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July 1970 Tooele / Herriman, Salt Lake County, Utah Class B #38797

Woman recalls childhood experience of a terrifying night-time encounter while camping near Kennecott Copper mine

A family group of six was inside a large tent at night during a thunderstorm when they smelled an overpowering odor and heard loud screaming approach. A large hairy figure stood over the tent, visible in lightning flashes, screaming for several minutes while the occupants huddled in fear. An adult companion left the tent, apparently confronted the creature amid scuffling and growling, then returned pale and blocked the zipper until dawn when the group left.

OdorScreamGrowlPartial sightingSilhouette
1970–1979 Utah #9fe086a7-26f8-4a2e-8a0d-249644ae0b1b

Vocalization in Utah (1970)

The witness describes repeated nighttime experiences from childhood into late teens where he would fall asleep and wake up outside in a field without knowing how he got there. He recalls bruises, a sensation of being held, seeing his own body from above, a bright light in his face, feeling restrained, and hearing voices urging him to come outside. The episodes stopped after he left for college, with tapping on windows and scratching also reported.

VocalizationDoor or window contactFootstepsMovement only
Summer 1964 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Class B #28095

Man recalls possible encounter at a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon outside Salt Lake City

In August 1964 two teenagers were walking back to a family cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon after dark when they heard footsteps matching their movements and a low unearthly growl. They ran through a gully to the cabin and locked themselves inside. They then heard the nearby outhouse door open and slam, saw nothing when they turned on an outside light, later heard the door fling open with crashing in brush, and spent the night upstairs.

FootstepsGrowlDoor or window contactMovement only
years ago Utah #a7729d16-99c8-4f12-870c-c31ef9065932

Footsteps in Utah

The witness's male coworker said he was doing water testing and sleeping in a van with a trailer at a remote reservoir with a work partner. He awoke to fast approaching footsteps, then felt the van jerk up as something jumped on the trailer tongue and saw a shadowy face with dread-like hair look into the window. Both men immediately drove out through the locked gate and saw no one else.

FootstepsVehicle contactPartial sighting
a couple of weeks later Utah #a7729d16-99c8-4f12-870c-c31ef9065932

Unidentified sound in Utah

A couple of weeks after the camping trip the witness returned to the same general area with his brother to scout for hunting. While sitting near a small lake they repeatedly heard sounds of rocks or boulders being moved nearby every few minutes. They did not investigate and left without seeing what made the noise.

Unidentified soundPossible misidentification
Date unknown Utah #9fe086a7-26f8-4a2e-8a0d-249644ae0b1b

Tracks in Utah

While following a large bear track with an owner's hounds wearing GPS collars, the dogs bayed at the canyon bottom then went completely silent and could not be located. Months later the owner returned from another direction, recovered collars and smashed bones shoved under a large rock, suggesting the dogs were killed together.

TracksVocalization
Date unknown Utah #9fe086a7-26f8-4a2e-8a0d-249644ae0b1b

Scream in Utah

While staying in a trailer with two coworkers late at night, the witness and others heard a female voice crying for help and bare feet running toward them. Something hit the trailer wall and rattled the locked door while the voice continued, then walked away through the woods. Older campers nearby separately reported someone pulling on their tent that night.

ScreamFootstepsDoor or window contact
a couple of years later after first encounter Utah #ebc3b6f0-083a-405b-9698-424e91654384

Dogman sighting in Utah

The witness was night fishing with his brother and a friend when movement in dense cattails prompted him to throw concrete that struck something with a loud thud and exhale. They saw high amber-red eyeshine, then fled to their lifted pickup as a large snout-faced biped chased them. It reached toward the tailgate and kept pace on two and four legs for several hundred yards until they detoured around the lake to escape.

Full-body sightingEyeshineVocalizationVehicle contact
Last month Paiute County, Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/11/10/sc-ep60-bigfoot-charged-my-car

Whistle near Paiute County

The witness and a companion were hunting in a remote hard-to-reach area and gave whoops. They received a loud distinct whistle reply and later heard tree knocks. A distant dog barking and two distant whoops were captured on a recorder.

WhistleWood knockWhoop
20, 25 years ago Utah #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/hJA1VjGrpz3nurD-riiPpucW4OyxD4SpK99gttclG4I

Scream in Utah

The witness, working as a hunting guide in southeastern Utah, waited alone for deer in a canyon in the evening. He heard prolonged loud screaming that frightened two distant guides away. After dark with a dead flashlight, he hiked up the canyon trail toward the sound and faced a tall silhouette blocking the trail before it moved aside and let him pass.

ScreamSilhouetteMovement only
Date unknown Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/05/11/sc-ep323-one-of-them-threw-a-rock-at-me

Howl in Utah

The witness went with family at night to watch the ranch from a hill after getting directions at a gas station. They heard close coyotes, saw blue fog spread over the fields, later saw carousel-like lights in the sky and a fighter jet, and on roads nearby saw house dogs walking with a coyote. Security spotlight and guards chased them from the gate.

HowlAnimal behaviourMovement only
when I was about 17 Logan, Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/05/11/sc-ep323-one-of-them-threw-a-rock-at-me

Sasquatch sighting near Logan, Utah

The witness went with family at night to look for Bigfoot on a dirt road. He felt dread, shone a flashlight into a hillside and saw a pair of huge widely spaced amber eyes about fifteen feet away. After a slow blink and a powerful huff, the eyes vanished, shots were fired into the ground and the group ran to the car where a ranger warned of dangerous things.

EyeshineVocalizationMovement onlyPossible misidentification
Date unknown Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/03/12/sc-ep306-utah-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

Through a thermal camera the witness watched two figures crouching across a river for about twenty minutes. One stood, moved back about forty feet and crouched again while the larger belly-crawled behind a bush. A loud knock like a tree knock was heard without visible movement.

Partial sightingWood knock
Date unknown Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/03/12/sc-ep306-utah-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

Looking through a thermal camera the witness saw two figures on their bellies that rose to a crouch on their haunches on either side of a tree about two hundred feet away while knocks, whoops, whistles and rock clacking were heard. By the time he rigged his phone to record through the thermal they had dropped back down and the recording shows almost nothing.

Partial sightingWood knockWhoopWhistle
Date unknown Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/03/12/sc-ep306-utah-sasquatch

Whistle in Utah

After dark on top of a mountain the witness tried to descend switchbacks while his dogs kept running off toward whistling, branch-breaking and thrown objects. He felt three individuals flanking and closing in with stomping and an overwhelming sense of dread. He prepared to call his spouse to say goodbye and had no flashlight.

WhistleFootstepsTree breakObject throwing
Date unknown Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/03/12/sc-ep306-utah-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

Later the same day while on a road with his dog, the witness heard stomping, whooping and a stick break uphill. About thirty feet away a very small black child-like figure stood from behind a stick structure, squatted rapidly and flipped its head back and forth. It then threw its arm forward and dashed away.

Partial sightingWhoopFootstepsTree break
Date unknown Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/03/12/sc-ep306-utah-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

While filming in the woods the witness heard talking-like sounds and then saw part of a brown figure leaning from behind a large tree in daylight. He spoke to it trying to calm it, and it quieted briefly before breaking objects and other unseen individuals flanked him. He then left the area.

Partial sightingVocalizationTree break
about two years ago Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/09/25/sc-ep256-i-ran-so-far-away

Footsteps in Utah

The witness was camping with friends in a Utah canyon and became separated alone in the woods while playing a nighttime game. After hearing a grunt and a deep growl and seeing an arm wrap around a tree, he watched a tall, muscular, thin-haired biped step between trees while staring at him. He fled toward approaching headlights, fell down a drop to the road breaking his collarbone, and was picked up by a passing couple who took him to a ranger station.

FootstepsVocalizationGrowlFull-body sightingAnimal behaviour
here a few years ago Utah #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/08/30/sc-ep141-sasquatch-running-down-the-hill

Wood knock in Utah

While elk hunting, the witness heard with a bionic ear a sharp knock followed by muffled knocks and occasional dog-like barks from a steep juniper mountain with no campers present. A pack of coyotes barked then stopped while the knocking continued. He theorized a Bigfoot was knocking cones from pines, smashing them, and eating ripe pine nuts.

Wood knockVocalization
Last summer Utah #074f3276-620f-4b20-b185-cac4afb9ebee

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

The witness's younger sister and friends heard labored breathing outside the house and went to check. She saw a dark silhouette walking along the edge of the house and turning the corner by her window, after which the group screamed and ran inside.

SilhouettePartial sightingUnidentified sound