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Summer 1964 Estill And Hampton, Hampton County, South Carolina Class B #975

Young boy witnesses man like creature in the swamp while camping, also a mention of a truck driver encountering a similar creature.

The witness's brother was camping with friends late on a Friday night when the group heard noises and reportedly saw a tall hairy man-like figure that frightened them into fleeing and leaving their gear. The witness learned of it secondhand after the brother returned home terrified despite carrying a shotgun. The next day the witness accompanied the brother back to retrieve belongings and found the camp torn up with scattered items and strange toed footprints.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundTracksProperty disturbance
1961–1962 Lake Of The Ozarks, Missouri #6245a062-2d7b-45ab-8ff8-0ceb3fd8d98e

Sasquatch sighting near Lake Of The Ozarks, Missouri (1961)

During a family stay at a remote lake cabin the witness's stringer of catfish was found cleaned and lined up. Exploring uphill along a stream he watched a small hairy human-like figure play in a dammed pool, smash crawdads together and eat them. When it beckoned him closer he backed away and returned to the cabin without telling anyone.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviourProperty disturbance
1 August 1959 Graf, Dubuque County, Iowa Class B #36817

Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque

In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingSilhouetteFootstepsScream +2
1952–1953 Chatsworth, Burlington County, New Jersey Class B #45647

Memory told of a possible encounter while camping with Girl Scouts in the Pine Barrens

The witness was camping overnight with a large scout group near a lake when a large pot of food disappeared from camp. Throughout the night the group heard bushes thrashing, repeated tree knocks, and loud long whistles coming from different sides of the camp. Counselors kept everyone by the fire until daylight, when another scout group helped them leave and police were called but reportedly found nothing.

Property disturbanceWood knockWhistleMovement only
Summer 1924 British Columbia Class A #1091

Albert Ostman account -- Multiple-day encounter with family of Sasquatches

A prospector camping alone in coastal mountains awoke at night to being carried inside his sleeping bag for hours to a small enclosed valley. There he encountered four hair-covered individuals described as a family group and was held for about six days living on remaining canned food. He gained favor with the younger ones using snuff and handmade utensils, then incapacitated the adult male with a large dose of snuff and escaped during the resulting commotion, hiking south to a logging camp for help.

Full-body sightingChatterProperty disturbanceScream
at night Between Lombardy And Portland, Ontario Related account #14981

Unidentified sound near Between Lombardy And Portland, Ontario

On a night during the same stay, garbage cans were heard being jostled, initially attributed to raccoons.

Unidentified soundProperty disturbance
Date unknown Westport, Ontario Related account #24733

Property disturbance near Westport, Ontario

A large embedded rock weighing about twenty to thirty pounds had been pulled up and moved off the trail to the creek.

Property disturbance
the day prior to the sighting Westport, Ontario Related account #24733

Property disturbance near Westport, Ontario

An oriole feeder left hanging about seven feet high a week earlier was found on the ground empty the day before the sighting.

Property disturbance
Maybe about 2000 Ontario Related account #9516

Property disturbance in Ontario

Around 2000, something hit the side of the cottage hard while the witness was in bed, an impact also heard by her son in another room.

Property disturbance
Recently Westlock, Alberta Related account #23259

Property disturbance near Westlock, Alberta

On five recent occasions cleaned deer carcasses were removed from the property without signs of dragging and were never recovered.

Property disturbance
BFRO YEAR: About 1979 British Columbia Class B #2446

Witnesses hear, smell, and feel something large moving & walking right next to them

Late at night in heavy fog, the witness's wife went to the outhouse and encountered something very close that she heard moving and smelled strongly, then fled back inside. The witness went outside with a gun and flashlight but could see nothing in the fog, though he heard bipedal footsteps, noticed a strong odor, and heard a low screeching sound toward a relative's home. The next morning he found a barbed-wire fence broken down with nails pulled out but found no tracks or hair.

OdorMovement onlyFootstepsVocalizationProperty disturbance
1975 Summer Place not stated Related account #28740

Footsteps

During a family tent stay the group heard heavy bipedal-sounding footsteps on gravel over multiple nights and the witness felt a hand-like touch through the tent fabric.

FootstepsProperty disturbance
a year later in the fall Place not stated Related account #3368

Odor

A year later in the fall the witness returned with a relative to a nearby trail and found a torn log, overturned stones, and a strong animal-like odor.

OdorProperty disturbance
2 years ago Place not stated Related account #52031

Property disturbance

Two years ago the witness found all first-season pears gone and fruit-bearing branches broken high in a young tree.

Property disturbanceTree break
Over several months Blaine, Aroostook County, Maine Related account #76760

Property disturbance near Blaine, Maine

Over several months the household's chickens and turkeys declined sharply with only feathers found and no bodies or blood.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Addison, Steuben County, New York Class B #4643

Follow up investigation to track find in Rathbone

In early August 1995, a couple fishing at a neighbor's pond near Addison found large footprints, hair-like material and disturbed vegetation. Additional prints appeared on subsequent days on different sides of the pond. State wildlife officials and university staff examined casts and samples but did not identify the source.

TracksHairProperty disturbancePossible hoax
recently Place not stated Related account #12388

Property disturbance

One cat went missing and another cat was found killed with its hind-quarter ripped open.

Property disturbance
BFRO YEAR: 1989,1993 Essex County, New York Class A #1522

Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.

ScreamOdorFootstepsSilhouetteProperty disturbance +1
A few months later Place not stated Related account #64192

Footsteps

The witness heard footsteps near his vehicle and something pounding on a steel garbage container after midnight.

FootstepsProperty disturbance
Fall 2002 Keene Valley, Essex County, New York Related account #11956

Property disturbance near Keene Valley, New York

After a day hike in fall 2002 the group returned to find three flat hand-sized stones deliberately stacked with a stick on the back porch steps.

Property disturbance