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10 October 1998 Platina, Trinity County, California Class B #596

Possible visitation at a remote campsite in the Trinity NF

A solo backpacker camped overnight at the Mud Springs hunter camp. Around 10:30 p.m. he was awakened by a loud branch snap followed by heavy vibrating footsteps passing very close to his tent. His nested cook pots were then heard clanging and later found unnested and spread out. After finding a long hair on his backpack Velcro he broke camp and drove to Red Bluff.

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October 1998 Gum Branch, Long County, Georgia Class A #5395

Deer hunter has encounter south of Fort Stewart.

After leaving his deer stand at dusk, the witness encountered a tall hair-covered figure standing on the trail about 40 to 50 feet away near a deadfall. The figure sniffed the air, stared at him, then took steps toward him before turning off the trail into the woods. The witness backed away and listened as it walked away without crashing through brush.

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October 1998 Palestine, Anderson County, Texas Class B #3393

Something chases man back to truck and he sees dark figure in rearview mirror

The witness pulled over on a roadside near woods, a creek and a lake for night fishing and stepped a short distance into the woods. He heard heavy footsteps moving through leaves toward him that seemed bipedal and too heavy for a dog, and the sounds paused when he paused and then rushed as he reached his truck. After driving away, he saw a large dark upright figure standing in the road behind him in his rearview mirror.

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28 September 1998 Essex County, New York Class B #1523

Hiker finds footprints and hears communicating sounds

The witness traveled to woods near Eagle Lake to camp overnight and listen for unusual sounds. In the afternoon he found elongated foot-like impressions, including one 12-inch print with four toes. After dark from a tree stand he heard repeated wood-on-wood strikes, a tree falling without cracking, footsteps uphill out of sight, and prolonged human-like hooting from multiple directions, followed by hours of silence. He left on foot around 3 a.m. without further incident.

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September 1998 Town Of Hoadley, Gallia County, Ohio Class A #3767

Late night sighting in Wayne National Forest, off Hoadley Road

The witness was camping with a companion when he repeatedly heard twigs snapping in the woods at night. Around 3:30 a.m. he shone a flashlight into the woods and saw a 7-foot-tall furry figure about 50 feet away with its back turned. After about a minute and a half the figure crouched defensively, and when the witness returned with a gun it was gone and no footprints were found.

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4 August 1998 Conejos County, Colorado Class A #1350

Report of a field investigation over several days

Three researchers camped in a remote timbered drainage in early August 1998 to study suspected sasquatch activity. Over two afternoons they heard loud primate-like calls and screams around camp, and during two nights they heard conversational vocalizations, rhythmic rock-clicking, and stealthy footfalls that alarmed horses. They also detected red eyeshine and later found a fresh animal bed overlooking the camp. They left early, concluding no conclusive evidence was obtained but the area warranted further investigation.

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3 August 1998 Etna, Siskiyou County, California Class A #22434

Backpacker sighting off the PCT in the Marble Mountains Wilderness

The witness was sleeping alone on a rock ledge above a drainage when she heard loud repetitive whooping and howling from far below. The source moved rapidly uphill, climbed a steep cliff to the ledge, and ran past her toward the peak above, pausing briefly to look toward her. It then vocalized from the top of the peak until near sunrise, and she left the area at first light.

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August 1998 Concrete, Skagit County, Washington Class B #8456

Hunters have something take up perimeter around camp near Mt. Baker

Three people camping while bear hunting heard loud howls and screams from the treeline surrounding their camp at night. The sounds appeared to circle the camp and continued despite banging pots and pans and firing a shotgun into the air. The group packed up and waited in their truck until about 4 a.m. while the sounds persisted, then left. They later found openly left food untouched and found no tracks.

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July 1998 Forsyth, Taney County, Missouri Class B #22600

Couple has early evening encounter at home near Forsyth

Late one summer evening in 1998, a couple lying in bed in their trailer heard repeated loud screams and their dogs became highly agitated. The husband went outside with a flashlight and saw red-orange eyeshine well above normal human face height, then a tall upright shadow running toward the southwest. No further screams occurred and the dogs stayed agitated for 10-15 minutes. The couple decided not to call emergency services.

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May 1998 Hoadley, Gallia County, Ohio Class A #3686

Another nighttime incident near Hoadley, off Hoadley Road (Wayne Nat. For.)

The witness and a companion camped in Wayne National Forest over a holiday weekend. After mimicking animal sounds in the evening, the witness stayed awake through the night hearing crashes, footsteps, grunts and mimicking speech, and saw eye shine high off the ground. In the morning the pair found a snapped tree, strong odor, widely spaced ground marks and a five-toed partial print, which the witness attributed to a large visitor.

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2 February 1998 Wellsville, Allegany County, New York Class A #11726

Witness has two encounters with an animal near Genesee River

The witness and a young relative were walking on a trail in winter when they heard movement in the woods beside them. A tall grayish-white animal came onto the path very close to them, made a growl-like sound, and moved away quickly. The pair fled the area and said no one believed their account.

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1998–2004 Ainsworth Hotsprings, British Columbia Class B #9069

Possible approaches to a boat ramp on Kootenay Lake

The witness reports sleeping aboard a boat moored in a marina slip and repeatedly hearing a heavy visitor come down the metal access ramp late at night and walk across the floating docks, displacing the dock enough to rock the boat. The steps sound widely spaced and cover the ramp and dock sections unusually quickly. The pattern recurred at least once each summer holiday over several years, with a bucket of fish offal sometimes found emptied afterward and whoop-like vocalizations also heard.

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1998 Nowata, Oklahoma #668cc6d0-f876-4ac6-83ca-81af3a71a7b0

Footsteps near Nowata, Oklahoma (1998)

The two hunters arrived late and set up camp and a tree stand in darkness in a hollow bottom. One hunter returned alone to retrieve a phone and heard pacing footsteps, a very loud voice repeating a name, and a laugh, then saw a huge dark shape in tall weeds and fired twice before fleeing. Both hunters were then circled for hours by fast-moving unseen things that stayed out of flashlight range, threw out a poisoned hot dog that was quickly taken by something running on two legs that coughed like a person, and found the heavy welded stand ripped from the tree in the morning.

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1998 Oklahoma #477459b4-4c04-4a88-bb65-0de7651224c6

Movement only in Oklahoma (1998)

After the shots both hunters stayed by the fire and heard several things circling the camp for an hour or two, staying outside flashlight range. The witness threw a hot dog soaked in antifreeze into the woods, something moved quickly on two legs to grab it, then coughed and hacked deeply while moving away. The circling stopped and the coughing presence slowly retreated until near sunrise.

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1998 Oklahoma #477459b4-4c04-4a88-bb65-0de7651224c6

Vocalization in Oklahoma (1998)

The witness went back alone down the hollow to recover a phone and was paced by something moving on two legs. A very loud voice spoke the other hunter's name twice and then laughed in a way that vibrated the witness's clothing. The witness climbed the tree, saw a huge wide black mass moving in tall weeds that circled to ambush him, warned it to leave, then fired twice before it crashed away north while he fled south to camp.

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1998 Oklahoma #477459b4-4c04-4a88-bb65-0de7651224c6

Footsteps in Oklahoma (1998)

Late at night the two hunters walked through a dark hollow to install a heavy metal tree stand. The witness felt stalked and heard something pacing him very close on two legs. While installing the stand he fell from the tree, kept hearing movement in nearby brush, and both hunters became disoriented about the direction back to camp.

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1998 Oregon #0976d03e-a8f1-496c-81a1-908192ba6cdb

Footsteps in Oregon (1998)

The witness and his brother were camping on a ridge trail during a multi-day hunting and camping trip. Late at night they heard something large approaching through low brush on two feet with very long strides. They jumped out of the tent with a rifle and spotlight but saw nothing despite clear visibility. They fired a shot for safety and got little sleep.

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1998 Virginia #754a1f9f-b534-460d-81a0-f9240cc6e597

Sasquatch sighting in Virginia (1998)

The witness was alone in a tree stand before sunrise waiting near a bait pile. An adult female-like creature and a smaller juvenile emerged on all fours, then the adult stood, vocalized, and left with the juvenile after a distant reply was heard. The witness remained frozen, then backed out and fled to the truck and gave up hunting afterward.

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28 November 1997 Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/06/01/sc-ep110-hunter-shoots-a-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting in Oklahoma (1997)

The guest was deer hunting from a power line easement and was walking back to the truck in late afternoon when a baseball-sized rock hit his chest and a creature screamed and ran toward him. He dropped his rifle, reached the truck, and when the creature came over the truck bed within feet while screaming, he shot it with a pistol above the left eye. The creature screamed and fled through the woods, and as he drove away a soccer-ball-sized rock struck his truck.

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22 November 1997 Fountain County, Indiana Class B #2464

Hunter has frightening encounter near Attica

The witness was deer hunting from a familiar tree stand and had been there about two hours when loud deep breathing, snorts and bellows were directed at them from nearby. The witness caught only a brief glimpse of a tall upright shadow moving swiftly but could not get a clear view through the scope and did not fire. The source of the sounds then left very loudly, and the witness was too frightened to immediately check for tracks.

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