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December 1980 Rossland, British Columbia Class A #14511

Sighting by snowmobilers outside Castlegar

Near Christmas 1980 the witness was riding a snowmobile with a relative on a forest trail at night when they got stuck. Both smelled a strong rotten-meat odor and then the witness saw a fur-covered bipedal figure about six feet tall run across the trail into the bush. The witness found a large bare footprint where it crossed and bipedal steps through deep powder snow. A parent who arrived later saw the remaining marks and told the witness the figure was a sasquatch.

Partial sightingOdorTracks
15 August 1978 Don't Know, British Columbia Class A #24806

Motorists recount incident on the side of a highway near the BC-Alberta border

The witness and companions had pulled to the side of a road to sleep in their car late at night. After hearing a slap or thump on the roof, the witness looked out and saw a tall, hair-covered biped running across the road toward the woods, lit by passing headlights. The group then left to sleep at a truck stop instead.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingVehicle contact
September 1977 Upper Fraser, British Columbia Class A #13232

Daylight sighting near Prince George

The witness was riding a motorcycle home from work in the early evening when he saw an animal standing in a ditch by a bend in the road. At first thinking it was a bear, he watched it step out and walk across the road in front of him before disappearing into brush. He described it as a large, muscular, hair-covered biped standing well over six feet tall that glanced at him as it crossed.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
8 August 1977 British Columbia Class B #2443

Lots of tracks found while fishing

Five people fishing in a remote creek area found about half a dozen very large footprints that appeared to be about a week old. The tracks ran from the creek across sandy soil toward rocky brush and were described as about 17 inches long and 10 inches wide. Casts were later made from the tracks and the find was reported in newspapers.

Tracks
10 June 1976 Near McBride, British Columbia Class B #2421

Large, black creature seen running across road on two legs

More than a dozen people who were driving down a road claimed to see a large black creature. The creature reportedly ran across the road on two legs and continued down through the mountains. The report was relayed by someone who was not among the witnesses.

Road crossing
1976 Port Alberni, British Columbia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/11/20/sc-ep275-first-nations-encounters-with-sasquatch-part-2

Sasquatch sighting near Port Alberni, British Columbia (1976)

A logger driving back toward the log landing in sun glare struck one of two hair-covered figures on the road. The struck creature fell into the ditch moaning while the larger one approached. Both then pounded the pickup, smashing the windshield before the driver fled. Managers later ordered the truck flattened and buried to conceal the incident.

Full-body sightingVehicle contactVocalization
December 1974 Sicamous, British Columbia Class B #11570

Tracks near Sicamous, British Columbia (1974)

The witness and a companion were staying at a closed lakeside resort in winter to ski on the snow-covered beach. Shortly after setting out in the afternoon they found two sets of very large footprints in the snow running along the bay. They followed the tracks and found body-sized impressions where the makers appeared to have lain and moved limbs in the snow, then found a partly eaten fish near a dock. As dusk approached they left the area and saw nothing further that night.

Tracks
July 1974 Withheld, British Columbia Class A #21563

Childhood Sighting Near a House in the Okanagan

Early one summer morning in 1974, the witness, then a child, looked out a bedroom window overlooking Okanagan Lake and saw a very tall, dark, thick-bodied figure standing by the house's sliding glass door. After standing motionless briefly, the figure turned and walked across the lawn into the orchard and out of sight. No one else in the house saw it.

Full-body sighting
5 May 1974 Shawingan Lake B.C. Vancouver Island, British Columbia Class A #24564

Woman recalls multiple witness daylight sighting on Shawnigan Lake

Five girls were walking in the woods when they heard crashing from across a meadow and hid to watch. They observed a very tall, hairy bipedal figure with long arms approaching, noticing a foul smell. After one cousin made a noise, the figure was startled and walked back into the woods, and the girls ran home.

Full-body sightingOdorFootstepsAnimal behaviour
April 1974 Princeton, British Columbia Class A #294

Two brothers see and verbally confront upright, walking, hairy creature

Two brothers on an early morning run outside town saw an upright, fully hairy creature cross the road onto a gravel road. After one shouted, the creature turned to face them in a brief standoff of about 45 seconds, then walked away around a bend. Minutes later they found large barefoot tracks in light snow and noted a slight lingering odor.

Full-body sightingTracksOdor
Summer 1973 Langley, British Columbia Class B #2424

Strange sounds heard at summer camp; animals reported missing

In summer 1973 the witness, then a child at a camp in Langley, joined a counselor and another child to search the back of the camp property for a neighbor's missing sheep. After finding bloody sheep fur on a barbed-wire fence, the group heard an extremely loud roar and fled in panic. The camp was then closed with officials blaming a loose bear. Years later the witness heard online Bigfoot scream recordings and felt they matched the sound exactly.

Scream
10 January 1969 Hope B.C., British Columbia Class A #10119

Motorist observes animal cross the road in front of him

The witness was driving at night with two companions when a large creature crossed the road in front of the vehicle from left to right, visible in the headlights for about six to eight seconds. The driver stopped at the crossing spot but the creature was gone and was not seen again. The witness described a tall greyish figure with very long arms, a thick torso and an apelike forehead that briefly turned its upper body toward the vehicle while walking.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
September 1968 Courtenay, British Columbia Class B #857

Possible sighting around 2:00AM near Courtenay

The witness arrived home late at night under bright moonlight and saw a large dark form standing in a ditch behind a telephone pole across the road, watching. The witness pointed it out to a parent, who glanced toward it and hurried the family inside. The form remained motionless during the several minutes observed, and a next-day check found only muddy water in the about 2-foot-deep ditch.

Partial sighting
August 1966 Penticton, British Columbia Class B #10572

Possible approach to a camp outside Penticton

The mother, sleeping with family in a tent trailer at a campground, was awake during the night while something was outside. In the morning the family found a cooler that had been tucked under the trailer dragged out, crushed, with food missing. The mother said she had seen its shadow on the tent wall and insisted it was neither a bear nor a man, remaining upset for most of the day.

SilhouetteProperty disturbance
May 1966 Spillimacheen, British Columbia Class A #1408

Bear hunter sees bigfoot mating

The witness was on foot hunting bears near a small clearing when he spotted three brown hair-covered animals scuffling as they moved away. He hid behind a log and watched as two mated face-to-face on the ground while the third stood and moved nearby, then he fired a rifle shot that missed. The three animals then fled into the treeline running on two legs.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour
October 1965 Fort St.John, British Columbia Class A #5172

Multi-witness road-crossing sighting outside Fort St.John

In 1965 a family of five was driving on the Alaska Highway in the early evening when an upright hairy figure crossed the road directly in front of their pickup near Mile 91. The occupants in both the cab and the camper watched it cross quickly. They later stopped at a cafe where the father made a joking remark about what they had seen. A lingering egg-like smell was also noted in connection with the crossing.

Road crossingFull-body sightingOdor
1965 Spillimacheen, British Columbia Related account #1408

Tracks near Spillimacheen, British Columbia (1965)

The same witness found a line of barefoot humanoid prints larger than a size ten shoe with a three to four foot stride heading into wilderness.

Tracks
1958 Port McNeil, British Columbia #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/11/21/sc-ep276-first-nations-encounters-with-sasquatch-part-3

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.

Partial sighting
October 1955 Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/iqimrATuQKXg0yc7o6x_-4bDjWzMteVl9yuRWmJEZt0

Sasquatch sighting near Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia (1955)

The witness hiked up a mountain to visit an abandoned mine and encountered a large hair-covered biped at close range. The creature approached to within about twenty feet, foraged on leaves, then noticed the witness and retreated while vocalizing. The witness considered shooting it for science but refrained, then examined droppings and a bedding site before describing the encounter as a lasting mystery.

Full-body sightingVocalizationScat
9 April 1934 Harrison, British Columbia Class A #14329

Old newspaper article (Fresno Bee) Univ. Calif. students plan expedition to BC