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at the time, I was about 12 years old Washington #1d45ea7a-54fb-413d-a3f8-ee0576848194

Sasquatch sighting in Washington

The witness, age about 12, was riding home from a fly-fishing trip with his younger brother and stepfather when a small bipedal creature ran in front of their truck. It passed only a few feet ahead in the headlights and crossed without looking at them. All three occupants saw it and later agreed on brownish fur and a conical head.

Road crossingPartial sighting
Date unknown Skamania County #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/12/22/sc-ep66-giants-in-america

Sasquatch sighting near Skamania County

While helping with a book, the witness parked his RV in a vineyard during a rainy night, felt slapping and pushing on the vehicle, and found paw-like muddy prints down its side in the morning. The next day he hiked five miles into wilderness with friends to gather berries and mushrooms and watched a hairy, bearded figure peeking from behind rocks and trees. The group left the area that night feeling watched.

Partial sightingVehicle contactTracks
the following fall John Day, Oregon #efa1c101-ce37-4eb0-b029-03279fd8c145

Footsteps near John Day, Oregon

The following fall archery opener, five hunters camped at the same site and the guest shot a buck in hot weather, butchering it and hanging the inedible carcass across the creek about nine feet up. After 10 p.m. they heard heavy footfalls and feeding grunts, fired guns to scare the animal, found the carcass pulled down, rehung it higher twice with the same result, then listened as it stripped rib meat requiring great grip strength. One companion left for Alaska afterward and the guest never returned to the area.

FootstepsGrowlProperty disturbance
the following spring John Day, Oregon #efa1c101-ce37-4eb0-b029-03279fd8c145

Sasquatch sighting near John Day, Oregon

The following spring the guest returned to the same camp with a hunting partner and girlfriend for a weekend camp. After dinner visitors left, the partner fired a revolver at a large bipedal animal that jumped from the creek bed, then all three watched it run parallel across a sparsely timbered hillside in spotlight, noting reflective eyes and remarkable speed while keeping its gaze on them. The girlfriend reported it whistled at her, and next morning they found a single partial footprint in hard clay.

Full-body sightingEyeshineWhistleTracks
Date unknown Place not stated #850adcf0-7b4b-4557-a296-653b48f888a5

Paranormal encounter

The witness was making lunch midday when the front door opened and slammed shut. He saw a light-like shape of a shoulder and dress move back out the door a few feet away. He felt residual energy in the room and concluded he had seen a ghost.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
Date unknown Place not stated #850adcf0-7b4b-4557-a296-653b48f888a5

Paranormal encounter

The witness woke in his dark dorm room to see a totally black Gumby-like figure a few feet away vibrating intensely. He rubbed his eyes, turned on a light and sketched it. The figure said nothing and the experience ended.

Full-body sighting
before I even encountered the Bigfoot forums Place not stated #048ececa-6f74-4453-87ec-d3cd358448b8

Scream

On a nine-day horse-supported deer hunt deep in the Trinity Alps, the witness and one companion camped apart with a pack mule. A long scream ending in a pulsating roar sounded downhill, and less than an hour later the mule was found injured and alarmed staring toward the trees. No deer were seen all week and others reported rocks sliding down on them.

ScreamRock throwing
a month before hunting season Tuolumne County, California #048ececa-6f74-4453-87ec-d3cd358448b8

Eyeshine near Tuolumne County

The witness and his father camped to build blinds and saw three sets of tall red eyeshine outside the fire circle that dimmed when lit. Later something struck their truck camper hard enough to knock items off shelves, then a loud woman-like scream sounded nearby with an answering scream where the eyes had been, followed by movement around the camper all night.

EyeshineScreamVehicle contactFootsteps
I was nine at the time, nine to 10 Massachusetts #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/12/14/sc-ep65-three-sasquatch-encounters

Tree break in Massachusetts

As a child the witness was scouting deer sign with his father when the family dog ran ahead and began yipping. They heard branches breaking and the dog go silent, and the father drew his sidearm and backed out with the child. The next day they returned with another officer and found the dead dog under cover near the father's tree stand, and the father said a huge Sasquatch-like beast was responsible.

Tree breakUnidentified soundSilhouette
Date unknown New Jersey #b717225a-a92f-4caa-b7b7-76b230b5c39b

Property disturbance in New Jersey

The guest joined a paranormal group to investigate a barn where tools were reported knocked from walls. While going upstairs with another investigator, he felt stinging then intense burning pain on his back. Others removed his shirt to find whelp-like whip marks that took over a week to heal.

Property disturbanceAnimal behaviour
Tuesday on the 21st York, York County, Pennsylvania #b717225a-a92f-4caa-b7b7-76b230b5c39b

Sasquatch sighting near York, Pennsylvania

The guest, a delivery truck driver, was en route to a distribution center in York when he saw a large dark figure by a creek from a bridge. He stopped along with another driver to watch it, thinking it was a bear. The figure stood to about eight and a half feet, looked like a hairy human holding a dead goat or dog, grunted, slammed a fist into the water, then dropped to all fours and fled rapidly through water and woods. A state trooper who responded suggested a bear, which both witnesses rejected.

Full-body sightingGrowlAnimal behaviour
Date unknown California #31526f64-b5d1-411c-a23b-6b18348a195f

Door or window contact in California

While camped with volunteers for an archaeology project in California, the witness heard something approach her tent at night and felt it touch the tent from top to bottom. She got out to look but found nothing. After re-entering, she heard a bang by her head, concluded it had been in a tree, then heard it walk away over granite.

Door or window contactFootstepsUnidentified sound
Date unknown Place not stated #31526f64-b5d1-411c-a23b-6b18348a195f

Property disturbance

While out with tribal members to assess a meadow, the group left a vehicle with keys on the windshield and returned to find the keys missing. After searching the ground, they found the keys up in the nook of a tree branch. A tribal member attributed the move to Yali, while the witness said she had no other explanation.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Pennsylvania #31526f64-b5d1-411c-a23b-6b18348a195f

Howl in Pennsylvania

During summer reunions at his grandparents' house, the witness and cousins sleeping in tents repeatedly heard distant howls. They asked adults about the sounds, but the adults dismissed them. The witness later recalled this as early unexplained activity before moving to Pennsylvania.

Howl
Date unknown Place not stated #4ab0108e-7ce2-4883-9bc1-07a62592d0ff

Property disturbance

The guest described maintaining a long-term gifting interaction in the woods, leaving food and alcohol. After requesting a skull, he found a freshly killed groundhog head in a copse of trees and did not take it. He said a series of bad events followed in the same area.

Property disturbance
Date unknown Alabama #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/Z1QkvkCDe_1gy9oXbfkCLuZVvOJ8g6YJetf8Y7Gp24k

Sasquatch sighting in Alabama

The hunter was in a raised stand on his own property in the morning and repeatedly mistook a dark shape for a neighbor's large dog. On a closer look it stood upright and stared at him. He tried to photograph it with his phone, considered using his rifle for proof, then looked away and it was gone silently.

Full-body sighting
this summer, it will be four years ago Utah #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/Z1QkvkCDe_1gy9oXbfkCLuZVvOJ8g6YJetf8Y7Gp24k

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

The younger guest ran ahead on a trail during a family night hike and saw a brownish creature taller than his father. He screamed for his father, and the creature ran away through scrub oak trees. The father did not see it but heard very loud crashing as it left. Both later recalled seeing distant lights on a ridge that they first thought were flashlights.

Full-body sightingEyeshineMovement only
end of last month Venango County, Pennsylvania #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/KcQSPG0ibmmvcEvpa9fzroW8YMWKsNniDpLthrMOoy4

Sasquatch sighting near Venango County

The witness camped alone on his wooded property and woke at 4 a.m. to his car alarm, which had never gone off before. He fired a shot into the air, approached the car, and by the blinking lights saw a tall black figure striding away. He hid in his car with his gun until daylight and then drove out.

Full-body sightingVehicle contact
four times in the last two years Place not stated #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/KcQSPG0ibmmvcEvpa9fzroW8YMWKsNniDpLthrMOoy4

Tracks

Researchers visiting the property over about two years reported finding different-sized footprints, thermal-video figures that popped up and down in grass, rocks thrown while hiking, wood knocks and rock clacks, and a juvenile crouched in grass that one researcher approached. They interpret size differences as four individuals including two juveniles and two adults. They also collected casts, audio, and other trace evidence.

TracksPartial sightingRock throwingWood knockVocalization
July of this year Warren, Connecticut #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/KcQSPG0ibmmvcEvpa9fzroW8YMWKsNniDpLthrMOoy4

Vocalization near Warren, Connecticut

The witness was solo hammock camping when he heard a duck or goose mauled with splashing, then movement around him in the dark. A loud grunt from up high that felt like it went through him frightened him. He packed up and left the woods that night.

VocalizationUnidentified soundFootsteps