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1977 Missouri #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/aMO4ZDXFgouTurhU-_ggi0rfEVzp2t1DoXaok9BFJGc

Sasquatch sighting in Missouri (1977)

The witness was sleeping in a tent with a cousin at a scout camp when waking late at night to sounds at the central table. From the tent flap the witness watched a tall broad ape-like creature pry open the troop food box and eat bread and donuts. After another boy shouted bear, the creature stood upright, tore down the tarp, vocalized, then walked quickly between the tents into the woods.

Full-body sightingWhoopGrowlFootstepsProperty disturbance
Summer 1977 Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma Class B #2789

Camper says a sasquatch entered a cabin of sleeping girls.

During a church retreat campground stay, the witness lay awake in a top bunk on a stormy night after lights-out. She heard the screen door open and shut, smelled a foul odor, heard heavy shuffling steps and breathing with a soft growl behind her bunk, and felt something large and furry trace her face. She next remembers waking on the floor, and the next morning a bunkmate said she had seen a big black hairy creature standing behind the witness.

Door or window contactFootstepsOdorGrowlAnimal behaviour +1
summer of 77 Washington #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/07/29/sc-ep43-beachfoot-interviews

Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1977)

At age ten the guest was on a ferry from Seattle to Victoria crossing Admiralty Inlet. Passengers noticed a large black figure swimming in the wake toward Whidbey Island with plainly visible arms. Another passenger suggested it was a Bigfoot, which prompted the guest's later interest.

Partial sighting
1977 Sussex County, New Jersey #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/06/30/sc-ep37-cops-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting near Sussex County (1977)

A family on a farm found a solid wooden garage door torn off and eight pet rabbits killed and mutilated with little blood, after hearing a woman-like scream. On subsequent nights they saw a seven-foot hairy creature near the road and under the yard light. They fired on it as it entered the coop and came toward them, then sent children away. Police blamed a bear, raccoon or wild dog.

Full-body sightingScreamProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
January 1977 Groveland, Tuolumne County, California Class B #7097

Campers hear late night vocalizations at Carlon Station

The witness and two companions were snow camping in a tent when they were awakened in the early morning by loud footsteps in snow, puffing and grunting, and repeated piercing screams from a ridge above camp. The sounds moved around the campsite for about an hour before fading as the source walked away over the ridge. The group kept watch until daylight, then packed up and left quickly without seeing the source or approaching the ridge to look for tracks.

FootstepsGrowlScreamVocalization
Winter 1977 Tuolumne County, California Class B #2887

Loud, High-pitched Animal Screams Heard Outside a Cabin Late at Night

After midnight while getting ready for bed in a cabin near Pinecrest Lake, the witness heard extremely loud high-pitched screaming from behind the cabin that lasted over a minute. The witness judged the sound to be very close and unlike any known animal, ruling out cats, humans, and bears at the time. Months later the witness read a description of similar screaming and associated the sound with Bigfoot.

Scream
Summer 1977 Sawyer's Bar, Siskiyou County, California Class B #5637

Campers have frightening experience in the Marble Mountains Wilderness

In summer 1977 the witness and a companion were backpacking and camped at a trail junction near a creek in forested mountain country. In the middle of the night they were awakened by loud crashing of logs and rocks being hurled in the streambed below. Bipedal footsteps then approached up the slope to behind nearby trees, with heavy breathing heard high in the air and a humph sound after the witness shouted, before the creature walked away parallel to the creek.

FootstepsRock throwingObject throwingVocalization
1977 Mendocino County, California Class B #2199

Witness heard stomping and crashing of small trees.

The witness was lying in a tent at night in woods near Mendocino when loud stomping and crashing of small trees was heard about fifty yards away. The sounds lasted about 30 seconds and were interpreted as a biped moving quickly, apparently pursued by barking dogs. After the crashing stopped, a dog was heard yelping as if badly injured, then silence fell. The next morning the witness found broken vegetation but no clear sign of its cause and moved camp.

FootstepsMovement onlyTree break
Summer 1977 Outskirts Of Missoula MT, Missoula County, Montana Class A #1614

Young horseback rider has a face-to-face encounter in the Rattlesnake Wilderness Area

When the witness was about 10 or 11, they were riding a horse through a meadow bordering wilderness near Missoula in summer. The horse stopped and the witness saw a tall figure peeking from behind a tree about 10 feet away. The figure stood silently watching, and the witness turned the horse around and rode home.

Partial sighting
1977 Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington Class B #929

Camper experiences odd odors and sounds, feels presence

The witness was camping with family near the Elwah River and was sitting outside after others went to sleep when a rock struck the tent twice. The family moved to their car, and the witness later stood outside in darkness sensing a very tall man-like presence nearby, hearing breathing, footsteps and snapping twigs and smelling a musky foul odor. After headlights showed nothing, the odor and sense of unease lifted and the family returned to the tent for the night before breaking camp the next day.

Property disturbanceFootstepsOdorUnidentified soundAnimal behaviour
Summer 1977 Gates, Marion County, Oregon Class B #5350

College students get approached by sasquatch and shoot at it

Four college geology students camping at night heard howling from a canyon and then saw the outline of a huge bipedal animal on the road in moon and campfire light. When the animal approached, one student fired a rifle several times, after which it crossed the road and moved noisily up the opposite slope through brush. A responding deputy examined the area the next day and reported indistinct impressions, small pushed-over trees and long uphill strides, but no blood or fur.

HowlSilhouetteMovement only
Summer 1977 Drain, Douglas County, Oregon Class B #22570

Family hears loud whooping for three consecutive nights near Drain

The witness and a relative were walking home in the evening when they heard loud whooping from the mountain above them and ran home. They brought parents outside to listen, and all four heard the continuing whoops. The sounds recurred over subsequent nights, and a county trapper later searched the area but found nothing.

Whoop
12 December 1976 Yadkinville, Yadkin County, North Carolina Class B #13378

Menacing commotion at night, tracks in snow the next morning, out Yadkinville

The witness and two companions were snow sledding at night when they heard loud noise and commotion beyond their firelight and fled to the house. The next day they returned and found very large tracks in the snow leading from and back into nearby woods, with tracks around a tree with stripped branches. They did not see the source of the sound and report no further experiences since.

Unidentified soundTracksTree break
December 1976 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas Class B #35721

Recollection of hearing frightening vocalizations in the Fort Worth Nature Center

The witness and two companions had parked by a river at night when they heard three extremely loud scream-like howls from the woods behind them. The sounds were described as loud, long, echoing, and angry. Frightened, all three got into the truck and drove away quickly to the highway without seeing the source.

ScreamHowl
December 1976 Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas Class A #11592

Youth has sighting near bridge

In late 1976 the witness rode a dirt bike to an old bridge site on the Red River and stood watching ice drift by. He heard dogs chasing something across the river and watched a large dark hairy biped run and leap over a fallen log while the dogs pursued it. One dog yelped and fell silent, the other retreated, and the frightened teenage witness fled home on his bike.

Full-body sighting
November 1976 Falcon, Sampson County, North Carolina Class A #6267

Two young men are confronted in broad daylight by a large creature near Falcon

On a November 1976 afternoon two young men hunting squirrels walked toward a river when a large hairy biped came up from the river bottom toward them. It stopped about 30 feet away, looked at them, snapped a small dead tree and vocalized. The pair retreated over a ridge and ran, later discussing whether it had been a person in costume.

Full-body sightingVocalizationTree breakAnimal behaviourPossible hoax +1
November 1976 Monroe Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio Class A #4837

Rabbit hunter witness's a massive creature running through the woods

During rabbit season in 1976 the witness was hunting with four companions in dense snowy woods when he became separated. He heard an extremely loud sound and then had a roughly five-second view of a huge dark brown bipedal figure running at full speed. He later told his companions, who suggested it was a deer, but he insisted it was not.

Full-body sightingUnidentified sound
November 1976 Right On The Outskirts Of Weatherford. It Is Inside The City Limits Now., Parker County, Texas Class B #51180

Man recalls strange occurrences as a youngster in Weatherford

At about age 12, the witness and a companion were hunting raccoons at night along a creek. They noticed a strong foul odor and heard a large splash as if someone fell into the water. When they reached the spot no one was visible and only disturbed murky water remained. A few days later a flood fence in the area was found torn up.

OdorUnidentified sound
November 1976 Pinon N.M., Otero County, New Mexico Class A #8417

Daylight sighting by a deer hunter

The witness had separated from companions while deer hunting and was resting near a small meadow in thick pinyon forest. A tall, dark, hair-covered bipedal figure emerged from the tree line, crossed along the edge of the meadow in daylight, and re-entered the trees without noticing the witness. The witness did not pursue, confront, or shoot at it.

Full-body sighting
November 1976 Lake Hughes, Los Angeles County, California Class B #27687

Possible tracks found in snow and mud on family property many years ago near Lake Hughes

Four deer hunters stopped at a relative's ranch for lunch and fed hogs when horses in a back pasture became highly agitated for about 30 minutes. They found very large, deep tracks circling the pasture with a strong wet-dog and rotten-egg odor still present. They followed the bipedal trackway to a very steep hill where the steps ascended out of reach, tried and failed to replicate the stride and step-up, then left without ever seeing the maker.

TracksOdor