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Sasquatch sighting
Stories from the late 1970s and 1980s describe animals running across the road, large bulls found with broken necks, and missing livestock.
Historical account
Firsthand stories in the area are said to go back as many as 150 years.
Sasquatch sighting
A relative's older companion reportedly sighted a creature on a pond bank while hunting around age twelve.
Sasquatch sighting near Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania
A teenage boy working in backwoods heard what he thought was his younger brother whistling and approaching. He saw a small human-like being covered with black hair, tried to shoot it but trembled, and the being stepped behind a tree then ran off whistling. The boy returned home frightened and upset when recalling it.
Sasquatch sighting near Bridgewater, Pennsylvania
A berry picker encountered a small child-sized hair-covered being walking upright toward them while whistling like a person. After initial fright the witness pursued it, but it ran away very fast continuing to whistle. The teller notes locals afterward called it a name associated with its speed.
Folklore near Lovelock, Nevada
The hosts retell tribal accounts of tall red-haired cannibalistic giants who trapped and ate local people and were eventually trapped in a cave, burned and killed after a multi-year war. Later miners reportedly found large mummies, oversized sandals and artifacts, and a large hand-like mark was seen on the cave wall.
Scream
Locals have long called a wooded stretch along the river the Monkey Den after reportedly being screamed at there for many years.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
A few years after the 1918 incident the community reportedly captured another hair-covered figure in the same swamp area. The teller suggests this individual and the 1918 figure were humans with a hair-growth condition from a family that arrived in 1901, distinct from the original 1884 wild man.
Folklore
The witness stated similar animals have been seen in the area for many years and locals refer to them by a traditional wildman name.
Sasquatch sighting near Mount Sterling, Illinois
A press account told of a wild man living in a cave or deserted mine who raided farms for calves and sheep despite a cash reward. A hunter entered the cave alone with a knife and fought hand-to-hand for an hour, reporting a towering, long-haired, savage-faced creature with thin bony hands. The hunter escaped crawled out at midnight exhausted after being knocked unconscious.
Paranormal encounter
Two companions traveling with money stopped for the night at a roadside tavern and shared a locked upper room. During the night one was seized around the throat by a heavy, hairy, naked figure that he wrestled off, but a light showed no intruder and no way in or out. Weeks later they heard another traveler had been found dead in the same room with marks on the throat.
Folklore
The guest relays a tribal story in songs that bothersome man-eating creatures were driven north past tall forests into very cold big mountains and into another land. Most were exiled so they would not return, though some escaped in different directions.
Sasquatch sighting
Many years ago numerous sightings were rumored in the community and interpreted by elders as a warning during troubled times.
Historical account
Relatives recount a long-ago incident in which a female relative gathering berries screamed, disappeared for over 30 days, returned starved reporting being taken and offered inedible wild food, and died soon after.