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Cryptid sighting near West Echo, New Jersey (1973)
Two youths walking home at night saw what looked like a horse under a streetlight. When one joked about riding it, the animal reared, showed wings, and chased them. They heard hooves behind them as they fled home, and fresh scratches were found on a newly painted door the next morning.
Sasquatch sighting in Pennsylvania (1973)
A young driver parked at night could not start his car while something brushed against it unseen for hours. When he fled on foot he ran directly into a very large hairy biped that beat him down. He required a week in hospital and his car later started for police with the back door open.
Sasquatch sighting (1971)
A former sheriff told the guest he and deputies were asked to shoot creatures living in a canyon. Helicopters pushed a female and her young into a clearing where the deputy shot the female in the chest and then shot the young in the head. The man kept photos and an audio cassette of the operation hidden in his lunchbox.
Sasquatch sighting in Ohio (1971)
Two men running dogs without guns approached strange barking at a fence. A creature stood up, blocked their lights with a hand, then followed them through cornfields to a field edge before turning back. Next day footprints and a handprint were found in creek mud and trailing dogs refused to follow.
Sasquatch sighting (1971)
A former law enforcement officer told two missionaries that in 1971 he took part in an agency-directed helicopter operation to kill Sasquatch living in a canyon in the Dakotas. Two smaller helicopters drove the animals while his crew photographed a female and a youngster from the air, recorded audio, then shot the youngster in the head and shot the female point-blank in the chest from a rope ladder. The female screamed and fled up the canyon with an unknown fate, while the youngster's body was bagged, netted under a helicopter and flown out. The officer said he kept the photos and cassette hidden and had told no one else.
Sasquatch sighting (1971)
An ailing homeowner told two visiting missionaries about a directed operation in the Dakotas in 1971 when he served as a sheriff's officer. From helicopters, crews pushed creatures out of a canyon toward a bait station, photographed them, and shot a female and her young. The narrator kept hidden photos and an audio cassette documenting the shooting and the female's scream.
Unidentified sound near Milton, West Virginia (1970)
A relative and companion reportedly saw a gray hairy bipedal creature drinking at the creek and running up the hollow in the late 1970s.
Sasquatch sighting (1970)
Two men came to the witness's farmhouse saying they had just had a nighttime car encounter on a dirt road. A huge black figure stepped into the headlights in front of the car and appeared to have deer antlers. The witness later thought they likely saw a Bigfoot carrying a deer, and the men refused to discuss it further.
Sasquatch sighting near Phoenix, Arizona (1970)
The guest, then working as desk sergeant, says a three-man security alert team came into the office shaken. They reported a bipedal figure ran in from the desert toward their parked truck, jumped clear over the truck bed, and continued on as they drove away.
Sasquatch sighting (1970)
The guest relays what a cowboy friend who lived near the river told him. The friend said he had seen Bigfoot wade and walk across the river at the same low spot where the guest saw the light, a number of times in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sasquatch sighting (1970)
A group riding in a bus in the 1970s heard sounds like a lion roaring, then a creature jumped onto the hood and looked through the large front window at the passengers. The front passenger saw it grin and show its teeth before it jumped off with enough force to shake the bus. The witness described it as six to six and a half feet tall, skinny, and intermediate between a chimpanzee and a person.
Sasquatch sighting (1970)
A woman recalled riding in the open bed of a pickup truck as a child when a creature ran out of the forest toward the truck. The creature reached for her as she screamed. Her father fired a shot during the incident.
Fisherman witnesses bigfoot cross the road in front of his car
Shortly before dawn on a foggy morning, the witness was driving toward a fishing area when headlights illuminated a large fur-covered creature in the road. The creature moved across the highway and leapt up a steep roadside embankment estimated at 14 feet high. The witness was badly shaken, stopped at a cafe, and later reported the incident to county authorities.
Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1969)
Two lifelong friends were target shooting with small-caliber rifles along a river while a nearby reservoir was filling and flooding caves. After one rifle jammed, they returned to their car when they heard limbs snapping and saw small trees swaying and breaking. They circled back to the riverbank clearing and came face to face with a hair-covered creature standing on a deadfall, which one of them shot multiple times in the chest. The creature fell silent, then revived and ran one way while the two men fled the other, later tracking it and sparking local monster lore.
Sasquatch sighting (1968)
A boy about ten arrived at the farmhouse after dark, hysterical. He said he took a wrong road by a swamp and rock quarry, saw a giant hairy man-like figure covered in white hair come from the swamp, and fled by bike to the house. The father later drove the boy back to his grandparents.
Sasquatch sighting near Ferndale, Washington (1967)
The witness's brother was playing in woods near home as a child when he encountered what he first thought was a decayed bear. The animal then stood upright, prompting him to flee. He later discussed the incident with the witness as an adult.
Sasquatch sighting near Ear Falls, Ontario (1967)
A group on a musky fishing trip in Canada heard loud roars from the woods that grew closer. Two giant black beasts emerged fighting, tumbling down the bank into shallow water, slapping, grappling and biting. One prevailed and left into the woods while the other lay motionless before later disappearing.
"Brinson Monster"
In 1966 or 1967, several high school students parked at an abandoned farm in the evening reported seeing a tall light-colored upright animal with red eyes watching them. The story spread through the high school where it became known as the Brinson Monster. The narrator notes people at the time did not connect it to Bigfoot or Sasquatch.
Tall creature seen by witness
The witness's father and a companion were fishing at Chambers Creek when a large hairy creature estimated at eight to ten feet tall appeared before them and roared while displaying its arms. Frightened, the two men ran to the truck and drove back to town. The account notes the creature was reportedly seen by others afterward.
Sasquatch sighting (1960)
The guest's grandfather claimed a coworker took him by car to a woods clearing with a silver disc, flew to Mars, and showed him tall hair-covered human-faced beings emerging from underground. When he tried to approach them he felt zapped and next woke at home, and the coworker never returned to work.