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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 in Florida
The guest recounted newspaper reports of a town near the panhandle attacked by a wild man that bothered livestock and people. A posse shot and caged the roughly six foot creature and sent it by stagecoach to the governor, then to a mental institution where it was shaved. Records stop after arrival and its fate is unknown.
Property disturbance in Kentucky
The guest mentioned a recent news clipping about a sighting at Mammoth Cave National Park where a camp was torn up and a hunter fired into brush. Details were vague and recalled secondhand on air.
Sasquatch sighting in Oregon
A boy camping with a man was awakened by cries and seized by a tall hairy figure that carried him rapidly to a thicket. They descended into an illuminated cave strewn with bones where a woman appeared. The boy escaped through the entrance with a knife and reached miners.
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 near Eureka, California
A resident fired into brush thinking it was a bear, and a wild man-like figure came out on all fours toward his wife. He fired again and it fled. That night it tried to force the door and window until shot at again, and the family left.
Sasquatch sighting near Rumsey, California
Two men camped in a valley found man-like tracks and followed them to a ravine. They watched a large hairy creature beating its chest, displaying strength by throwing a huge rock, near a foul cave with bones. They left without approaching.
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.
Sasquatch sighting near San Diego County
Two hunters entered an isolated canyon noted for murders and saw a large hairy biped moving upright. After it turned to show a human-like face, they shot it. They then found a dug cave containing human bones and animal remains.
Sasquatch sighting in California
Two prospectors were separated when one heard a whistle and saw a hair-covered man-like figure on a boulder. He aimed his gun and spoke to it in several languages without reply. It stopped as if recognizing danger, then fled over a hill.
Sasquatch sighting in California
An old hunter camped for several days found his fire scattered. He hid and watched two hairy bipeds visit the camp and play with burning sticks. They whistled, scattered the fire, then left together.
Sasquatch sighting near Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania
A teenage boy working in backwoods heard what he thought was his younger brother whistling and approaching. He saw a small human-like being covered with black hair, tried to shoot it but trembled, and the being stepped behind a tree then ran off whistling. The boy returned home frightened and upset when recalling it.