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Sasquatch sighting in Texas (1983)
The guest's cousin rode a new bicycle down a dirt road near the grandparents' home when the chain came off by a creek crossing. While trying to fix it, the cousin heard something in the woods and saw something lean out from behind a pine tree. The cousin abandoned the bicycle and ran back to the house in distress.
UFO sighting in Connecticut (1983)
While working evening and midnight shifts as an officer the witness says the department was repeatedly called about silent lights in the sky, often described as five lights in a triangle that disappeared. The airport reported nothing on radar and the calls were laughed off.
nighttime road crossing sighting
Late at night in 1982, a driver and a passenger were traveling on a wooded highway when the driver braked suddenly. The driver said a tall, dark, hairy biped was striding across the road in the headlights about 75 feet away and continued on. The passenger had been asleep and did not see it, being awakened by the braking and shout.
Tracks (1981)
A man went to a remote target-shooting pit after his friend did not return from sighting in a rifle. He found blood, a hat, a bent rifle and huge barefoot footprints on a hilltop and around the truck. The friend's body was folded under the dashboard inside the truck. Police were called and the death was reported as a bear attack.
Sasquatch sighting near Round Mountain, California (1981)
About two and a half hours after the porch sighting, the mother drove home on the muddy road and saw a large upright figure standing by the road in her headlights. She fled at speed to the house shouting she had seen something huge. The next day food left on the porch was emptied without moving the can, with large footprints below the porch that were later cast.
Sasquatch sighting near Round Mountain, California (1981)
In the evening after dark, the witness's sister went into a bedroom to let a cat out, flipped the curtain and light on, and found a large hairy face with glowing eyes staring through the glass from less than two feet away. She screamed and froze, and by the time others ran in from the living room the figure had leapt off the porch and vanished. She later described height to the top of the door frame, dirty matted hair and a wide face.
Man sees large creature while working the late shift at a mine.
The witness's relative was working alone on the graveyard shift at a mine, checking pond equipment on nightly rounds. After locking a building and walking toward the truck, he reportedly saw a huge bipedal creature he insisted was not a bear. Frightened and crying, he ran back inside and called relatives by phone to come help and stay on the line to keep him calm.
Possible approach to a dwelling between Calcutta and East Liverpool
The witness was sitting inside a mobile home with an infant after dark when a dog began barking and would not leave its house. After turning out the lights and waiting, the witness saw a tall figure approach the trailer window breathing heavily and froze until it walked away. The next morning the witness found paths of flattened brush leading toward a creek bottom.
Two witnesses observe creature on edge of forest
Two coworkers claimed to see a tall, dark, hair-covered biped accompanied by a black dog at a garden center entrance in Mashpee in the fall of 1980 or 1981 between 2 and 3 a.m. They reported extreme shock and drove away at high speed. The area was described as adjacent to the largest forest tract on Cape Cod near an Army training base.
The "Big Muddy Monster" flap of Murphysboro
In the late 1970s to early 1980s, residents around the Big Muddy River reported a foul-smelling, hairy hominid-like creature. Witnesses described seeing and hearing it near the river and finding footprints, with size and color accounts varying. The writer compiled these secondhand accounts and notes the creature was never reported as violent.
Hunters witness a large, dark, manlike creature pull a stump from the ground.
Two hunters walking toward a river heard a splash and saw a dark, muscular, hairy creature with its back to them. The creature pulled a cypress stump from the mud, threw it into the river, then turned to look at them and walked briskly away along the riverbank. The men then found large human-like footprints at the spot where it had stood.
Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1980)
In 1980 two men claiming to be Smithsonian field agents visited the grandmother's farm for two days after magazine coverage. They toured the garden and orchard, noted twisted limbs, cast footprints and a supposed sitting impression, collected hair and produce, and recorded audio. At night the family showed them figures with a spotlight, with up to three seen, and the visitors played a scream recording that was followed by distant chatter.
Sasquatch sighting in Georgia (1980)
A farm worker on a night irrigation check saw a large round shape balled on the ground that stood up to about eight feet with hair all over and a man-like face. He struggled to free his truck from wet field while it walked toward him, then drove out dragging wire. He refused to check irrigation again and still avoids going out after dark.
Sasquatch sighting near Sackett's Harbor, New York (1980)
After cattle broke through the fence, the witness's brother and a friend went deeper into the woods to find a missing cow. They came running out saying they had seen big monkey people and that one chased them.
Road crossing in Kentucky (1980)
That summer the witness's stepdad and a neighbor saw something cross the road while driving home from a horse auction. Both men were visibly scared but refused to discuss what they saw.
Sasquatch sighting near Tallahena (1980)
The guest retells a story told to him by a young coworker about a childhood encounter in the 1980s. The coworker and his brother had built a fort near home where they played daily. One day a large hairy figure rose up and spread trees apart to look at them from about twelve feet away, after which the boys never returned to the fort.
Sasquatch sighting in Utah (1980)
The guest's mother was waiting on an idling snowmobile atop a hill in the high Uintas while the stepfather walked up. She noticed a bulky figure to her left that she first took for another snowmobiler but then judged too large and bulky. When she looked away to call out and looked back, the figure was gone, and she did not mention it until that evening.
Sasquatch sighting near Fairbanks, Alaska (1980)
A long-time mine operator recalled working at the bottom of a long metal tunnel when he sensed a presence and looked up to see a tall figure bent over to peer through the tall doorway. When he waved and shouted, the figure quickly left. He later realized its height must have exceeded the doorway because it had to stoop.
Sasquatch sighting (1980)
A friend of the witness's father was photographing deer in his backyard when a strange upright figure was captured. The witness later saw the print with his brother and described it as a skinny upright teddy-bear-like figure with monkey-like facial features and gray skin around the mouth. The picture could not be scanned and was described as floating around among acquaintances.
Vocalization in Colorado (1980)
In the early 80s the father camped alone at a secluded bow camp and heard something large walk in talking gibberish like a drunk man and root through camp. It circled the tent and pressed a finger down on the canvas, leaving a half-moon cut, then left toward a second babbling voice on the hill. On a later return visit a green aspen blocked the road with no wind and structures were noted.