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More sightings of a strange creature centering around the town of Ottosen. Other stories told about strange sounds, footprints and animal mutilatations.
A witness doing dishes at night looked up to see a hairy-headed creature with burning red eyes staring through a nearby window for about three minutes. Frozen with fear, the witness screamed, and the creature fled into the darkness outside the rural home.
A hitchhiker reports seeing a bigfoot in a forested area off U.S. 441
A hitchhiker reported encountering a Bigfoot-like creature in a lightly wooded area south of Belleview in darkness. The creature was described as taller than the six-foot witness, brown and black in color, with a horrible garbage-like odor. The account comes from a 1977 newspaper article which notes the sighting was not substantiated.
Newspaper article about "The Lockridge Monster."
A farm wife driving past an abandoned farmyard just before dark reported seeing a hair-covered creature with a monkey-like face. She left the area quickly without lingering. The report was part of a series of accounts of a bear-like animal in a turkey-farming community that also included turkey losses and large tracks.
Sasquatch sighting near Columbus, Indiana (1974)
Two women stopped in Mill Race Park in the evening to eat and talk when a very tall creature came from the woods to their car. It beat on the windshield and tried to bite through the glass while they screamed, then the driver started the car and they fled to report it to police.
Sasquatch sighting near Columbus, Indiana (1974)
Four teenage girls were at Mill Race Park in the afternoon when one spotted a large green hairy bipedal creature between trees near the boat ramp. The group fled the park immediately and reported the sighting to law enforcement.
Sasquatch sighting near Caddo, Texas (1964)
An unnamed woman and her son were out walking and reported seeing the same creature as others that day. No names were given in the newspaper. No further detail was preserved in the retelling.
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 Evanston, Illinois (1919)
A newspaper article described a place called Devil's Hole in lonely woods where a thick-bodied, long-armed hairy half-beast called the Gorilla Moron was said to haunt. It was claimed to have attacked dozens of women within a year, leaving many unconscious. The specific attack on two student nurses detailed in the same article was stated by the reteller to have been by human muggers, separate from the hairy-figure reports.
UFO sighting in North Carolina (1913)
Local observers reported red lights seen nightly just above the horizon. The lights were said to appear at fixed evening times and the information was attributed to a longtime local resident.
Sasquatch sighting near Sixes, Oregon (1904)
In 1904 near Sixes miners reported a wild man seen three times in three weeks. Two men heard something walk around and shake their cabin corner, heard a frightful noise, saw it walk away, shot and missed. Later a similar visit at dawn ended with the creature hurling a four-pound rock after being shot at.
Sasquatch sighting near Franklin County
About a week later another person reportedly saw the same thing in the same area, with a drawing shown on local television news.
Sasquatch sighting
A local shop owner recalled seeing a distant ape-like creature as a young boy while hunting with a sibling.
Sasquatch sighting
Additional resident accounts of the creature were said to extend back decades.
Sasquatch sighting near Long Beach, California
Two small girls awoke to find an ape-like intruder in their bedroom and screamed. Their father rushed in in time to see a huge shaggy figure climbing out the window and escaping. Nothing was reported stolen.
Sasquatch sighting near Redding, California
A family was frightened by a naked long-haired wild man roaming near their home. A stone fell near a playing child, who looked up to see the figure beckoning and making sounds. The child ran inside to his mother.
Sasquatch sighting
Two women investigating barking dogs reportedly saw the creature a block away and retreated when it stepped toward them.
Sasquatch sighting
Two men accompanied by a dog reportedly glimpsed a large animal near the building before the dog ran home.
Sasquatch sighting
Two women who went to check on the frightened children reportedly saw a hairy head looking from behind a building.
Sasquatch sighting
A child walking to a relative's house late at night reportedly came face to face with the beast and retreated screaming.
Sasquatch sighting
Three children reportedly heard scratching in buildings near a sales barn, saw a square-headed face in a window, then watched it leave toward a cornfield.