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Fall 1999 Karnak, Pulaski County, Illinois Class A #24544

Motorist has a nighttime sighting near Karnak

The witness was driving slowly on a rural gravel road at night when bright eyes were seen beside the road. A very tall, heavy, hair-covered biped stepped onto the road about 20 feet ahead, walked across, paused to stare at the vehicle for a few seconds, then continued crossing. The witness rolled up the windows and locked the doors out of fear and reported no unusual odor.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingEyeshine
Winter 1989 Waynesville, Pulaski County, Missouri Class A #1138

Family witness a 7-8 foot tall creature, covered with hair, standing in the middle of the road

The witness was riding with family while driving at night on Highway 17 when a tall hair-covered figure was seen standing on the center line. Both the witness's car and an oncoming car stopped and observed it illuminated by taillights for about 30 seconds. The figure then leapt off the roadway into the adjacent creek/river, and both cars drove away without investigating.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
15 May 1982 Fort Leonard Wood, Pulaski County, Missouri Class A #4421

Soldier in basic training has daylight sighting at Fort Leonard Wood

The witness was riding in the back of a military truck with their platoon traveling on dirt roads to an overnight guard assignment. At a T-intersection, the witness saw a tall brown-haired figure on the road about 30-40 feet away that looked toward the vehicle and then ambled across into the woods. The sighting lasted about 10 seconds and no one else in the truck was awake to see it. The witness was dropped at a remote bridge site about 10 minutes later and spent the night there.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
September 1976 North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas Class A #57471

Memory told of a close daylight encounter with a white Bigfoot while riding a motorcycle inside Camp Joseph T. Robinson

In 1976 the witness was riding a motorcycle alone on a dirt trail after leaving friends who were jumping a ditch. He stopped after glimpsing what he thought was another motorcycle moving through trees to the south. The object proved to be a tall white-haired biped that stopped about 25 yards away on the trail, faced and snarled at him before walking south again, after which he fled back to his friends.

Full-body sighting
Summer 1975 Jacksonville., Pulaski County, Arkansas Class A #10919

Youth has sighting from his backyard on Air Force Base

After school the witness was playing in the backyard behind the home near woods and a lake when he noticed a dark hair-covered figure squatting by a tree and apparently watching him. Startled, he ran inside to tell his mother he had seen a gorilla, though he knew it was not actually a gorilla. When he looked back the figure was gone.

Full-body sighting
1953–1976 Winamac, Pulaski County, Indiana Class A #9245

Family has several sightings at a summer cabin near Winamac.

During a family weekend at riverside cottages, a group of children playing outdoors screamed and pointed toward the dense woods. Adults who ran outside reported seeing a tall, dark-haired biped walking away toward the treeline, with an additional young witness seeing only its back as it entered the woods. An adult aimed a rifle but lowered it without firing, later saying he feared it might be a person.

Full-body sighting
Ten years later, in 1963 Winamac, Pulaski County, Indiana Related account #9245

Sasquatch sighting near Winamac, Indiana

A decade later two relatives waited quietly on a screened porch at night, smelled a strong rotten-meat odor, and watched a large dark-haired biped pass under a bridge light before dropping to all fours to cross the bridge while a dog chased it and returned injured.

Full-body sightingOdor