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June 1982 Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri Class B #6775

Child has daylight sighting along Meramec River

While camping with family and friends, the witness's young son ran from a dirt road saying he saw a tall hair-covered man. Later that evening the group heard heavy walking and loud limb-snapping in the adjacent woods and noticed a dead-like smell. The next day they found a bulldozed trail with broken limbs and saplings where the sounds had come from.

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October 1981 Pillowville-Christmasville Communities, Carroll County, Tennessee Class B #4381

Brief dusk sighting near Pillowville

The witness and a companion were walking along a road after sundown when the witness heard movement on an elevated fence row. The witness climbed up to look across a cut corn field and saw a tall slender brown shaggy figure walking along a ditch, which stepped into a ditch bank after being shouted at. They ran back to the companion's house, and the witness returned the next day to find large human-like footprints in lime dust.

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Winter 1981 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana Class B #1533

Motorist & passenger see white creature standing off I-15

The witness and a companion were driving on the interstate at night when headlights lit up a white erect figure over six feet tall on a nearby mountainside. The figure appeared to be watching highway traffic and was visible for only a few seconds in the dark. Both occupants noticed it and verbally confirmed to each other that they had seen it.

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20 December 1980 Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia Class B #36202

Memory told of a tall hairy figure seen in a corn field near Lawrenceville

The witness was riding on a school bus at night after a game when they noticed a tall, hair-covered figure standing in a corn field near a scarecrow. The figure was watched for several seconds as the bus passed about 75 to 100 yards away. Other passengers did not see it and laughed when the witness called out.

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18 May 1980 Trout Lake, Klickitat County, Washington Class B #58031

Recalling possible daylight sighting near Trout Lake as Mount St. Helens erupts

The witness, then nine years old, was traveling with family on Highway 141 to collect rocks on the morning Mount St. Helens erupted. From about 200 yards away the witness saw a very tall, big brown figure run across the highway in two steps with arms swinging during an observation of about two seconds. The parents, who were looking out the side windows, did not see the figure.

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1980–1981 St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Class B #1498

Hunters witness a large, dark, manlike creature pull a stump from the ground.

Two hunters walking toward a river heard a splash and saw a dark, muscular, hairy creature with its back to them. The creature pulled a cypress stump from the mud, threw it into the river, then turned to look at them and walked briskly away along the riverbank. The men then found large human-like footprints at the spot where it had stood.

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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.

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August 1978 Lake Chelan WA, Chelan County, Washington Class B #31427

Memory of a possible night-time sighting as a youth playing 'Hide and Go Seek' in Holden Village

A child playing a night game ran behind a maintenance shed and heard gravel move. About ten feet away, a huge dark figure crouched at chained garbage cans rose smoothly to stand very tall. The witness fled to tell adults, who suggested it was a bear or a person watching the children.

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Fall 1978 Medina, Medina County, Ohio Class B #4960

Sighting by motorists along Poe Rd

In the fall of 1978 around midnight, the witness was driving a friend home when both noticed a strange upright creature standing beside the road. The being was described as large and bear-like in stance but with a non-bear-like face, standing about six feet tall, staring at them without moving. The pair reportedly saw it clearly but told almost no one afterward, later confirming with each other that they remembered the same details.

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Summer 1978 Sullivan County, Indiana Class B #2470

Two people observe a large bipedal creature under a security light.

Late at night, a young man and his girlfriend were talking beside a parked car at her home when both saw a large hair-covered biped appear under an outside light about 100 feet away. The creature was first crouched, then stood, stared briefly, stepped over a low fence and disappeared into a soybean field while nearby horses were heard running. A next-morning search found only indistinct impressions after rain.

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September 1977 Granite City, Madison County, Illinois Class B #39852

Memory told of a possible sighting while parked in a car near Granite City

While a dating couple sat talking in a parked car near woods and lakes, the woman saw a large dark figure standing behind the car about 10 to 15 feet away. She reacted with sudden shock and told her companion what she had seen. The figure moved away and had disappeared by the time both occupants looked back, so only the woman directly saw it.

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21 May 1977 Havelock, Carteret County, North Carolina Class B #33358

Military officer recalls possible daylight sighting while driving in the Croatan National Forest

Three people driving on a forest road in the early afternoon came around a bend and saw a very large dark bipedal figure about 75 yards ahead walking toward them. After a few seconds the figure turned and walked into the woods. They drove to the spot, stopped and waited briefly, but saw nothing further and found no tracks on the hard dry ground.

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September 1976 Montgomery County, Missouri Class B #1132

Witness noticed creature was human shaped.

The witness was driving to work on a county road when he noticed a large dark figure in an empty hayfield. On approaching closer, the figure looked human-shaped, very tall, and covered in black hair. The creature noticed the vehicle and moved quickly toward cover at a nearby creek. The witness later returned to the site with a relative to look for traces but found nothing.

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Summer 1976 DOYLINE, Webster Parish, Louisiana Class B #23882

Woman recounts incident involving her father near town of Doyline on Lake Bistinue

Late one evening in 1976, a neighbor arriving home reportedly found a large hairy dark man-like creature on his porch. The creature fled when headlights hit it and leaped over a six-foot fence. The neighbor's wife had been inside holding a pistol after hearing something pull on the screen door. The witness's father then saw the creature run and leap a wide creek, hearing a grunt on landing, before it disappeared.

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October 1975 Gorham, Jackson County, Illinois Class B #40842

Memory told of a possible sighting along Happy Hollow Road near Gorham

The witness was riding in a vehicle with three relatives on a wooded road after sundown. As the vehicle came around a curve, the headlights illuminated a creature standing on a creek bank by a wooden bridge. The creature looked toward the vehicle, its eyes caught in the headlights, then turned and walked away.

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September 1975 Pilot Rock, Umatilla County, Oregon Class B #695

A pheasant hunter's sighting near Pilot Rock cemetary.

The witness was walking home from pheasant hunting on a ridge before dark. He noticed a dark upright figure about a quarter-mile away walking toward the mountains. He shouted twice; it turned its whole upper body to look at him once, then kept walking. He watched for about 15 minutes until it disappeared, speculating it had been lying down before standing up.

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1975 Denison, Grayson County, Texas Class B #2397

Seven-foot tall creature seen by two youths; a local newspaper later carries story about other incidents in the same area

Two boys walked from their houses into nearby woods toward a creekbed to shoot BB guns while footsteps seemed to parallel them and close to nearby. At the bottom of the creekbed they looked toward the sounds and saw a roughly seven-foot-tall hair-covered figure whose face they could not discern. Both fled home in fear and said the figure did not follow them.

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March 1974 Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Class B #2100

Witness recounts he and his friend's encounters with a strange creature along with strange sounds and footprint finds

Early one morning while still dark, the witness and a companion walking to the bus stop noticed a dark cone-shaped mound under a street lamp about 300 feet away. The shape stood up and walked toward the end of the street, then turned, picked something from the ground, and entered a strip of woods. The witness estimated it was about seven feet tall, very thin with wide hips, long arms, and a pointed crest on its head.

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Summer 1974 Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach County, Florida Class B #45551

Recollection of setting up camp and observing a tall bi-pedal animal running near Palm Beach Gardens

While setting up camp in the late afternoon near a wooded area with a man-made canal and large dirt pile, the witness saw a very tall, brown-haired bipedal figure run across an open field about 100 yards away. The figure paused to look toward the group, then ran quickly up the steep dirt pile, paused to look again, and disappeared over the other side. The group decided not to remain to camp that night.

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