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Seven-foot tall creature seen by two youths; a local newspaper later carries story about other incidents in the same area
Two boys walked from their houses into nearby woods toward a creekbed to shoot BB guns while footsteps seemed to parallel them and close to nearby. At the bottom of the creekbed they looked toward the sounds and saw a roughly seven-foot-tall hair-covered figure whose face they could not discern. Both fled home in fear and said the figure did not follow them.
Sasquatch sighting in Oklahoma (1975)
The guest's grandparents noticed meat and vegetables disappearing from an outdoor wash house over several days. One night the family smelled a strong musky odor in the living room, and the grandmother saw a large hairy figure squatted outside a picture window. The guest's father chased it as it hopped yard fences, snapped a railroad-tie post, and disappeared over a hill. For about a week afterward the grandmother heard something tampering with the wash-house door at night.
UFO sighting in Tennessee (1974)
The guest's grandmother told him that when returning home with four children in the mid-1970s, she saw a thin disc hovering silently over a bush in the front yard. It was motionless and made no noise. She grabbed the baby and hurried inside.
Sasquatch sighting near Ohio Pyle, Pennsylvania (1974)
A woman living in a mountain cabin heard cans knocked about and found a huge hairy creature on her porch with arms raised. She fired a shotgun and it vanished in a flash of light, while a relative encountered several similar beings on the road and a large hovering object was seen over the woods.
Odor near Davie, Florida (1974)
A local friend who swam in the turnaround where alligators would not go searched underwater and found an opening. He swam about 100 feet into a cavern, surfaced under the area used for bikes and horses, and encountered an overpowering stench that burned his eyes and made breathing hard. He believed he had found the creature's lair and asked the witness to keep it secret.
Sasquatch sighting near Davie, Florida (1974)
About a week after the first sighting, gunshots were heard from the nearby horse stable. The witness rode over and learned a large creature had grabbed a wild horse from behind. The horse kicked free, jumped the corral, and fled while the rancher shot at the creature. Next day the horse showed hand-like pressure marks, not claw scratches, on its hindquarters.
Sasquatch sighting (1973)
A woman at a gravesite heard baby-like crying and saw a large being at the woods edge moving toward her. She fled by car to a relative's farm where similar creatures frightened animals and a shot was fired before police were called.
Sasquatch sighting in Pennsylvania (1973)
A hunter running dogs at night saw a dark figure he first thought was a person, then recognized as an ape-like creature. He fired a pistol at it believing he hit it and heard it run off unseen.
Sasquatch sighting near Uniontown, Pennsylvania (1973)
About fifteen people watched a huge spherical object descend over a pasture. Two tall hairy bipeds with glowing green eyes appeared by a fence while a witness fired tracers and live rounds with no effect, then the object vanished and responders found a large glowing area on the ground.
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.
Scream in Oklahoma (1973)
The witness's father as a teenager went to a river with his older brother, younger sister, and the brother's girlfriend near dark. Something across the river crashed through brush like a heavy animal, then yelled, screamed, broke branches and pushed things over. The group fled in a vehicle, realized they left the youngest sister, drove back and found her running up the road screaming.
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.
Screams terrify campers near Mt. St. Helens
Five people were camping together at dawn when they heard rapid crashing and thrashing through nearby underbrush with snapping twigs. This was followed by a loud, high-pitched scream described as like a woman screaming, estimated to be 30-50 yards away. The group was terrified and left the area immediately.
Youngster frightened by "monster" peeping in window
A young boy resting in the upper bunk of a small cabin heard a strange animal-like call followed by footsteps and rustling outside. When he looked through the open shutter window he saw a dark, very hairy face with glowing eyes staring in, which fled when he screamed. The family later estimated anything peering into that high window from the sloped ground would have to be about seven to eight feet tall, but they found no trace the next day.
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.
Property disturbance in Montana (1970)
Over several years in the 1970s a large smelly intruder rummaged garbage, trashed yards and broke into houses taking food. One family was visited almost nightly and treated it as routine. Residents locked doors, dogs acted cowardly, and meetings were held.
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.