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Sasquatch sighting near Louisville, Kentucky (1960)
As teenagers, the witness and her boyfriend parked in a dirt cul-de-sac in a wooded park to spend time together. They heard heavy footsteps, snapping twigs and rustling circling them in the dark but could see nothing. When they drove away, the witness looked back and saw a tall, broad, long-armed silhouette step into the light under a street lamp, prompting them to flee. She later heard that a woman's mutilated body was found in the park, after which the park was placed under a nighttime curfew.
UFO sighting in Maryland (1960)
The witness's grandmother reportedly woke at night and saw a hovering disc illuminating the sky and casting light down over the farm woods at a distance. The telling places it in the 1960s or 1970s. The witness also recalls her mentioning balls of light in the woods.
Cryptid sighting (1960)
A family bought an old homestead where the son repeatedly said little people bothered him in the forest, horses refused the barn, and the barn smelled foul. One evening during dinner the son pointed to a bay window and the father saw a three-foot-tall hairy human-like being by an outdoor spigot apparently chattering to others below. It made eye contact, widened its eyes, leaned back, and dropped from view. The father later found a rock-covered hole in the barn opening to caverns with strong odor, and a neighbor warned that dwarves lived under the old ruined house.
Sasquatch sighting in Tennessee (1959)
The guest relayed an older brother's account from years earlier of walking back from a store when a hairy man stepped out of the woods. The figure stopped in front of him, looked him over, grunted, and continued into the woods. The brother reportedly told the story for the rest of his life.
Cryptid sighting near Port McNeil, British Columbia (1958)
The guest says his father saw a double-headed sea serpent outside Port McNeil in 1958. He links it to the year of the record sockeye return on the British Columbia coast and to stories of a dinosaur-type Belle Isle Sound monster.
Sasquatch sighting near Elkhorn City, Kentucky (1958)
The guest's teenage mother and aunt were sitting outside a general store when they noticed a hair-covered figure walking on a ridge by an old sheep pasture. The store owner came out and also watched it. After watching them for two to three minutes while hunkered down, the figure stood, walked away along the ridge looking back, and disappeared into timber.
Sasquatch sighting in Louisiana (1955)
As a youth hunting with a small dog, the witness followed the dog down a creek and found a long dark form lying in a dugout in the bank. Looking closer the witness saw feet, a bleeding leg with sand piled on it, breathing and grumbling, and a large hand thrown behind it like a resting person. Frightened, the witness carried the dog away quietly then ran home.
Sasquatch sighting near Silverton, Oregon (1955)
The witness was driving with his girlfriend to a high school dance when a dark hairy biped emerged from a grass field and walked diagonally into the road in front of the car. The driver slowed and swerved around it while it turned to look at them twice, showing no fear or expression, then left the road into a field. The couple fled shaken, and the passenger refused to discuss it afterward.
Tracks (1950)
A logger returned in the morning to find a bulldozer badly damaged with smashed windows, torn engine compartment and dents all around. Large boot-like prints were noted in the solid ground. He attributed the damage to what he called the big man.
Movement only in Kentucky (1950)
The guest's mother said that when she was a child staying with her cousin in a house next to a creek, they would hear something large moving up and down the creek lifting and moving rocks with stomping and strange noises. Dogs in the area would hide under the porch during these visits. The girls would stay in bed terrified listening.
Property disturbance (1948)
As a boy, the coworker and his family experienced prolonged territorial activity at their ranch. The creatures tried doors, dug under the house, got on the roof, and used distraction. Several loggers on the land were killed, including one who vanished leaving only a torn bloody shirt.
Second-hand story about a Stony Indian woman's encounter.
Wagon occupants traveling on a dirt road near a lake stopped when a large hair-covered human-like figure was seen standing in the road ahead. One occupant covered the others in the wagon and the group turned the vehicle around to leave the area.
Sasquatch sighting in California (1943)
The guest's grandfather and his brother were in the Bald Hill area during logging-era hunting. While sleeping in their car, a large ape-like creature bent down and looked in the window, leaving handprints. The grandfather kept photos of the prints and never forgot the incident.
Sisters observe tall hairy creature running away from them
Two witnesses were going through a shelter belt to collect cows from a pasture when they heard rustling in the trees. Thinking it was a cow, they turned and saw a very tall hairy biped running away from them. The witnesses then ran in the opposite direction.
A tall black creature covered with hair and very muscular was seen walking quickly across a clearing
In fall 1941 a couple picnicked in the foothills of Mt. Adams and were driving out of a clearing in the afternoon. The woman looked back and saw a tall, black, hair-covered and muscular creature walking quickly across the clearing toward the forest. Her companion slowed the car but did not see it before it disappeared into the forest.
Cryptid sighting near Lake Wales, Florida (1940)
An older woman wrote that she and her uncle set traps for disappearing oranges and caught a tiny hair-covered naked man speaking an unknown language. Police put him in an orange crate, then the house was pelted with sticks, stones and oranges by dozens of similar beings until he was released. A later police worker recalled the crate incident.
Sasquatch sighting in Manitoba (1940)
An elderly mail carrier told the witness he was returning by horse and buggy from a dam community in the 1940s when a tall hair-covered wild man came from the bush screaming. His horse bolted and the creature ran alongside the wagon. He said he kept his head down and pretended not to see or hear it, which he believed saved him.
Sighting at night by a group of coon hunters; Screams were also heard in the area
Late at night while coon-hunting, four men waited by a campfire when their dogs stayed close and acted frightened. They then saw a huge white-haired figure standing about 30 yards away watching them. The men left the area quickly without further interaction.
Vocalization (1934)
The teller's grandfather was riding a mule at night in 1934 while courting his future wife. Something in the woods startled or spoke to the mule, causing it to bolt hard for the barn. The rider held on prone and crashed into the barn wall, destroying a candle lantern.
Footsteps in [name withheld] (1930)
The guest's grandmother was walking the guest's father as a child to school before daylight along a dirt road bordered by a tall solid wood fence in the Big Thicket. Something large and heavy paced them on the other side of the fence, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. They turned back halfway and abandoned school that day to avoid meeting it where the fence ended.