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Two sisters have late-night sighting through bedroom window
The witness and her younger sister were talking in a dark bedroom late at night when they heard twigs crunching outside. Looking out the window in bright moonlight, they saw a very large hairy bipedal animal in the yard. Their grandfather came to the room, knocked out the window screen and fired a rifle at it. The animal bellowed, ran on two legs and stepped over a barbed-wire fence toward a creek, and no sign was found the next day.
Sasquatch sighting near Louisville, Kentucky (1960)
As teenagers, the witness and her boyfriend parked in a dirt cul-de-sac in a wooded park to spend time together. They heard heavy footsteps, snapping twigs and rustling circling them in the dark but could see nothing. When they drove away, the witness looked back and saw a tall, broad, long-armed silhouette step into the light under a street lamp, prompting them to flee. She later heard that a woman's mutilated body was found in the park, after which the park was placed under a nighttime curfew.
Cryptid sighting (1960)
A family bought an old homestead where the son repeatedly said little people bothered him in the forest, horses refused the barn, and the barn smelled foul. One evening during dinner the son pointed to a bay window and the father saw a three-foot-tall hairy human-like being by an outdoor spigot apparently chattering to others below. It made eye contact, widened its eyes, leaned back, and dropped from view. The father later found a rock-covered hole in the barn opening to caverns with strong odor, and a neighbor warned that dwarves lived under the old ruined house.
Object throwing (1960)
Two brothers camping by a river had a rock twice the size of a softball land by their fire where no such rocks occur. Their large dogs growled and clung to them and would not chase. As they walked to the house, they heard something walking in brush alongside them, stopping when they stopped, across a railroad track and fields to the yard light.
S of Tenmile near Roseburg - Black BF chased boys along ridge
Two boys were chased uphill and along a ridge by a large black apelike entity that seemed to herd them rather than catch them. The older boy shot it multiple times, causing it to slump to its knuckles twice, but it kept advancing while screaming loudly. The boys fled without seeing when it stopped, and tracks and a large odorous bed were later found.
Hunters Have Unusual Night Time Encounter
While deer hunting and camped overnight, the witness and a companion heard a very loud yelling-like scream from nearby woods and followed the companion's dogs with rifles. In a flashlight beam they saw a bipedal figure handling the dogs, throwing one, which then turned toward them and fled into trees with crashing brush and a lingering odor. They left the area that night and heard the vocalization again from farther off while packing.
Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque
In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.
Sasquatch sighting near Ocean Shores, Washington (1959)
At age six the witness was picking blackberries behind a vacation duplex when a hair-covered being on the other side of the patch repeatedly pulled vines down. They touched hands, the witness saw its face and spoke to it, and the two exchanged berries. A dog rushed in barking, the being broke off a branch, left down a trail, and later footprints were found and the dropped berry bucket had been picked up.
Sasquatch sighting in Tennessee (1959)
The guest relayed an older brother's account from years earlier of walking back from a store when a hairy man stepped out of the woods. The figure stopped in front of him, looked him over, grunted, and continued into the woods. The brother reportedly told the story for the rest of his life.
Sasquatch sighting near Lake County (1958)
Three youths working overnight irrigation in a walnut orchard spotted someone walking among the trees and chased it in a pickup. They intercepted a tall, heavy, hair-covered biped at close range that grinned without showing teeth and continued uphill without slowing. It crossed roads, ran through a neighboring orchard at high speed, and pushed through tall brush at the tree line where they lost it.
Sasquatch sighting near Lake County (1958)
The witness and two young companions were driving through the family walnut orchard after moving irrigation pipe when they spotted someone walking among the trees. They paralleled the figure in their pickup as it ran uphill through muddy and cultivated ground. It emerged from the trees close to the road, looked toward them and grinned, then continued over the hill, crossed a road in front of them, ran between neighboring barns and disappeared into tall brush.
Sasquatch sighting near Lake County (1958)
The witness, then a teenager, was riding with his brother and a friend in an old pickup checking irrigation on his father's walnut ranch when they spotted a tall hairy biped moving through the orchard. They chased it by farm roads as it ran uphill diagonally across a 40-acre block, stopped to watch it pass close by, then followed it across more blocks until it crossed a road and disappeared into dense brush on a neighboring property. Afterwards they inspected its long strides in wet ground and decided not to tell his father for fear of losing their irrigation job.
Man describes possible sighting during childhood in Hinkley Basin
Two boys were riding bicycles down an old fire road when the witness slowed for mud and saw a dark brown man-shaped figure step from behind a redwood. The figure ran down a steep slope toward a creek while the witness heard two-footed steps on leaves for about two minutes. A companion riding behind also glimpsed the figure.
Sasquatch sighting near Union Valley, Texas (1958)
In 1958 the guest's father and his brother-in-law were driving home after hauling hay when they passed a big white hairy creature standing and yelling by an old house and corral. They turned around twice to look again, seeing it shaking its hands up and down with long hair on its arms and body, before it was gone on the third pass.
Man tells of being followed by Bigfoot in the woods at night.
The witness was walking home at night after gigging frogs near a lake when hearing heavy footsteps and smelling a strong foul odor. A tall reddish-haired ape-like male figure about eight feet tall stepped from behind a tree about ten feet away and watched silently for about two minutes. The witness moved quickly toward a relative's house, saw the figure following up a hill, then ran to the house. The figure stopped at a barbed-wire fence about 30 yards away where the witness and three relatives watched it for about 20 minutes before it turned and walked silently back toward the lake.
Sasquatch sighting in North Carolina (1957)
The witness, then about 12, was hunting squirrels alone in the woods behind his childhood home. After crossing a creek bridge into thick regrowth he heard rhythmic leaf-rustling and pushed through brush to within a few feet of a very large cinnamon-brown hairy animal lying flat asleep. He watched its breathing move leaves, could see only its back with legs tucked under, then backed out fearing it was a bull and told no one for decades.
Woman recalls an encounter as a child, in an alley in the town of Valentine
Two children playing hide-and-seek ran into an alley and came face to face with a tall, dark-haired bipedal animal about fifteen feet away walking toward them. The animal screamed loudly without slowing or changing direction, prompting the children to scream and run home. They were not pursued and did not encounter it again.
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.
Personal encounter of a camper as well as a history of encounters concerning his family members, dating back 40 years.
The witness and a companion were sleeping in a tent on a hill while camping. In the early morning hours the witness was awakened by a deep growling grunt very close to the tent, followed by brush sounds as something moved away. In the morning the witness searched for tracks, fur, or other sign but found nothing, and concluded the sounds had been made by a bigfoot.
Man recalls close encounter at dusk as a youth near Macon
The witness and a companion were walking home from a creek at dusk when they heard loud approaching footsteps and movement through pines. A large hairy bipedal creature emerged on their side of a gully and jogged toward them on the path. After watching for a few seconds, the two fled to the nearby house.