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Newspaper article about a track find and investigation
A press report said three large footprint-like impressions were found on a Monday in the wooded Blue Hills area near Rice Lake. An investigator described the impressions as about 16 to 17.5 inches long and 8 inches wide, with one showing five toes and a stride of about 4.5 feet, suggesting a Bigfoot. He said he would do more preliminary searching before deciding on a full-scale expedition.
Reference to a local newspaper article about tracks found near Bautista Road
A local newspaper reportedly published an article about footprints found in the Anza area near Bautista Road. The current author did not claim to have seen the footprints directly but referenced the article. No date, discoverer, or description of the prints beyond their location is provided.
Large tracks found investigated by Federal authorities
A contractor doing roadwork found about half a dozen large footlike prints near a bulldozer in a remote part of the Ocala National Forest. Law enforcement and forestry personnel made casts of the prints, described as 17 inches long with an arch, five toes and a four-foot stride. Most investigators viewed the prints as a possible hoax but ordered casts because of lingering doubt.
Property disturbance near El Reno, Oklahoma (1967)
A farmer found his chicken coop door ripped off with a bloody handprint on it and hairs, footprints and blood left behind. Several chickens were killed without being eaten, and the door was taken to a zoo for examination.
Tracks in Washington (1924)
Five miners prospecting near Mount St. Helens found large tracks and later shot at a creature watching near a tree. That night multiple creatures attacked their cabin, throwing rocks and trying to enter from all sides including the roof. The men fired back until just before dawn when the creatures left.
Sasquatch sighting near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1921)
A woman saw a four-foot object moving along a rear fence and fetched a neighbor, who shot it with a shotgun and saw it drop. When approached, it jumped to hind legs and chased the shooter back into the house, then left toward another town. Strange footprints were later reported nearby.
Sasquatch sighting near Seattle, Washington (1914)
A laborer picking berries was attacked by a hairy giant called Bosco that clawed his throat and struck him with a 25-pound window weight. Witnesses, tracks, bitten trees, eaten dog remains, and asphalt footprints were reported. The creature was seen swimming, eating fish, and peering into buildings.
Sasquatch sighting near Springfield, Pennsylvania (1906)
Residents reported a hair-covered animal sometimes upright and sometimes moving on all fours at racehorse speed with a leaping stride. Heavy steel bear traps set and wired to an oak were found sprung with bait eaten, wire snapped, ground torn, and traps dragged rods away. Later explanations blaming a dog or disguised man were followed by continued reports.
Sasquatch sighting near Halstead, Pennsylvania (1895)
A very tall hair-covered wild woman was reported riding a taken balance wheel and encountering a peddler with a horse. She allegedly broke the horse's neck with one jerk, rendered the peddler unconscious, and dragged the horse to the woods where bones were later found. Pursuers found huge footprints and piles of rattlesnake skins but did not locate her.
Vocalization near Morgantown, Pennsylvania (1881)
A party out driving with horses through a hill pass had a lead horse become unmanageable and show terror as a wild cry came from the thicket, refusing to pass. Local farmers also reported livestock depredations and peculiar footprints in snow that searchers could not resolve. The newspaper presented the story without conclusion.
Tracks near Rumsey, California
A trapper following a drag trail found a partly eaten heifer covered with brush and large clawed tracks. That night his dogs hid in fear while unearthly screams moved away from his cabin. He sought help to hunt the animal.
Tracks near Del Norte County
In earlier years workers noticed large human-like footprints on soft soil of new logging roads in the same area.