks but found none due to hard ground, then returned with his wife to estimate its size.

Full-body sightingFootsteps
4 July 1981 HAYWARD WI, Sawyer County, Wisconsin Class A #23691

Man recalls encounter at a cabin on Nelson Lake

Late at night two boys inside a lake-front home noticed a shadow passing a high bedroom window and went outside with lights to check for an intruder. From a deck they heard a loud snap on a trail leading to the woods and saw a very tall, broad, black-haired upright creature run away and disappear. The next day a search found only a broken limb, and the witness later heard that nearby residents had also reported sounds, tracks and fence damage that night.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundOdor
9 May 1981 Sykesville, Maryland #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/03/03/show-notes-with-shannon-lon-strickler-and-sean-forker

Sasquatch sighting near Sykesville, Maryland (1981)

The witness was fly fishing alone in a river pool in the morning when a dog on the far bank began barking. A tall dark-haired biped stood up from the brush, was observed walking through the thicket, then left for the woods. The witness reported the sighting, returned to find police blocking the road, and later saw a large search with vehicles and helicopters but never received follow-up.

Full-body sightingVocalization
Spring 1981 Sykesville, Maryland, Carroll Co., Carroll County, Maryland Class A #231

Man witness confrontation between bigfoot and stray dog, near Sykesville

The witness was fishing on the north bank of a river when a dog on the south bank barked at brush and confronted an upright, hair-covered animal. The animal knocked the dog down, emitted a ticking sound and a musky odor, then walked into the woods where the witness lost sight of it while wearing waders. The witness later found the dog with blood on it and reported seeing a taped-off police search at the site.

Full-body sightingVocalizationOdor
1981–1982 Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/02/24/sc-ep18-sasquatch-stories-with-jim-grant-aka-bear

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1981)

The witness crawled through a cane thicket to inspect an oak tree for a deer stand and found a large hairy creature sleeping. It woke, stood, paced and vocalized, then bluff-charged to within a few yards before veering off and crashing through the thicket. The witness kept his rifle ready, backed out scratched by briars, and was followed by screaming until he reached his truck and drove home.

Full-body sightingVocalizationScream
1981–1982 Greene County, Pennsylvania #31526f64-b5d1-411c-a23b-6b18348a195f

Sasquatch sighting near Greene County (1981)

The witness and his friend camped and fished over a weekend at a remote creek below a ridge road. They experienced pebbles and rocks thrown, pacing, huffing, wood knocks, a disturbed fire pit and scattered poles. A large creature then came down the ridge into the creek, growled at them from about 20 yards, and left. A DNR officer later found prints, cast them, and called them bear tracks.

Full-body sightingGrowlRock throwingWood knockFootsteps +2
1981 Louisiana #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/RsyXRPunfx7DktDqTBta7_58n7fE3JARvOCpjCzJcwo

Sasquatch sighting in Louisiana (1981)

The witness arrived late for an evening deer hunt and climbed a stand. A doe bedded under the stand, then a tall black creature jumped about 20 feet between trees and stared with intense eye contact. After he aimed his scoped rifle it growled, beat a tree, exchanged whistles with another unseen mover, and he fled half a mile to his truck. He fired a warning shot, drove away as a hand reached for the tailgate, and saw a second creature in the mirror.

Full-body sightingGrowlWhistleFootstepsMovement only