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two, three Fridays ago Texas EP 302

Sasquatch sighting in Texas

The witness was finishing an evening pig hunt and scanned with a flashlight while exiting the blind. The light revealed a large brownish-black hairy biped with a cone head standing by a tree about forty feet away. It reacted with surprise and fled one way while the witness ran to the truck and left.

Partial sighting
I was 17 Louisiana EP 302

Sasquatch sighting in Louisiana

At seventeen the witness went alone to a stand at an uncle's deer camp after rain. He smelled a strong skunk and rotting-meat odor, heard branches breaking in the swamp, then saw a tall black hairy biped rise and walk past. It looked at him and continued on, with odor and breaking brush lingering as it left.

Full-body sightingOdorFootsteps
when I was 10 years old Texas EP 302

Sasquatch sighting in Texas

At about age ten the witness was in a hunting blind with his father. He turned, looked up and saw something swing from one tree to another without touching the ground. The whole sighting lasted about five seconds.

Partial sightingMovement only
Date unknown Burnt Ranch, Trinity County, California EP 302

Tree break near Burnt Ranch, California

The witness hiked several miles down the Trinity River and sat on a rock watching for fish on a calm day. A tree snapped and fell across the river in the brush, then a heavy log was thrown from the brush onto the river bar. The witness left slowly up the trail while watching the far side.

Tree breakObject throwing
last week Tennessee EP 294

Wood knock in Tennessee

While finishing kayak fishing on a lake, the witness heard owls and then two loud knocks from the woods that sounded like wet wood on a dead tree. The witness did not feel fear and could not identify the source.

Wood knock
about 14 Tennessee EP 294

Footsteps in Tennessee

From a morning tree stand, the witness heard slow methodical crunching steps approaching through a cedar thicket. When the witness called out, something answered with a deep guttural growl-huff. The witness froze, then heard it leave and fired a shot to alert the father.

FootstepsGrowl
as a 12-year-old kid Tennessee EP 294

Odor in Tennessee

While riding an ATV back to camp at night, the witness felt watched and then smelled a strong wet dead-dog odor. The witness felt intense fear and dread without seeing anything and hurried to the fire and tent.

Odor
Date unknown Mississippi EP 294

Tracks in Mississippi

While walking the hunting property, the witness found a large five-toed footprint and a partial heel print in mud on a logging road. The print was larger than the witness's boot and fairly deep. An attempt to cast it failed when rain washed it away.

Tracks
both in the same school year Maine EP 28

Animal behaviour in Maine

The witness got lost from a school hiking group and spent the night in a small cave. Something repeatedly slapped his face from a hole above, and when he grabbed it he felt fur and a hand-like appendage with no paw. He hid in the back until searchers found him next morning and saw nothing in daylight.

Animal behaviourHair
during hunting season Place not stated EP 28

Footsteps

The witness tripped over a deer skull with a snapped neck and saw several more, then felt something pacing beside him while leaving. When he stepped off trail to confront it, a branch was bent back and struck him in the head, knocking him out until midnight. He later recalled a hair-covered face with brow ridges and said officials scrubbed sign from the snow and threatened him.

FootstepsTree break
Date unknown Georgia EP 28

Sasquatch sighting in Georgia

The witness was walking at first light along railroad tracks toward a creek bridge to deer hunt. About 250 yards away a giant dark ape-like figure came out of vegetation knuckle-walking, went up an embankment, briefly stood, then went down the other side. The witness left for his truck and did not hunt there again.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Vidalia, Georgia EP 28

Vocalization near Vidalia, Georgia

The witness heard a loud moaning crying sound coming from a pond a couple hundred yards from his trailer. He grabbed a shotgun and walked over while it continued. When he arrived there was nothing there and the sound had stopped.

Vocalization
15 turning 60. Florida EP 28

Sasquatch sighting in Florida

The witness was out at night with a friend and the friend's father when their dogs ran back terrified and would not leave the dog box. While driving out they saw high wide eyeshine and an outline that leapt from a tree. A crouched hairy shape then rose screaming and tore at trees, and the witness fired his shotgun before all three fled in the truck and never returned.

EyeshineSilhouettePartial sightingScreamTree break +1
I was 14 when we got back. Enterprise, Alabama EP 28

Footsteps near Enterprise, Alabama

The witness was alone at night after pulling a deer into the woods to gut it. He heard cracking and clean snapping of branches circling just out of sight about 20 yards away. He could see nothing in the thick dark until his father drove by and he ran to the truck.

FootstepsMovement only
we were probably eight years old Alaska EP 28

Partial sighting in Alaska

The witness was playing with two other children in earthen foxholes behind the school in Alaska. He saw a black furry hand clenched like a fist peer in through an opening. The children fled immediately and the figure did not follow.

Partial sighting
completely dark on trail Place not stated EP 286

Wood knock

The witness and his cousin hiked the Birch Knob trail to an overlook, heard a wood knock behind them, then after dark heard a huge thump to the left and a very deep gargling growl to the right. They left and heard twigs breaking above them all the way to the car.

Wood knockGrowlFootsteps
first night with dog, past summer about 7:30, one 8 or 9 o'clock morning Virginia EP 286

Growl in Virginia

The family dog was terrified the first night by a deep growl and later refused to go behind the house. With his cousin near the pond the witness felt dread and found scattered deer ribs, legs, skull and later skin with other bones gone. On another morning he heard a deer screaming, found drag marks, blood on a fallen tree and a dead deer with head bent back, while his white shepherd had no blood on it.

GrowlVocalizationProperty disturbanceMovement only
next morning, next night, recent weeks Virginia EP 286

Property disturbance in Virginia

Around the second home the witness found toy trucks moved from a lidded sandbox to the steps two mornings, footprints behind the barn, broken trees, newly piled sticks by the pond and a small teepee structure. Later the trampoline was shifted about nine feet back and seven feet sideways, a makeshift clothesline gutter was torn off, a rock was heard flying through trees in daylight, and brief strong skunk-like and dead-meat odors occurred.

Property disturbanceTracksTree breakStructure or nestRock throwing +1
before I went to bed one night Virginia EP 286

Growl in Virginia

Hoping to catch the owl sound, the witness left a recorder between the kitchen screen and window overnight. He captured a growl he could not explain and remained torn between a Sasquatch explanation and disbelief because he had not seen it.

Growl
after bathroom incident, including one 5 o'clock morning Virginia EP 286

Door or window contact in Virginia

After the window incident the house was repeatedly smacked, cameras caught nothing and seemed avoided, and an access door was found open. One 5am morning the girlfriend heard window pecking then saw a big black arm pass the front-door window. The witness found piled weeds at the door and two muddy handprints at that bedroom window measuring about eight to nine inches long with slightly wider fingers.

Door or window contactPartial sightingHandprintProperty disturbanceFootsteps