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Memory told of encounter at a remote cabin at Sandy Run
The main witness was sleeping in the front room of a remote lakeside cabin with a relative when she awoke at night to the porch screen door opening and footsteps. She watched a large, red-haired, bipedal figure pass three front windows and pause at the door to peer inside, bending down to look in. Frightened, she fled to sleep with her grandparents and did not speak of the incident for years.
Sasquatch sighting in Manitoba (1940)
An elderly mail carrier told the witness he was returning by horse and buggy from a dam community in the 1940s when a tall hair-covered wild man came from the bush screaming. His horse bolted and the creature ran alongside the wagon. He said he kept his head down and pretended not to see or hear it, which he believed saved him.
Full-body sighting near Jefferson, Wisconsin (1936)
In 1936 a night watchman found a strange creature digging in a burial mound. It stood on its hind legs and ran off. On a second night it stood again and uttered syllables sounding like Gadara before running off. He told only his wife, then his son when he thought he was dying.
Vocalization (1934)
The teller's grandfather was riding a mule at night in 1934 while courting his future wife. Something in the woods startled or spoke to the mule, causing it to bolt hard for the barn. The rider held on prone and crashed into the barn wall, destroying a candle lantern.
Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia (1934)
A woman washing clothes in a river in British Columbia heard a close buzzing like a hummingbird. She turned to see a Bigfoot nearby and covered her eyes, believing the sound aided hypnotism. The account is presented as a 1934 Canadian report.
Footsteps in [name withheld] (1930)
The guest's grandmother was walking the guest's father as a child to school before daylight along a dirt road bordered by a tall solid wood fence in the Big Thicket. Something large and heavy paced them on the other side of the fence, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. They turned back halfway and abandoned school that day to avoid meeting it where the fence ended.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1924)
Five miners in 1924 reported poltergeist-like activity around their mine and cabin, including voices, machinery sounds, an apported pencil and isolated footprints. After one miner reportedly shot a creature, several creatures allegedly attacked the cabin at night throwing rocks and trying to enter. Only left footprints were reported the next morning.
Albert Ostman account -- Multiple-day encounter with family of Sasquatches
A prospector camping alone in coastal mountains awoke at night to being carried inside his sleeping bag for hours to a small enclosed valley. There he encountered four hair-covered individuals described as a family group and was held for about six days living on remaining canned food. He gained favor with the younger ones using snuff and handmade utensils, then incapacitated the adult male with a large dose of snuff and escaped during the resulting commotion, hiking south to a logging camp for help.
Chatter (1924)
A man was reportedly held captive for six days in the early twentieth century in coastal Canada. During captivity he reported hearing the captors chattering amongst themselves back and forth. The account was later documented in a book by a well-known researcher.
Sasquatch sighting in British Columbia (1924)
The witness was prospecting and camping near the head of Toba Inlet when supplies were disturbed for three nights. He was then carried inside his sleeping bag for about three hours to an enclosed valley. There a family group of four hair-covered beings held him for six days, during which he shared small gifts and observed their behavior. He escaped after the adult male swallowed snuff and became ill, then hiked out to civilization.
Tracks in Washington (1922)
In the years before the cabin was built the group heard strange whistling between ridges and were ordered to carry guns away from camp. During the first mining year they found a very large track in sand near the creek. These signs preceded the later shootings and night attack.
Sasquatch sighting near Seattle, Washington (1914)
A laborer picking berries was attacked by a hairy giant called Bosco that clawed his throat and struck him with a 25-pound window weight. Witnesses, tracks, bitten trees, eaten dog remains, and asphalt footprints were reported. The creature was seen swimming, eating fish, and peering into buildings.
Sasquatch sighting near Verona, Pennsylvania (1907)
A late pedestrian encountered a white-haired apparition that shrieked, dropped to all fours, clawed the sidewalk, and launched at him. He fled crying to a sheltering doorway while the pursuer passed on and vanished between houses. Neighbors reported being kept awake by weird cries.
Sasquatch sighting near Sixes, Oregon (1904)
In 1904 near Sixes miners reported a wild man seen three times in three weeks. Two men heard something walk around and shake their cabin corner, heard a frightful noise, saw it walk away, shot and missed. Later a similar visit at dawn ended with the creature hurling a four-pound rock after being shot at.
Sasquatch sighting near Roseburg, Oregon (1904)
Miners reported a seven-foot hairy wild man repeatedly shaking cabins at night and making frightful noise. Shots failed to stop it. On one morning it shook a door, was shot at, and retaliated by throwing a four-pound rock before vanishing.
Sasquatch sighting near Chesterfield, Idaho (1902)
A group of youngsters skating on a river encountered an 8-foot hair-covered creature that yelled and brandished a large club. They fled on skates to their wagons and escaped. Tracks found later away from the river were 22 inches long with four toes.
Sasquatch sighting near Winstead, Connecticut (1895)
A town selectman chasing a lost hog stopped in a clearing to pick blackberries. He saw a naked, hair-covered figure weighing about 180 pounds. The figure noticed him, made an unfamiliar sound, bounded over bushes, and disappeared.
Sasquatch sighting in Pennsylvania (1891)
Members of a berry-picking party heard a peculiar noise above a ravine and saw a nearly nude long-haired being with uneven limbs hanging on a vine and swinging as if humming. Upon seeing them it leaped from tree to tree and vanished while chattering.
Vocalizations heard from creature seen by witness
A father and son were returning from an unsuccessful hunting trip when the father stopped by a fallen tree to light his pipe and saw a tall hairy unclothed figure standing nearby. The figure vocalized loudly after noticing the man, then walked quickly toward the woods. The son joined his father and both watched the first figure and a second slightly smaller one walk along the woods edge before disappearing into the trees.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1884)
In 1884 a rural community living around Ocheesee Pond lost livestock and heard eerie nighttime calls from the water. After children were frightened by a hair-covered figure, residents formed a posse, captured it, and transported it chained to the governor in Tallahassee. The governor could not place it and sent it to the nearby Chattahoochee hospital, where it died and was buried under later construction.