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Young man has strange encounter on a dark gravel road at Big Bear Lake Resort
The witness walked alone at night up a gravel mountain road toward a cabin after retrieving a wallet in town. Something unseen below the road in steep brush kept pace, breaking branches and dislodging rocks, stopping when the witness stopped and moving faster after rocks were tossed at it. Before reaching a bend where the road met the canyon, relatives arrived by car and the witness got in and left.
Teen has daytime sighting near Myers Flat
The witness was hunting with two friends and hid alone in berry bushes to startle them. While waiting, the witness smelled a strong odor and saw a large hairy biped stand up nearby and walk away through thick brush, hearing snapping and leaf crunch as it left. The witness ran to the friends and later returned with them to find a squatted feeding spot and small broken trees.
Scream near Hernando City, Florida (1963)
In April 1963 while camping with a companion, the witness heard footsteps around camp and a loud terrifying scream or howl before footsteps ran away.
Large prints found below Cold Springs
On a Sunday night, repeated shrieks were heard in brushland where a roughly 10-foot-tall grotesque man-like figure was reported. Large prints measuring about 14 to 17 inches were found nearby over the next two days and were followed through a subdivision, park and camp area. A law enforcement leader later described the tracks as shoe prints made before a light snowfall and suggested a mountain lion as a possible source of the noises, while noting fresh lion tracks and no cabin break-ins.
Man recalls early morning childhood sighting of creature outside of his home.
On a hot summer night in 1963, the witness awoke in bed to a strong foul odor and saw a large hairy figure filling the bedroom window. The figure swayed and moved forward and back while producing low guttural growls, appearing backlit and taller than the window, with a conical head, no neck, and hair on its arms. The frightened witness alerted parents who found nothing but remarked on the smell, while the family dog barked and whined in the barn.
UFO sighting near Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania (1963)
The witness was awakened in the family bedroom by noise and flashing lights. The witness went to the window and saw a gray alien face staring back, then lost consciousness. The witness later awoke coming down the hallway with missing time and told a parent about the experience.
Large bipedal creature passes child's window near Ft.Myers
At around 10 p.m. in 1963, the witness was lying in bed trying to sleep when heavy footsteps passed the bedroom window. The witness saw a huge shadow moving bipedally with a human-like walk, described as taller than a man, then heard a loud low-pitched moan. Frightened, the witness ran to the parents' bedroom sobbing and shaking.
Boy Scouts have sighting while camping at Quednau Ranch
The witness was on a Boy Scout campout in the Murdoch area near Tampa. On the second night after midnight during an initiation outing with another scout, they saw a very large figure running bipedally into the woods at high speed while giving a high-pitched scream or shriek. A strange smell was noted but was attributed at the time to sulphur water. The troop reportedly never returned to the area to camp.
Man recalls multi-witness sighting in teen years near Manistique
Six youths walking along railroad tracks heard a loud guttural sound behind them and turned to see a tall hair-covered figure. The figure walked steadily across the tracks and down into swampy woods about 110 feet away without stopping. The group later went to where it entered the woods, noticed a strong rotten odor but found no tracks.
Sasquatch sighting near Crandon, Wisconsin (1962)
At age 12 the guest and her older cousin went into thick woods near the family lake cabin to pick raspberries and became lost after filling buckets. While arguing about the way out, the guest saw a tall, lean, hairy man-like figure at very close range that studied her, moved its mouth, and held its hands out before looking toward the cousin. The figure then disappeared quickly, and the two children dumped their berries and ran out via a logging road to the grandmother's house, keeping the incident secret for years.
Hunters have unusual late night experience near Willow Creek
Two companions camped under a large pine beside a mountain dirt road after their car slid near snow. After dark in the tent they heard grunts, loud breathing and bark crunching as something large circled the tent on two feet. After firing shots from the tent and finding nothing outside, they later heard a long loud high-pitched scream some distance away, then slept until morning and found no footprints in the bark.
Man recalls a possible up-close nighttime encounter on Gilchrist Island
Late at night while returning to his Boy Scout camp on an island, the witness took a shortcut through a clearing and approached what he thought was a stump to about six feet away. The shape stood on two legs revealing a broad, hair-covered bipedal figure that stared at him briefly before walking then running away through palmettos with loud crashing footsteps. He returned to camp frightened and was told by the adult leader to go back to sleep.
UFO sighting near Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1961)
A couple driving south through New Hampshire late at night noticed strange lights that did not look like a jet. The lights approached the road, they heard a buzzing sound, and then experienced missing time before finding themselves displaced in their car.
Sasquatch sighting in Quebec (1960)
The witness's father, a French-Canadian long-haul trucker, was sleeping in his truck bunk in Quebec when footsteps circled the truck and the passenger doorknob was tried. He turned on headlights to see a fur-covered man-like figure wearing a jacket whose eyes reflected, which dropped to all fours and ran into the forest after he blew the horn.
Scream in Texas (1960)
The guest relayed what an elderly neighbor woman told him. She and her late husband moved there in the 1960s and heard weird noises from the woods. After he died she continued hearing yells, screams like a woman screaming and other sounds, and is rarely at the house around sundown. She said she believes something is out there.
Sasquatch sighting near Dayton, Tennessee (1960)
Later the family sat inside listening to records when they heard a noise at the window and saw a figure peering in. It was described as monkey-like with a wide nose, glowing red eyes, growling and raspy breathing. Armed family members went outside to confront it but it had vanished.
Footsteps near Dayton, Tennessee (1960)
Family members returning home at night along a dark gravel road heard something moving on the hillside and saw small stones rolling down as it kept pace. The presence mirrored their movements, walking when they walked and running when they ran, then chased them to the house. They barricaded the door with a stove while the handle shook as the creature tried to get in.
Vocalization in Texas (1960)
The guest retells what an elderly neighbor woman told him. She and her late husband moved there in the 1960s and heard odd woods noises for years. After he died she heard more yells, screams like a woman screaming, and other sounds, and she is rarely at the house after dark. She said she believes the guest's account.
Sasquatch sighting near Dayton, Tennessee (1960)
The guest recounts family activity from the 1960s at a rural hillside property reached by a dark tree-covered road. Family members were repeatedly followed by something that moved with them and shook the door after they barricaded it, and later saw glowing eyes looking through a window. Hogs went missing until a stakeout saw a gorilla-like figure carry one away, and a rider's horse once jumped over a sleeping hairy figure in a field.
Sasquatch sighting (1960)
A person fishing at dusk heard splashing near a bridge and saw something crouched in the creek that disappeared after the person stumbled.