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1982–1983 Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/5fUeXNpIfrqNJVHWjBxh6RiUWIAdbUVxjKjtDtd0yg8

Sasquatch sighting near Tahlequah, Oklahoma (1982)

As children the witness and his older brother were playing near an old cabin on their grandfather's property overlooking the river. The brother pointed out a large hair-covered figure standing by the water about 100 yards away. When the witness shouted, the figure turned, screamed loudly, and ran quickly along the tree line and disappeared. A neighbor rushed the boys inside, and the grandfather spoke with the neighbor in another language and kept the boys from returning to the river, saying the beings were passing through.

Full-body sightingScreamAnimal behaviour
1980–1989 Hodgens, Le Flore County, Oklahoma Class B #1966

May/June 83/84 Oklahoma Leflore

The witness was alone at home near Hodgen, Oklahoma at dusk in clear weather when they heard a howling sound. The witness reported no visual of the source and described the sounds as incredible and unlike anything heard since. The witness compared the howl to an alleged bigfoot howl heard on television.

Howl
6 September 1979 Jay, Delaware County, Oklahoma Class A #27477

Man remembers seeing a large white hairy man at a cemetery outside the city of Jay

Two people sitting in a cemetery after dark heard something approaching down a ridge and through trees. A tall white hair-covered human-like figure stepped over the fence, crossed the cemetery, then noticed the witnesses and left quickly over the opposite fence into timber with loud crashing. The witnesses reported a very strong unpleasant odor during the encounter.

Full-body sightingFootstepsOdor
Summer 1977 Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma Class B #2789

Camper says a sasquatch entered a cabin of sleeping girls.

During a church retreat campground stay, the witness lay awake in a top bunk on a stormy night after lights-out. She heard the screen door open and shut, smelled a foul odor, heard heavy shuffling steps and breathing with a soft growl behind her bunk, and felt something large and furry trace her face. She next remembers waking on the floor, and the next morning a bunkmate said she had seen a big black hairy creature standing behind the witness.

Door or window contactFootstepsOdorGrowlAnimal behaviour +1
1975–1979 Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/cOE-vqwJp1M-UOmOPMYIsUlwKLXDM-bUFC5tCGLTaRM

Sasquatch sighting in Oklahoma (1975)

The guest's grandparents noticed meat and vegetables disappearing from an outdoor wash house over several days. One night the family smelled a strong musky odor in the living room, and the grandmother saw a large hairy figure squatted outside a picture window. The guest's father chased it as it hopped yard fences, snapped a railroad-tie post, and disappeared over a hill. For about a week afterward the grandmother heard something tampering with the wash-house door at night.

Partial sightingProperty disturbanceOdorFootsteps
1973–1974 Oklahoma #dc02b07d-c43f-4c2c-b3a7-ae2ea017d36b

Scream in Oklahoma (1973)

The witness's father as a teenager went to a river with his older brother, younger sister, and the brother's girlfriend near dark. Something across the river crashed through brush like a heavy animal, then yelled, screamed, broke branches and pushed things over. The group fled in a vehicle, realized they left the youngest sister, drove back and found her running up the road screaming.

ScreamVocalizationTree breakMovement only
August 1966 Edge Of Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma Class A #34555

Woman recalls her nighttime face to face encounter at her window outside Tulsa

Late at night three girls were lying on a bed by an open screened window talking quietly. After hearing footsteps and bushes rustling, a tall hair-covered creature placed its face at the window inches from the witness and stared for several seconds. The witness screamed and the group fled to another room, after which police searched but found nothing. The witness later said the creature matched descriptions of bigfoot she heard.

Partial sightingFootstepsOdor
one night Oklahoma #b46fa661-1edf-42c9-8f97-de7bd2f9b1aa

Vocalization in Oklahoma

One night in bed the witness heard dogs yelping as if in pain, then silence when the fan was turned off and window opened. Then she heard a young girl crying mournfully as if looking for lost dogs. Checks at the window found only silence, and she was too scared to wake her sister.

Vocalization
when I was a kid Oklahoma #b46fa661-1edf-42c9-8f97-de7bd2f9b1aa

Vocalization in Oklahoma

While playing outside alone as a child, the witness repeatedly heard her nickname called in a deep rumbling non-human voice. The way it was said felt evil and frightening, and she would run inside. She believed it was demonic and feared it would take her.

Vocalization
a year after her encounter Oklahoma #b46fa661-1edf-42c9-8f97-de7bd2f9b1aa

Vocalization in Oklahoma

The daughter and mother walked to the grandparents' house down the hill and started back uphill with cats. Birds in a nearby tree went loud then bolted, cats ran, then an extremely loud lion-like roar rattled their chests and froze them. They walked slowly to a gate then ran under a floodlight into the house and pleaded for the father to come home.

Vocalization
Date unknown Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/12/24/sc-ep284-the-christmas-show

Unidentified sound in Oklahoma

Old tape recorders left unattended in remote woods captured a truck leaving, then hours later a several-minute conversation between two women and on another tape distant drumming-like sounds with no known people present.

Unidentified sound
when I was 16 years old Perry, Oklahoma #abc7e28a-f432-4411-8005-75c8b0b2532c

Scream near Perry, Oklahoma

The witness and a friend went dove hunting at dawn at a pond in open pasture. After a shotgun shot a very loud scream came from the woods accompanied by crashing wood sounds that moved toward them. The witness raised the gun, the noise stopped at the treeline, and they watched a large dark bipedal shape move along inside the trees as they walked back.

ScreamTree breakPartial sighting
day before my 13th birthday Perry, Oklahoma #abc7e28a-f432-4411-8005-75c8b0b2532c

Footsteps near Perry, Oklahoma

The witness and a friend were quail hunting on the family property and heard steps following them through dense woods. After crossing a fence they watched a tall hairy biped step over the fence and move between trees to watch them before heading toward a creek. About an hour later the witness returned with older female relatives and saw a different-colored hairy leg and foot watching them from behind trees near the road.

FootstepsFull-body sightingTracks
as he was a junior or senior, mid-November Oklahoma #dc02b07d-c43f-4c2c-b3a7-ae2ea017d36b

Vocalization in Oklahoma

The witness's father and two companions were cooking steaks at a deer camp after dark when something approached loudly, yelled and screamed aggressively, ripped branches and felled a pine tree near them. They abandoned gear except guns and drove away, returning days later with more people to find the camp destroyed, tent shredded, fire grate bent, rocks scattered, and large tracks throughout.

VocalizationTree breakTracksProperty disturbance
Date unknown Octavia, Oklahoma #98887e15-5921-4377-83fb-1ff9feef33c9

Scream near Octavia, Oklahoma

The guest and his wife were staying at a leased cabin near Octavia and walking by a lake around sunset when they heard loud screaming or hollering from the river bottoms about a half-mile to a mile away. He recorded the sounds on a small Kodak camera, turning it on and off several times. Locals later told him there were no elk or moose in the area, only black bear and mountain lions.

Scream
our first year there Nowata, Oklahoma #668cc6d0-f876-4ac6-83ca-81af3a71a7b0

Wood knock near Nowata, Oklahoma

During the first year hunting the property on opening rifle season, the hunters heard chopping or knocking sounds from the valley. They believed someone was cutting wood and went to look. They found no one.

Wood knock
our first year there Oklahoma #477459b4-4c04-4a88-bb65-0de7651224c6

Wood knock in Oklahoma

During the first year hunting the property the hunters heard chopping or knocking sounds down in the valley on opening day of rifle season. They assumed someone was cutting wood and went to look for the source. No person was found.

Wood knock
on one occasion late at night Albion, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma Related account #32689

Vocalization near Albion, Oklahoma

The witness recalled hearing sounds like children talking in the woods late at night while camping.

Vocalization
Date unknown Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma Related account #51430

Unidentified sound near Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

During the site visit a relative of the investigator, alone in brush, heard close deep panting and was unnerved, and the group later found long large scuff marks in light mud nearby.

Unidentified soundTracks
Date unknown Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma Related account #51430

Wood knock near Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

The witness reports a prior nighttime incident at the same location involving sounds like wood knocks.

Wood knock