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Sasquatch sighting near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1921)
A woman saw a four-foot object moving along a rear fence and fetched a neighbor, who shot it with a shotgun and saw it drop. When approached, it jumped to hind legs and chased the shooter back into the house, then left toward another town. Strange footprints were later reported nearby.
Sasquatch sighting near Seattle, Washington (1914)
A laborer picking berries was attacked by a hairy giant called Bosco that clawed his throat and struck him with a 25-pound window weight. Witnesses, tracks, bitten trees, eaten dog remains, and asphalt footprints were reported. The creature was seen swimming, eating fish, and peering into buildings.
Sasquatch sighting near Springfield, Pennsylvania (1906)
Residents reported a hair-covered animal sometimes upright and sometimes moving on all fours at racehorse speed with a leaping stride. Heavy steel bear traps set and wired to an oak were found sprung with bait eaten, wire snapped, ground torn, and traps dragged rods away. Later explanations blaming a dog or disguised man were followed by continued reports.
Sasquatch sighting in Idaho (1902)
In the early 1900s a Bigfoot appeared at an ice-skating gathering on a river in Idaho, causing skaters to flee by wagon. A later hunting party of 20 men found it gone but discovered tracks in the snow.
Sasquatch sighting near Halstead, Pennsylvania (1895)
A very tall hair-covered wild woman was reported riding a taken balance wheel and encountering a peddler with a horse. She allegedly broke the horse's neck with one jerk, rendered the peddler unconscious, and dragged the horse to the woods where bones were later found. Pursuers found huge footprints and piles of rattlesnake skins but did not locate her.
Vocalizations heard from creature seen by witness
A father and son were returning from an unsuccessful hunting trip when the father stopped by a fallen tree to light his pipe and saw a tall hairy unclothed figure standing nearby. The figure vocalized loudly after noticing the man, then walked quickly toward the woods. The son joined his father and both watched the first figure and a second slightly smaller one walk along the woods edge before disappearing into the trees.
Vocalization near Morgantown, Pennsylvania (1881)
A party out driving with horses through a hill pass had a lead horse become unmanageable and show terror as a wild cry came from the thicket, refusing to pass. Local farmers also reported livestock depredations and peculiar footprints in snow that searchers could not resolve. The newspaper presented the story without conclusion.
Sasquatch sighting near Inyo County (1871)
Teamsters camping by a lake reported a ghost-like naked figure stealing scraps and plunging into the water when spoken to or shot at. In fall 1871 men saw it clearly as a large hairy man eating scraps. Investigators later found a cave with rags, bones, and a dead naked man.
A surveyor and trader for the Northwest Company comes across tracks of an unusually large, unidentified animal
A surveying party traveling through the Rocky Mountains in winter came upon a large, well-defined track in shallow snow on ice. The track was measured at about fourteen inches long by eight inches wide with four toe marks and was seen extending about a hundred yards from north to south. The party chose not to follow it, with companions unwilling to pursue such a large animal with small guns, and the party leader recorded uncertainty whether it was an unusually large bear or something else.
Tracks in Montana (1700)
Two trappers set up camp to trap beaver and found their camp demolished and human-like tracks around it. At night they heard rustling, smelled a foul stench, fired a shot and heard something flee. After separating in the morning, one man found his partner dead with a broken neck and bite marks and fled, blaming a wild man.
Tracks
Later on the same vacation the witness left the trail twice, found wide natural openings, and saw a vague footprint-like impression about an inch deep.
Tracks near Fort Coulonge, Quebec
Footprints were found in deep snow in the same vicinity and photographed, appearing bipedal but expanded by melting and re-freezing.
Tracks
The text mentions another footprint sighting that was not taken seriously because it was regarded as legend.
Property disturbance near Thunder Bay, Ontario
Months later in winter the landlord found a large amount of earth moved from one side of the crawl space to the other, freezing pipes, with wood boards placed where digging occurred.
Tracks near Northern Ontario, Canada, Ontario
On a later visit the witness found one large track and later covered it up while showing people the area.
Structure or nest near Northern Ontario, Canada, Ontario
On a later visit to the same bush area the witness found a place he felt was an unusual shelter.
Tracks near Markdale - Grey County, Ontario
A companion reportedly noticed possible cougar tracks at the end of the driveway earlier that week.
Tracks
Around the same time the witnesses saw very large detail-less prints in hard clay by the creek that appeared bipedal.
Tracks near Bruce Mines, Ontario
The witnesses had previously seen very large tracks in the snow behind their house that were assumed to be from a very large moose without seeing the animal.
Structure or nest
A couple days earlier the witness and a relative found a woven-stick structure across a river and a large stick newly placed upright like a spear in a trail, which the relative took home.