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Winter 1975 Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois Class A #2805

Early morning sighting of creature looking at "something" in the snow in Vandalia

The witness looked out a bedroom window early in the morning to check the snow and saw a large dark creature close to the window bent down in the snow. The creature looked up at the witness, stood up slowly, and took a step toward the window. The frightened witness ran to another room and hid until a parent arrived.

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Summer 1975 Between Culman And Warrior Near Blount Springs., Blount County, Alabama Class A #50178

Recollection of a roadside sighting of a white Bigfoot near Blount Springs

The witness was driving a VW bus around a tight curve at night when the headlights illuminated a white-haired creature loping uphill on all fours toward the road. As it reached the road edge within feet of the vehicle, it stood upright on its hind legs. The witness drove past it, did not see it in the mirrors in the dark, and was frightened.

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Summer 1975 Hancock County, Mississippi Class A #1341

Family witness a large, hair covered creature eating food from their garden.

The witness woke upstairs at night after a neighbor's dog barked and looked out a window with siblings at a garden below. They described a large human-like entity covered in dark hair squatting and eating vegetables, which looked up with glowing eyes but showed no fear. After a relative fired a gun into the air, the entity stood, ran bipedally toward nearby woods and a river, and large human-like footprints were found in the garden the next morning.

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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.

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1975 Spottsville, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/22/sc-ep51-spottsville-monster-part-1

Sasquatch sighting near Spottsville, Kentucky (1975)

In 1975 the witness's family living near Spottsville, Kentucky experienced repeated activity over many months. She described hearing loud limb breaks and an elephant-like scream, smelling a dead-like odor, finding footprints, and losing livestock and pets with entrails removed. She twice saw an 8-foot hairy figure on the property, and four armed relatives fired from the roof as the figure ran past a barn and jumped a fence unaffected.

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1975 Custer County, Idaho #048ececa-6f74-4453-87ec-d3cd358448b8

Sasquatch sighting near Custer County (1975)

The witness was on a week-long deer hunt with family and others in Idaho. From a rock vantage point he watched a large black animal move on all fours across an opposite slope through his rifle scope. When it reached a flat spot it stood upright, turned with long arms, and walked bipedally to the treeline, and his father in orange nearby looked half its size.

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Summer 1975 Bellevue, Sarpy County, Nebraska Class A #7809

Teen has nighttime sighting near Fontenelle Forest

On the third night of a three-day series, the witness walked home across a field after dark and heard footsteps converging to intercept him, smelled a strong foul odor, and sensed something pass very close unseen. From his illuminated backyard he then saw a tall, dark-haired bipedal figure standing by a clothesline pole about 40-50 feet away, staring at him for about 20 seconds before he ran inside.

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1975 Antlers, Oklahoma #2f7eaa58-0d7a-4bf5-9858-57aac63df1d2

Sasquatch sighting near Antlers, Oklahoma (1975)

The witness, then a young boy, followed his pet dog into woods behind the rental house. The dog yelped and fled past him. The witness then saw a huge hairy human-like figure standing in a clearing staring at him before stepping behind a cedar tree, after which he ran home.

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1975 Spotsville, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/05/18/sc-ep-105-throwback-part-2

Sasquatch sighting near Spotsville, Kentucky (1975)

A family home in Kentucky was terrorized in 1975 by tall hairy creatures over an extended period. Witnesses described seeing a figure watching from a gully, hearing limbs breaking, finding livestock killed, and seeing a figure under a light and exiting a barn. Fear became so intense the father prepared to burn the house with the family inside rather than risk an attack.

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9 November 1974 Lebo, Coffey County, Kansas Class A #10660

Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal east of Lebo

The witness was driving slowly on a rural road at night to bring awards to a scout campout when a hair-covered biped stepped over a fence into the road. She stopped close to it, stepped out behind her car door, and watched it for about a minute under her headlights while noting red glowing eyes and a musky odor and feeling calm. The biped then crossed the road, stepped over the opposite fence, paused to look back, and strode toward trees out of sight.

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4 November 1974 Seminole, Seminole County, Oklahoma Class A #6644

Deer hunters have daylight sighting near Seminole.

In fall 1974 the witness and a relative stopped while driving back roads looking for deer and watched through a rifle scope from about a quarter-mile away. They described a large black creature pulling leaves from a branch over the road while two much smaller creatures played in puddles nearby. After watching several minutes they left over safety concerns, returning a week later to find the branch was over 11 feet high.

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November 1974 Remus, Isabella County, Michigan Class A #861

Cub Scouts see two different colored creatures

The witness was fishing with five other boys near a house on Rolland Road when a breaking-log sound drew attention to a large dark hairy biped crouching in the woods east of the road. The boys ran to the house, and about an hour later they saw a lighter-colored hairy biped in the field west of the road while crashing sounds continued in the woods.

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November 1974 Brookings, Curry County, Oregon Class A #13729

Logging crew has daytime sighting

Four coworkers at a cable logging site noticed movement across a canyon. Two of them watched the subject for about 15 minutes through a rifle scope from about 2500 feet away. They described an upright two-legged figure with broad shoulders, reddish-brown hair and a pointed head moving unhurriedly toward a ridge until it disappeared. After work they discussed the sighting and concluded it was a bigfoot.

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October 1974 Woodinville, King County, Washington Class A #24562

Man remembers running home when he and his friend spot a tall hairy creature near Woodinville

The witness and a companion were catching crawdads among ponds near a wooded hillside on a rainy afternoon. The witness looked upslope and saw a tall dark upright figure moving uphill. The witness shouted and ran toward home, with the companion following after also seeing the figure. The encounter lasted only seconds.

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16 September 1974 Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan Class A #10151

Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal near Marshall

The witness was driving a rural road at night for work when he stopped to watch an upright creature on the roadside that appeared to be smelling and examining possible roadkill. He watched from his vehicle for about three minutes in his headlights as the creature stood up and walked toward him to within about ten feet. The creature then turned away, walked into the ditch and woods, and the witness drove away and avoided the road afterward.

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September 1974 Wakefield, Washington County, Rhode Island Class A #6496

Bicycling student has night encounter

Late at night the witness stopped under a streetlight while biking back to school to fix a brake. He heard loud bipedal footsteps approaching, then saw a white-haired gorilla-like creature about 20-25 feet away. The creature chased him briefly, moving bipedally and on its knuckles, before stopping, swaying, and climbing over a rock wall. The witness rode to a nearby house and waited until morning.

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September 1974 Lakeland, Polk County, Florida Class A #11812

Twilight sighting on the west side of Lakeland

Two people were sitting outside watching the sunset when they heard muffled tapping like wood being chopped from behind a house across the street. They stood to look and then watched a very large upright monkey-like animal climb a pine, jump to another tree, pause briefly, and jump down from an estimated 20 feet.

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September 1974 Ash Grove, Greene County, Missouri Class A #9502

Young horse rider has daytime sighting near Ash Grove

The witness, then ten, was riding a horse to collect cows for evening milking when the horse refused to advance, stamping and snorting. A large dark humanoid stood up from behind a small cedar tree about 60 to 70 yards away, walked several upright strides, and hopped the back fence. The horse then bolted back to the barn, and a later search with relatives found nothing.

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September 1974 Dos Rios, Mendocino County, California Class A #7860

Hunter has daytime sighting near Dos Rios

The witness was deer hunting alone in a canyon when he spotted a nude human-like figure coming up the canyon from a long distance. He watched it through a riflescope and then with the naked eye as it reached about 80 yards across the canyon, briefly entering manzanita brush and then reappearing to continue uphill. He described a tall, slender, muscular hair-covered figure walking hunched over that did not appear to notice him.

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20 July 1974 Davie, Broward County, Florida Class A #44837

Years of South Florida Skunk Ape stories supported by witness accounts and newspaper articles

In July 1974 the witness and his older cousin were staying overnight in a relative's sitting room in southern Florida. Late at night under floodlights they watched a tall hairy biped outside the picture window scream, then walk around the property while they followed it from window to window. They saw it eat a watermelon with both hands and scoop water to drink before leaving on a wooded trail.

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