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1980 Kentucky #9bdb0699-2477-4b65-b7ca-a51f1a3bc0f2

Howl in Kentucky (1980)

Later in 1980, while walking with his mother to a neighbor's house at night, the witness heard a loud close howl he now associates with the Ohio howl. Both he and his mother were frightened.

Howl
November 1978 Boston, Nelson County, Kentucky Class B #23730

Bowhunters get unexpected response near Boston

Three bowhunting companions were camped overnight in an abandoned barn. After the witness made rabbit-distress calls with cellophane, a distant low moan grew into a loud mournful roar twice, followed by total silence from dogs and insects. The men remained silent in their sleeping bags until morning and then packed up and left without hunting.

VocalizationHowl
1978–1988 Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky Class B #3269

Matching vocalizations heard a decade apart

In August 1988 on a rural farm with woods and creeks, the witness and a relative stood outside after dark to listen for a strange sound. They heard loud cries alternating from woods on both sides of the road where two creeks met, suggesting two animals, while noticing a strong musty odor and unusual silence of normal night sounds. Neither saw anything, and a next-day search along the creek banks found no tracks. Days later they felt the cries matched a vocalization heard in a Sasquatch movie.

VocalizationHowlOdor
1977 Kentucky #a8ab7573-f1bf-4e52-8b96-4570d503396e

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1977)

At age 10 the guest was camping with his father and others on a river sandbar. He woke around 3 a.m. with a stomach ache and sat by the fire. A hairy human-like creature waded in the water, inspected two fish baskets, took one with catfish, looked at him, and walked away.

Full-body sightingFootstepsProperty disturbance
1975–1979 Kentucky #6e9c6cb9-4e1d-4cc4-92d8-28bd1d0c15df

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1975)

The guest's mother arrived at his grandmother's farm at night and was hurried inside after being told a tall hairy creature was nearby. Family members then used a spotlight to show her a figure stepping out of the light along the tree line. Over the following years the family reported repeated nighttime visits marked by forest silence, strong odor, screams and chatter, plus damage to orchard trees and garden crops.

Partial sightingOdorScreamChatterTree break +1
1975 Basket, Henderson County, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/20/sc-ep55-spottsville-monster-part2

Door or window contact near Basket, Kentucky (1975)

The guest describes an eleven month period of nightly harassment at the family farmhouse. The occupants heard screaming and something shaking the doorknob and bracing for repeated episodes. During the same period chickens, a goat, a pig, dogs and a pony were found dead or missing.

Door or window contactVocalization
1975 Spottsville, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/22/sc-ep51-spottsville-monster-part-1

Sasquatch sighting near Spottsville, Kentucky (1975)

In 1975 the witness's family living near Spottsville, Kentucky experienced repeated activity over many months. She described hearing loud limb breaks and an elephant-like scream, smelling a dead-like odor, finding footprints, and losing livestock and pets with entrails removed. She twice saw an 8-foot hairy figure on the property, and four armed relatives fired from the roof as the figure ran past a barn and jumped a fence unaffected.

Full-body sightingVocalizationTracksOdorProperty disturbance
1973 Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OxWGFnMaBANz91pZyraU_fyUy90HE9u7L06r7QW5K9w

Tracks in Kentucky (1973)

The following spring the grandfather woke the guest and his brother on Easter morning to show deep large footprints in mud outside the bedroom window trailing to the parents window and front porch. To keep the mother from seeing them the grandfather had the boys wash the tracks away with well water. Later that day the brothers found matching large tracks in the field where the 1972 figure stood, measured one at about 19 inches, then heard an owl-like hoot tapering to a growl and fled.

TracksGrowl
June 1972 Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OxWGFnMaBANz91pZyraU_fyUy90HE9u7L06r7QW5K9w

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1972)

Guest age 7 and his grandfather saw a tall upright figure standing above the corn at the edge of the field in the evening and went inside. Later that night the guest woke to a strong odor and saw a dark hairy figure filling the bedroom window looking in, while his grandfather held a pistol. The figure moved to the front porch where the grandfather fired a shotgun through the screen door, after which it fled up the road vocalizing with screams and distant whoops.

Partial sightingOdorFootstepsScreamGrowl +2
Summer 1971 Shively, Jefferson County, Kentucky Class B #2385

Strange sounds heard over the course of that summer

The witness was at home at night when called outside by a relative to listen to a distant low moaning howl lasting several minutes while many dogs barked. The sound seemed to fade as if moving away and frightened the witness. No creature was seen and no tracks were found. The witness states similar howls occurred a couple more times that summer.

Howl
1967–1993 Ransom, Pike County, Kentucky Class B #30814

Possible encounters at a home located on a steep hillside near Ransom

The witness was sitting outside on a warm late evening visiting with his father when he heard steady bipedal-sounding footsteps descending the steep wooded hill behind the house. The sounds grew closer to the treeline, stopped and shuffled briefly, then returned up the hill until out of earshot. The witness saw no light and heard no voice, and his father heard nothing.

Footsteps
1960–1964 Louisville, Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/FKgzPJcCl-LD7jEndUrZ-Fc4pEQLLYAlJdZ35UatlYQ

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.

SilhouetteFootsteps
October 1953 Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky Class A #1024

An account of bigfoot tool use

In childhood, the witness and a companion heard a thumping noise while playing and went to investigate. They saw a large hairy animal squatting nearby using pieces of firewood to dig in the ground. The animal stood up, bared its teeth silently, and walked toward them, causing them to flee into the companion's house. When an adult checked moments later, the animal was gone leaving only disturbed ground.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundAnimal behaviour
1950–1969 Kentucky #cb946455-d79d-4e6c-8c7d-fb639f566e42

Movement only in Kentucky (1950)

The guest's mother said that when she was a child staying with her cousin in a house next to a creek, they would hear something large moving up and down the creek lifting and moving rocks with stomping and strange noises. Dogs in the area would hide under the porch during these visits. The girls would stay in bed terrified listening.

Movement onlyUnidentified sound
On the first night of camping Gilbertsville, Trigg County, Kentucky Related account #57777

Vehicle contact near Gilbertsville, Kentucky

On the previous night, something hard struck the truck with a metallic clang and sticks were heard falling in the woods.

Vehicle contactUnidentified sound
2 weeks prior to our conversation Woodbine, Whitley County, Kentucky Related account #32377

Unidentified sound near Woodbine, Kentucky

The same witness and his son later returned with dogs, heard a loud spitting sound and bipedal steps that stopped when they stopped, then left.

Unidentified soundFootstepsMovement only
Last time I was there Stanton, Powell County, Kentucky Related account #50746

Wood knock near Stanton, Kentucky

On a prior visit the witness knocked wood planks together and received a response.

Wood knock
summer of 1978, believed July, one evening Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky Related account #3269

Vocalization near Campbellsville, Kentucky

A relative alone at home heard an unfamiliar frightening cry and searched for shotgun shells.

Vocalization
Date unknown Ransom, Pike County, Kentucky Related account #30814

Unidentified sound near Ransom, Kentucky

A relative reportedly sat on the porch one night and heard similar noises from the same hillside.

Unidentified sound
a few times Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky Related account #38122

Scream near Morehead, Kentucky

The witness and relatives had previously heard scream, whoop and howl sounds on a few occasions in the same general area.

ScreamWhoopHowl