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Historical account near Rutherford, Pennsylvania (1888)
A two-year-old playing with two other children disappeared when the companions briefly went to seek flowers and returned to find her gone. Over a hundred searchers and later torch parties scoured woods and fields without finding a trace. Newspaper follow-ups suggested she may have been carried away by a wild being recently seen in the locality.
Animal behaviour near Armstrong County (1881)
A gorilla-like monster was reported visiting a house and carrying a dog away into the woods. It later allegedly attacked and badly wounded a large hound. A party was organizing to capture it.
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.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1876)
In 1876 a man towing a boat in Woodward's Bay saw movement in beach grass. He approached a small hair-covered figure about three feet tall with longer head hair that had been under a log. It stood and ran away too fast to follow.
Sasquatch sighting near Inyo County (1871)
Teamsters camping by a lake reported a ghost-like naked figure stealing scraps and plunging into the water when spoken to or shot at. In fall 1871 men saw it clearly as a large hairy man eating scraps. Investigators later found a cave with rags, bones, and a dead naked man.
Old newspaper article (Titusville Morning Herald - Pennsylvania) about sightings near Orestimba Creek in the Diablo (Devil) Mountains
The supplied sections reference an 1871 newspaper article titled "The Wild Man - What is He?" No details of the claimed encounter itself are included in the supplied text. The follow-up notes clarify the reported location as near Oristemba Creek south of Antioch.
Sasquatch sighting near Paraclifton, Arkansas (1856)
A newspaper correspondent described a party tracking a famous wild man to a frozen lake where dogs lost the trail. A rider watched the figure break ice with its arms, come ashore and shake itself. When headed off, it dragged the hunter down, gouged his eyes and bit him, destroyed the saddle and bridle, then rode the horse toward the mountains using a sapling as a club.
Sasquatch sighting in Alaska (1850)
A San Francisco newspaper article from the 1850s reportedly described giant creatures coming out of the hills on the Kenai Peninsula. The creatures were said to capture humans and eat them.
Sasquatch sighting
Subsequent incidents occurred and were covered in Canadian news but were not submitted directly by local witnesses.
Howl
The initial pond witness reported hearing howling and other unusual nighttime sounds from the woods.
Unidentified sound near Addison, New York
Neighbors reported hearing noises and sometimes smelling a stench from the remote pond area.
Sasquatch sighting
Two months later a woman reportedly almost struck a Sasquatch with her vehicle on Route 965 near Hell's Kitchen.
Tracks
A neighbor's yard had footprints that were covered in the news during a winter rash of sightings.
Sasquatch sighting
A newspaper article published in December described a large hairy creature running beside a car on a road a few miles from the tracking location.
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.
Scream
The family reports being frightened three times since September with nighttime screams, torn fences, dumped feed containers, ripped doors and spooked animals.
Sasquatch sighting
In 1965 a driver with eight relatives claimed a hairy figure struck the side of their car and tried to climb onto the roof on Mental Road.
Sasquatch sighting
In 1965 a mother and daughter claimed a hairy figure leaped onto their moving car on Mental Road and grabbed the daughter by the hair.
Sasquatch sighting
A police officer reportedly saw a creature cross the road in front of him near the WMCA decades earlier.
Sasquatch sighting
Fourteen or more people on an airboat reportedly saw a large hair-covered animal walking upright near an island.