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Couple hear vocalizations while camping at Milk Lake
The witness and a companion camped overnight near a pond without making noise. In the middle of the night the pond frogs stopped croaking and a loud whistling and clicking sound continued for about 15 minutes. The companion suggested the sound was a Bigfoot.
Woman recalls afternoon sighting as a child near Port Angeles
In fall 1983 five children playing in a driveway noticed a pastured buffalo act spooked, then a tall dark biped across a creek and field. The witness stared at what looked like a dark stump under a tree that then ran bipedally with long swinging arms before turning back toward the woods when the children screamed. The next day they found flattened grass but no footprints where it had run and where it entered the woods on a deer path.
Memory told of hearing a loud breathing-growl while camping at Disney's Fort Wilderness
The witness was awake alone inside a pop-up camper at night while relatives were away and two children slept. She heard very loud heavy breathing and growling immediately outside an open window about seven feet off the ground. She shouted for it to leave, the sound stopped at once, and the children woke. She later inferred the source must have been 7 to 8 feet tall and believes it may have been a Bigfoot looking into the camper.
Father and son hear heavy footsteps made by an apparent bipedal creature
The witness and a relative were walking in dense woods when they heard large, heavy bipedal footsteps on the other side of a dirt mound. The footsteps approached to within a few feet, stopped for several minutes, then resumed and moved away. As they left the area they noticed a strong ammonia-like odor.
Late Arriving Campers Hear Running, Stomping, Shrieking, Howling
Three people laid out sleeping bags to camp overnight near a spring. Within minutes they heard nearby rustling, loud stomping, and prolonged shrieking and howling lasting about 20 minutes without seeing the source. The source then moved rapidly up a hillside while continuing to vocalize for at least another 10 minutes. The group eventually fell asleep and found no tracks during a brief morning search.
Late Arriving Campers Hear Running, Stomping, Shrieking, Howling
Three people had laid out sleeping bags for the night at Kitson Springs when they heard rustling, loud stomping, and prolonged shrieking and howling nearby. They did not see the source and remained still while the sounds continued and then moved up a hillside into the distance. In the morning they made only a brief check and reported no tracks.
Camper frightened near Kitson Hot Springs
The witness and two companions stopped while traveling in Oregon to camp for the night. Shortly after laying out their bags, they heard loud screaming and stomping and crunching sounds from springs about 50 yards away that lasted about 20 minutes. They stayed still in fear and did not see any shapes. The witness interpreted the sounds as a territorial warning from a single Sasquatch.
Sasquatch sighting in South Carolina (1983)
The guest's brother's father-in-law was driving home late at night when he stopped to help two women whose car had swerved off the road after a deer ran out followed by a dark form. While retrieving a tow rope from his truck he came face to face with a large hair-covered biped standing about thirty feet away. The creature stared, made a gurgling growl, smelled strongly, then walked into the woods breaking branches, leaving the driver badly shaken.
Woman hears footsteps, breathing, and then running as shots were fired
The witness reports being awakened in bed by heavy footsteps and a very foul smell while sleeping with the windows open. She listened as the unseen source walked past the house toward the dead end, followed by dogs barking, three gunshots, and a loud scream she described as non-human with running footsteps fading into the distance. Her husband slept through the episode and she states she was too scared to look out the window.
Good Samaritan has encounter near Liberty Hill
A driver stopped to help two motorists whose car had left the road after swerving to avoid a large hairy creature chasing a deer across the road. While fetching a rope from his truck to pull their car out, he walked directly into the creature standing behind his truck. He noted a foul smell, red eyes, and a low growl before it walked to the woods edge and then into the woods. He then helped move the car and continued his trip, shaken by the encounter.
Tracks near Audrey County (1983)
As a boy the witness and his cousin left a catfish in his grandparents' creek and found it gone the next day with muddied water and two large bare human-like footprints nearby. A short time later while sitting alone on a swing set he watched a reddish-brown creature part bushes about 50 yards away and stare at him for about a minute, moving its mouth, before backing away.
While riding bicycle, teenager has afternoon, close encounter not far from Trinity River
As a boy riding his bicycle home on a trail through the woods on a hot clear afternoon, the witness felt watched and then heard brush thrashing as something kept pace with him. He raced to a more open trail and looked back to see a very tall, shaggy reddish-brown creature with dark bare facial skin standing at the tree line watching him. He reported a horrible stench filling the air and an absence of normal forest sounds, saying the sighting lasted about half a minute and left him avoiding the woods for months.
Camper diverts tall creature approaching him near Puyallup
In 1983 the witness was camping and was awakened around 11 p.m. by loud screams repeated every 15-20 seconds that approached through brush. The witness then saw a tall dark shape about 7-8 feet tall striding through undergrowth and yelled, after which it veered to go around and continued on screaming. A foul odor was noticed as it passed, and broken branches were found the next morning.
Father and son were out scouting for deer when they spot large eyes 8 foot off the gound, also hear loud scream.
Two people were spotlighting deer in a wildlife management area in central Florida around 2 a.m. for bow-season scouting. They observed a pair of eyes estimated about 7 to 8 feet off the ground and about a foot apart from roughly 150 feet away. As they left they heard an extremely loud piercing scream and drove away quickly without later searching for sign.
Possible Nighttime Encounter by Girls on Horseback north of Ft. Myers
The witness and a companion were riding horses at night along a dirt road bordered by ditches, woods and pastures when the horses became nervous. The witness heard something moving parallel to them in the woods, keeping pace even as they urged the horses from a gallop to a full run across several fence lines. The parallel movement stopped where the woods ended at the edge of the witness's property. A later search by truck found where something had been, but the creature was never seen.
Woman sees large upright figure cross road near midnight
The witness was sitting on back porch steps late at night waiting for her boyfriend when she saw a large upright figure cross the road about 150 feet away near a streetlight. The figure continued across and disappeared behind tall shrubs along a neighbor's driveway. Neighbor's penned hunting dogs then began barking intensely, and the witness went inside; her mother and boyfriend heard the dogs but did not see the figure.
Children building fort see large figure, hear growl
The witness and four companions walked at night along a trail through woods to take wood from a nearby house construction site. The witness, leading with a flashlight, noticed movement in the forest, then saw a large dark silhouette with red eyes ahead on the trail and heard a low growl. The group fled back to old farm buildings, hid for about an hour, then ran to a companion's house.
Sasquatch sighting near Yreka, California (1983)
The witness was playing an evening hide-and-seek war game with a sibling group and two neighborhood brothers on a school field in Yreka. The witness mistook three approaching figures for the opposing team until one ran to within about ten feet, revealing a tall hair-covered being on two legs. All three beings then leapt away toward the hills while looking back, and the witness learned the others had seen Bigfoot, sending the witness into prolonged shock.
Teenagers have nightime encounter near Jackson
The witness, then a teenager, led four companions single-file through dark woods at night to take lumber from a house under construction. The group heard a noise ahead, then saw a very tall upright figure with red eyeshine in the weak flashlight beam. After companions threw objects at it and a deep growl was heard, the group fled to nearby outbuildings and later to a house for help.
Campers have lengthy nighttime encounter near Seneca
Two companions camped in a remote wooded area after clearing a small site and lighting a fire. For several hours something circled the camp a few yards away, producing walking and breathing sounds and a musky odor. One companion glimpsed the figure in firelight as a much taller and wider upright figure, and it followed them out and crossed a road in a few steps as they left.