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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
Spring 1980 McCord AFB, Pierce County, Washington Class B #1593

Sounds heard like growling

As an eight-year-old, the witness became separated from friends while playing in the woods and walked alone down a trail. The witness smelled an indescribable odor and heard growling from thick bushes to the left, then heard a surrounding scream and ran out of the woods without looking back. Years later the witness felt the earlier growl matched a supposed Bigfoot vocalization heard in a TV documentary, but remained unsure what was encountered.

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1980–1989 Duvall, King County, Washington Class B #8730

Family hears a howl while camping in the front yard

The witness reports camping with family in the front yard late at night when they heard prolonged loud moaning from up the hill. The unfamiliar sound was frightening and the group eventually went indoors to sleep. Years later the witness felt the sound matched a Bigfoot vocalization heard on television.

Vocalization
1980 Packwood, Lewis County, Washington Class B #1565

Tracks found near a mountainside clear cut

The witness reported finding large five-toed tracks measuring 13-14 inches long and 6-7 inches wide. The find occurred at the edge of a clear cut overlooking Packwood from the south while cutting wood. No creature was seen.

Tracks
November 1979 McCall, Valley County, Idaho Class B #25056

Fish & Game employee recalls following possible tracks while hiking near Little Payette Lake

In November 1979 the witness walked on a low lake's exposed mud flat following the inlet stream and found very large human-like tracks. He followed them about 100 meters and noted they crossed deep water twice and ascended a steep bank without changing stride or showing shaking off. Drawing on lifelong woods experience and wildlife work, he said he could not identify the track maker and ruled out known local animals.

Tracks
November 1979 Greenwater, Pierce County, Washington Class B #1589

Two hunters find large track

Two deer hunters found very large unfamiliar tracks in powder snow near old-growth timber. The woods became unusually silent and one hunter felt they were being watched. They never saw what made the tracks and left the area quickly.

Tracks
October 1979 Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio Class B #69398

Two men find unusual brush structure while deer hunting 10 miles east of Cambridge

The witness and a relative were scouting a remote abandoned strip-mine farm for deer hunting when they followed splitting paths to the top of a spoil bank and found a woven, igloo-shaped shelter made of thorny vines with an entrance and cleared interior. They could not explain who would have built it in dense thorny vegetation with biting insects. Decades later the witness associated the structure with similar ones shown on a Bigfoot television program.

Structure or nest
October 1979 Grand Rapids (largest), Kent County, Michigan Class B #35671

Bow hunter remembers possible intimidation behavior near Grand Rapids

The witness was bow-hunting deer alone from a makeshift blind at a clearing near a power-line cut. From inside the woods he heard loud branch and log breaking sounds together with strange slurred chatter-like vocalizations lasting a few minutes, then silence. He walked toward the area with bow drawn but could not penetrate the dense brush, and companions hunting elsewhere reported nothing unusual. Decades later he felt the vocalizations matched published Samurai chatter recordings.

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October 1979 BLACK ROCK, Tulare County, California Class B #12328

Hunters are awakened by loud, repetitive vocalizations in Monache Meadows

The witness and a companion were camped overnight during a hunting trip when they were awakened around 2 a.m. by very loud howling from a meadow. The sound was described as sad but not threatening and continued intermittently for about an hour while they searched with a spotlight from a vehicle without seeing anything. They then returned to camp.

Howl
September 1979 Dunkirk, Blackford County, Indiana Class B #2458

Two brothers hear strange screams while target shooting. Unusual scratchings on a tree discovered the following day

The witness and a relative had been target shooting and had returned to town when they heard an extremely loud scream from the woods they had just left, carrying across a large field. The witness released a dog to investigate, but the dog ran inside the house and refused to go back outside. The next morning the two returned to the area and found several trees with scratch marks about six feet above the ground.

Scream
September 1979 Weed, Siskiyou County, California Class B #5220

Son and step Father have a strange encounter on the north/east side of Mt.Shasta

The witness and a relative were camping in a remote wooded area when the witness was awakened around 3 a.m. by noises around the truck, including an ice chest being knocked over and a violent impact that rocked the vehicle, followed by a loud piercing scream-like sound. The relative also woke, and in the morning they found the camp in disarray with a dozen eggs missing, the empty carton later found away from camp, and a dent in the truck. No creature was seen and no tracks were found, and the pair stayed up until morning before leaving.

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15 July 1979 IIwaco, Pacific County, Washington Class B #26440

Hitchhiker hears loud vocalization just outside Ilwaco

Two people walking at night along a highway with heavy packs heard an extremely loud, unfamiliar growl from nearby marshland. They reported intense fear with physical reactions and freezing briefly before running a long distance down the road. No visual contact with the source was reported.

Growl
4 July 1979 3 Miles East Of Mead, Saunders County, Nebraska Class B #6410

Multiple witness sighting at night, 3 miles east of Mead, Nebraska

On the night of July 4, 1979, the witness was relaxing with a large group at a farmhouse after fireworks when the group saw a very large figure walking quickly across a bean field about 300 yards away. The figure leaned forward and swung its arms as it crossed the field and disappeared behind a hill. The witness and a relative drove into the field and followed a trail to a barbed-wire fence where the ground was torn up, scanned the nearby treeline with spotlights without seeing anything, then backed out.

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July 1979 Boyle, Alberta Class B #6829

Possible sighting by off-road bikers near Buck Lake

Two youths riding a dirt bike back toward a farm noticed a tall dark figure walking upright on a rural road. When they stopped near a turn, the figure crouched briefly and then scrambled into the roadside ditch and dense bush. The pair fled to the farm and armed themselves without discussing the sighting at the time.

Full-body sighting
July 1979 Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Class B #8972

Possible vocalizations heard by residents in the "Bridgewater Triangle"

In July 1979 the witness reports hearing very loud howling and screaming approaching through dense woods behind the house on three consecutive nights. Each episode involved repeated 20-30 second vocalizations with loud crashing through brush, while other night sounds stopped. On the third night the witness turned on roof floodlights when the source was behind the house; the sound stopped briefly then crashed away quickly in the opposite direction. The witness did not see the source and reports hearing nothing similar after 1979.

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July 1979 Harrison County, Ohio Class B #30548

Two fisherman hear commotion of a roaring animal on brushy bank of Clendening Lake

The witness was fishing from a boat near shore while a companion napped on board. The witness heard footsteps in water, loud roars, splashing, and an animal squealing but saw nothing because shoreline vegetation was very dense. Frightened, the witness moved away quietly and woke the companion, who heard part of the sounds as they left. At the marina a worker said a news crew had previously covered a Bigfoot report at the lake, which led the witness to consider that explanation.

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July 1979 Lake Shasta, Shasta County, California Class B #2770

Couple Has Frightening Encounter Near Lake Shasta

A couple drove to a remote meadow near Squaw Creek and camped overnight. After the campfire burned low at night they heard loud breaking branches, rushing movement circling and approaching the camp, and a loud howl-like vocalization, while their dog growled and a strong foul odor was present. They kept the fire large, shone flashlights into the woods without seeing eyeshine, and left at daylight, later associating the incident with Bigfoot after a friend's comment.

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June 1979 Safford, Graham County, Arizona Class B #44485

Memory told of a possible daylight sighting as a child on Mount Graham

As a 10-year-old visiting Mount Graham with relatives, the witness sat alone on a fallen tree with her back to an upslope boulder. She felt she was being watched, glanced behind her, and saw a large dark hair-covered creature standing upright partly behind the boulder about fifteen feet away. After a second or two she ran to her family, who dismissed her account.

Partial sighting
Summer 1979 Ringwood, Passaic County, New Jersey Class B #38762

Woman recalls seeing something strange cross the road while driving at dusk near Ringwood

The witness was driving home from work at dusk on Skyline Drive when rounding a bend she saw the lower portion of a hairy human-like creature crossing the road. The figure moved from the center of her lane off the roadway and into the woods in a single step. She did not see the upper body and stated it was definitely not human.

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Summer 1979 Montague, Muskegon County, Michigan Class B #31302

Avid hiker recalls years of experience living in an area with what local people called the "Shadow People" near Montague

The witness describes repeated activity over years living near woods in White River Township. The witness reports seeing part of a tall hair-covered figure peeking from brush, finding deer carcasses cached high in trees, stacked bone piles and dugout shelters, hearing breathing and strange calls, smelling musk, feeling watched, and being chased at night by a bipedal creature that halted near the road.

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