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November 2024 Kentucky #cc19accb-efaf-4683-bbfc-3985e810481f

Animal behaviour in Kentucky (2024)

The guest's roommate was hunting on leased private land about a mile and a half away the same afternoon. The woods were lively then went dead silent for a few minutes while he felt dread and drew his gun. After a few minutes the dread lifted and the woods became active again.

Animal behaviour
1995 Constance, Boone County, Kentucky Class C #2365

Strange "yowling" sounds heard behind home in Constance

Friends living by the Ohio River reported hearing loud yowling from the woods behind their house that they could not identify as a known animal. They also reported hearing something crashing through underbrush on a steep hillside. No visual sighting or footprints were reported, and the reporter relaying the account noted it could be a known animal such as a coyote, bobcat, or bear.

VocalizationUnidentified soundPossible misidentification
1980 Kentucky #6e9c6cb9-4e1d-4cc4-92d8-28bd1d0c15df

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.

Partial sightingTracksHairChatterTree break
later on that summer Kentucky #9bdb0699-2477-4b65-b7ca-a51f1a3bc0f2

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.

Road crossing
1975–1979 Kentucky #6e9c6cb9-4e1d-4cc4-92d8-28bd1d0c15df

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky (1975)

The guest's mother arrived at his grandmother's farm at night and was hurried inside after being told a tall hairy creature was nearby. Family members then used a spotlight to show her a figure stepping out of the light along the tree line. Over the following years the family reported repeated nighttime visits marked by forest silence, strong odor, screams and chatter, plus damage to orchard trees and garden crops.

Partial sightingOdorScreamChatterTree break +1
1975 Basket, Henderson County, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/20/sc-ep55-spottsville-monster-part2

Sasquatch sighting near Basket, Kentucky (1975)

The guest recounts that his mother was outside at the family farmhouse when she saw a creature run and jump over a fence. He says she saw the same creature again when she came out onto the front porch. The sightings occurred early in a prolonged period of disturbances at the property.

Full-body sighting
1969–1970 Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/FKgzPJcCl-LD7jEndUrZ-Fc4pEQLLYAlJdZ35UatlYQ

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.

Full-body sightingTree break
1960–1964 Louisville, Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/FKgzPJcCl-LD7jEndUrZ-Fc4pEQLLYAlJdZ35UatlYQ

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.

SilhouetteFootsteps
summer 1958 Elkhorn City, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/07/17/sc-ep236-its-skin-was-charcoal-gray

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.

Full-body sighting
1950–1969 Kentucky #cb946455-d79d-4e6c-8c7d-fb639f566e42

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.

Movement onlyUnidentified sound
Date unknown Kentucky #6e9c6cb9-4e1d-4cc4-92d8-28bd1d0c15df

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

The guest's mother was alone in the attached garage bottle-feeding her dog's puppies at night. She noticed light through the garage window was blocked and saw a figure close enough to distinguish its bare chest. She placed the puppies in a box, took them inside and shut the door.

Partial sighting
Date unknown Kentucky #6e9c6cb9-4e1d-4cc4-92d8-28bd1d0c15df

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

The guest's hunter uncle joined family members to look for the creature near the pond after dark. A figure stood up very close with its arms raised and the uncle fired a carbine, believing he hit it under the arms. The creature made a loud noise and fled, leaving fatty bloody material but no blood trail, only footprints and broken vegetation.

Full-body sightingVocalizationTracksTree break
during tobacco field work in farmhouse period Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/20/sc-ep55-spottsville-monster-part2

Growl in Kentucky

The guest says the creature walked up on his father while the father was in the tobacco field. The father heard a low constant growl approaching that he first mistook for an airplane, and the family dogs fled. The father ran to the house, and firing a shotgun in the direction indicated by a young relative in the house.

GrowlFootsteps
in broad daylight during farmhouse period Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/20/sc-ep55-spottsville-monster-part2

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

The guest relays his brother's daylight sighting at the farm. The brother described an eight to nine foot tall hair-covered being with close set eyes and a square jaw. The hair was described as reddish brown, patchy and gray tinged as if old.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Henderson County, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/20/sc-ep55-spottsville-monster-part2

Partial sighting near Henderson County

The guest states that the next door neighbor bumped into the creature inside a barn one day. No further visual details are given in that mention. The neighbor later became the person the family called for help.

Partial sighting
about two years after December 2012 incident Kentucky #203545a6-d924-4f5c-bacf-143167428913

Movement only in Kentucky

The witness's older brother, solo hammock camping on a nearby trail, was awoken by feeling a hand push his shoulder and swing the hammock. He sat up, turned on his light, and saw nothing around.

Movement only
Date unknown Kentucky #9bdb0699-2477-4b65-b7ca-a51f1a3bc0f2

Movement only in Kentucky

Years later while driving near the old farm, the witness's girlfriend thought she glimpsed something white moving into the woods near a curve. The witness was telling her about the white creatures at the time.

Movement only
Date unknown Owensboro, Kentucky #4a2bd381-ea8b-47d0-bf1e-5514668f86e1

Sasquatch sighting near Owensboro, Kentucky

A hunter told the guest that from a ridge-top deer stand at Honda Hill, after shooting deer, a figure looking like a man in a gorilla suit repeatedly ran out, threw the 200-pound deer over its shoulder, and ran off. It happened three times and the hunter was reluctant to return.

Full-body sighting
when mother was a little kid, about 30 years before guest's encounter Kentucky #4369c15d-f856-44da-a531-37c1124d7dcf

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

When the mother was young, the family was working in their hillside garden with the youngest child on a blanket at the edge. The grandmother gasped and all looked to see a large black hairy figure standing at the tree line about twenty feet behind the baby, staring. The grandmother brought the children inside, retrieved a firearm, and the figure was gone when she returned to the porch.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Kentucky #4369c15d-f856-44da-a531-37c1124d7dcf

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

The guest's grandfather was sitting on his vehicle eating sardines when a grayish hairy figure appeared and stared for several minutes with only slight swaying. He set the food down, left, and found it gone the next day, then left food there about every two weeks and saw the figure a few times. On the last visit he saw a large black one with a younger one, the large one shaking trees and throwing things while the young one left, after which he stopped going there.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviourObject throwingTree break