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1970–1974 Texas EP 874

Unidentified sound in Texas (1970)

As a child playing outside on family land in Texas, the witness heard prolonged hammering from the woods. Her aunt called her inside warning about wood bogers, and her father later refused to explain the term. Years later she wondered if the sound was related to Sasquatch activity.

Unidentified sound
1970–1974 Oscoda, Michigan EP 823

Unidentified sound near Oscoda, Michigan (1970)

While staying at the family cottage, the young witness was playing outside at night near a neighboring cottage where distant relatives had died. He repeatedly heard strange sounds, once hearing something like a person in pain and asking his father if he heard it, but the father did not acknowledge it. The witness did not know if it was connected to the earlier Bigfoot sighting.

Unidentified sound
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
1970–1973 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.

SilhouetteFootsteps
1970–1989 Washington EP 534

Movement only in Washington (1970)

The caller's father and uncle were hunting when they split up. The father heard crashing in water and saw movement fleeing uphill as his uncle shouted to leave. Following footprints and fur back to camp, they found coolers overturned and later heard loud bone-chilling screams.

Movement onlyTracksScreamProperty disturbance
1970–1974 Oklahoma EP 475

Scream in Oklahoma (1970)

The witness's parents and sister were camped at McGee Creek before the lake filled when something screamed near camp. The sister ran into the tent and the family moved camp the next morning.

Scream
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.

Full-body sightingRock throwingScream
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.

EyeshineFull-body sightingScream
1970–1979 South Dakota EP 332

Footsteps in South Dakota (1970)

At age six or seven the witness slept alone in a tent about fifteen feet behind the cabin as a toughness challenge. Half asleep, the witness felt picked up in the sleeping bag and carried about seventy-five yards away from the cabin into the woods, realizing from the receding back light and long strides it was not a parent. After a deep grunt and another approaching, the carrier returned and placed the witness back in the tent, where the witness woke reversed and partly outside the tent.

FootstepsGrowlAnimal behaviourMovement only
1970–1979 Rainier, Oregon EP 295

Sasquatch sighting near Rainier, Oregon (1970)

The witness describes his family moving onto timber land in Rainier, Oregon and living there for about four years. During that time a group of four large hairy creatures repeatedly approached the trailers, looked in windows, pounded on walls, vocalized, left tracks and damaged property. Timber workers, well drillers and neighbors were also harassed, and the witness's sisters and mother eventually left for Washington because of fear.

Full-body sightingHowlVocalizationFootstepsTracks +2
1970–1974 Oklahoma EP 275

Scream in Oklahoma (1970)

The witness's parents and sister were camped at a creek before the lake filled. Something screamed near camp but did not enter camp. The sister ran into the tent and the group moved camp the next morning.

Scream
1970–1979 Bearbrook State Park Spands Allenstown & Deerfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire Class B #48354

Woman recalls scary night while at a Girl Scout campground in Bear Brook State Park

The witness was sleeping in a tent with other campers during a Girl Scout overnight stay when she was awakened by something pressing on the tent and making grunting sounds. After she scratched the tent fabric and made a loud sound herself, she felt something solid outside and heard a loud grunt or growl followed by crashing away through the underbrush. The other occupants screamed, camp leaders said everyone was accounted for, and an unrecognized funky odor was noticed.

GrowlFootstepsOdorProperty disturbance
Summer 1970 Cazenovia, Madison County, New York Class B #454

Man recalls incident as a child in a swampy area near Cazenovia

When the witness was a young child, the witness and a companion were chopping a rotted fallen tree with hammers far out in a swamp. After hearing a loud noise described as like a scream, they saw a very large dark man-like form walking very near them. Both children dropped everything and ran home without looking back.

Partial sightingScream
1970–1979 Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia Related account #2786

Unidentified sound near Milton, West Virginia (1970)

A relative and companion reportedly saw a gray hairy bipedal creature drinking at the creek and running up the hollow in the late 1970s.

Unidentified soundFull-body sighting
1970–1979 Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana Class A #1459

Witness looked up into the eyes of Bigfoot

The witness was playing outside at night by the driveway next to the woods and walked toward a streetlight when a tall hairy figure was standing directly in front. The witness looked up at its face and eyes while it looked down without expression, then ran inside to tell parents who dismissed it. A few minutes later a relative and a friend ran inside saying they heard someone walking in the woods.

Full-body sightingFootsteps
1970–1979 Tull, Saline County, Arkansas Class B #4095

Surprise observation by two hunters on the opposite bank of the river

Two relatives were hunting near a river and stopped at the edge to drink when they heard brush noises from across the water. A large brown figure emerged from the brush, moved downshore and crossed to their side while running on two legs. They then crossed to the other side and headed back upstream toward their trucks without further strange encounters.

Full-body sightingUnidentified sound
1970 Florida EP 510

Sasquatch sighting in Florida (1970)

As a small child sleeping in an isolated Florida ranch house on a bright summer night, the guest was awakened by livestock panic followed by silence and approaching footsteps. A massive dark form filled the bedroom window and seemed to look down at him while breathing heavily, terrifying him so badly he tried to hide under the mattress. He later identified the hairy arm seen in a movie as matching what was at his window.

Partial sightingFootsteps
1970 Grantsville, Calhoun County, West Virginia EP 510

Sasquatch sighting near Grantsville, West Virginia (1970)

The guest and his younger brother were on summer vacation at their grandfather's hillside house in West Virginia. After the younger brother fled the back bedroom saying a hairy face had pushed through the unscreened window while sniffing the air, both boys ran outside and, in headlights reflected off the siding, watched a dark bipedal figure go down the rear embankment and crash through a dense briar thicket. The next morning their uncle turned pale when told and warned them to stay out of the back.

Partial sightingVocalizationFootstepsMovement only
1970–1974 Minnesota EP 471

Sasquatch sighting in Minnesota (1970)

The witness was deer hunting from a stand when chirping sounds approached through the woods. A large dark manlike figure stepped into a shooting lane about 30 feet away and looked around. After the witness called out, it stared at him and left in a few strides.

Full-body sightingVocalizationOdor
1970–1989 Lenexa, Kansas EP 422

Sasquatch sighting near Lenexa, Kansas (1970)

While throwing a football alone at night, the witness noticed a small head with pointed ears peeking from behind tall hedge bushes and threw the ball toward it after it repeatedly ducked. Later that same night while sleeping near a low bedroom window, a much larger hairy face appeared at the glass, made eye contact, shifted its eyes, wrinkled its brow and opened a wide mouth showing pointed teeth. The witness fled to a parent's room while heavy pacing was felt and heard around the house, then police were called but found nothing. The next morning the witness found large prints around windows and garden, recalled repeated early-morning howls, a growl with a branch breaking, grunting in the basement and a violently shaking backyard tree.

Partial sightingFootstepsTracksHowlGrowl +2