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23 February 2018 New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/XPMsCXTnM51YAiDdP1GIgBYl_3q8qXbvztVC5ILAkD4

Sasquatch sighting in New York (2018)

While driving home the witness saw a black figure walking quickly across a farm field away from the road. The witness stopped, then followed to a back field and watched it walk along the wood line with odd arm swing and bent knee before dropping into a ravine. The witness returned home shaken.

Full-body sightingMovement only
July 2017 New York #72e774db-09a2-474d-ba48-d1439bfffe1a

Movement only in New York (2017)

The witness and a companion hiked far into virgin timber to fish a distant pond. After hearing movement and feeling intense cold and dread near a swamp, they camped amid unnatural silence. Both reported a shared lucid-dream-like experience of small pale beings that looked back and vanished, and the witness took photos thought to show something.

Movement onlyAnimal behaviour
2017 New York #72e774db-09a2-474d-ba48-d1439bfffe1a

Tree break in New York (2017)

The witness and a companion spent three days fishing and camping at a remote lake. On calm nights trees fell near camp, and each dawn they heard rhythmic wood-on-wood pounding for nearly an hour. They saw a dark partial figure behind a lakeshore pine, heard a long piercing scream with fast hillside movement, heard distant talk-like sounds and short screams, and found a single large human-like footprint in mud on the way out. They also saw an orange light over the lake that split into smaller lights, followed later by jets overhead.

Tree breakWood knockPartial sightingFootstepsScream +3
February 2016 New York #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/02/26/sc-ep195-two-hunters-encounter-a-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting in New York (2016)

While walking back out, the pair heard a loud exhaled huff about 30 yards away. The witness saw a tall dark hairy man-like figure peering through the bamboo and his brother viewed it with binoculars. After the witness stepped forward, the creature crashed away loudly through the woods and they hurried back to the truck.

Partial sightingUnidentified soundOdorMovement only
2014 New York #c69fa039-7a7c-40e2-80c5-f4e3a1407fcc

Footsteps in New York (2014)

The day after Thanksgiving in 2014 the witness walked with family and a friend to and from a quarry in the dark. Footsteps on one side paced them, stopping when they stopped and starting when they started, maintaining distance over about a quarter to half mile. They shone flashlights behind them and saw nothing, and the follower did not pass a certain point on the return.

FootstepsMovement only
2013 New York #15b65c64-de92-46eb-9043-028b9d424d3e

Sasquatch sighting in New York (2013)

The guest, then in early teens, was camping in a tent with a teenage friend and the friend's father at a lake-side campground in the Adirondacks. Late at night the woods went silent and heavy bipedal footsteps approached the tent, then a very large hand pushed the tent wall inward. After the friend's father mumbled in his sleep the hand withdrew, and the visitor rummaged through a cooler on the picnic table before walking into the lake and swimming away. In the morning the cooler had been moved, items were strewn, and an oily feel and stale smell were noticed.

Partial sightingFootstepsProperty disturbanceMovement only
24 September 2010 Northville, Hamilton County, New York Class B #28570

Possible nighttime encounter outside a home north of Northville

The witness and a companion were sitting outside the companion's house at night when they heard a scream from a nearby swamp. Shortly after they heard a large animal breaking branches in woods on their side of the road. After owls called behind the house, an unseen object coming from the woods landed in the yard behind them.

ScreamMovement onlyObject throwing
11 November 2003 Prattsburg, Steuben County, New York Class B #19836

Campers describe incidents over 3-4 hours with unseen animal near their camp outside Prattsburgh

The witness and a companion were camped overnight in a shelter when the witness heard movement circling the camp, popping-like impacts and growls. The witness briefly saw a large dark shape among trees that was gone on second look. After investigating, the pair heard a heavy bipedal approach pass close behind camp, prompting them to leave for the cabin. The next day the witness found a large footprint and a freshly fallen tree.

Partial sightingGrowlWood knockFootstepsTracks +3
June 2002 Plymouth, Chenango County, New York Class B #4986

Possible vocalizations heard by resident near Bowman Lakes

The witness and a relative were camping on a rural forested property and getting ready for bed when they heard a long harsh yowl close to the campsite and heard something moving. When the witness shone a flashlight toward the sound, it stopped and seemed to move away without being seen. No physical evidence was found, and the sound was provisionally dismissed as a coyote although the witness doubts that explanation.

VocalizationMovement only
July 2000 Queensbury, Washington County, New York Class B #1603

Couple hear loud screams and experience a feeling of being watched on a trail near Buck Mountain

The witness and his wife left the trail by a creek to take photos. They heard a very loud deep roaring and screaming vocalization approaching from across the creek, repeated several times, with breaking branches as it circled and then followed them as they fled. Frightened, they gathered their belongings and ran back down the trail while the animal tracked them from alongside the creek.

ScreamGrowlVocalizationMovement onlyOdor
Summer 1998 Erie County, New York Class B #1520

Witness sees yellow. glowing eyes while four-wheeling

The witness and a companion were riding a four-wheeler through a swampy forest off abandoned tracks at dusk. The witness first noticed a black flash in the woods, then heard whistling and rustling behind them while riding slowly. Looking back, the witness perceived a large black bulk pursuing them and saw two yellow glowing eyes. The companion reportedly saw nothing, and the witness did not mention it at the time to avoid alarming the companion.

Partial sightingEyeshineWhistleMovement only
October 1997 Delaware County, New York Class B #1453

Hunter hears odd clicking noises while scouting

The witness hiked to a deer stand while hearing repeated groups of clicking sounds for about 45 minutes but could not locate the source on the ridge. While walking back out of the woods, the witness heard something large approach and stop behind them. The unseen source then made a very loud close grunt and, after the witness chambered a round, a loud guttural scream/grunt. The witness never saw the source.

Unidentified soundGrowlScreamMovement only
1995–1996 New York #d13c179d-c46a-4207-9373-0e38be93ed5f

Sasquatch sighting in New York (1995)

The witness's family had moved to a remote house bordered by extensive forest. Over three consecutive nights an exchange student staying in the lower level reported a face watching him through the window while working out. The witness heard car-door-like slams and footsteps with no vehicle present, and on the final night the witness and the father chased outside and heard something crashing rapidly and powerfully through dense woods away from any road.

Partial sightingFootstepsUnidentified soundMovement only
August 1994 Albany County, New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/SJ0ENTQ4h0WsGIaRm8gpFcsL1-hUSnxBrX2Fpg95_o0

Tree break near Albany County (1994)

The witness's car sputtered to a stop on a bridge and the witness set out on foot toward home. From a dark forested slope the witness watched a tall tree thrash, then heard a massive thud, three loud knocks, and rapid footsteps sprinting uphill toward the road. An unseen presence stopped feet away breathing sharply, then repeatedly ran ahead and waited, forcing the witness to pass it several times over an eighth to a quarter mile. Near dawn where cover ended the presence vanished without ever being seen.

Tree breakWood knockFootstepsVocalizationAnimal behaviour +1
May 1992 Location Withheld, Orleans County, New York Class B #11089

Two young boys experience powerful, high-pitched vocalization

When the witness was about 10, he and a companion were shooting BB guns at fish in a pond on family land and then fired into a hedgerow. Immediately something unseen about 10 feet into the brush produced loud screaming and howling vocalizations and violently shook vegetation before moving rapidly toward the forest while continuing to vocalize. The boys fled to the house.

ScreamHowlMovement only
BFRO YEAR: 95-96 Clarendon, Orleans County, New York Class B #4799

Possible vocalizations heard by coon hunters near Clarendon

The witness and a hunting companion were about to start a nighttime hunt when they heard an unfamiliar loud scream. The sound appeared to move rapidly away, shifting from nearby to much farther within seconds while crashing through brush. Frightened despite being accustomed to the dark, the pair left without seeing the source and returned to their truck.

ScreamMovement only
BFRO YEAR: 1989,1993 Essex County, New York Class A #1522

Two separate encounters with "thing" leave three friends scared, shaken and curious.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m., the witness and two companions heard screaming and metal being torn near junked cars below an old railbed. A very large presence came up the steep bank and stood close enough for its breath to be felt, accompanied by a foul odor. When the group fled toward the road it chased them with audible footsteps before stopping at the brush, and a heavy station wagon nearby was later found overturned and torn apart.

ScreamOdorFootstepsSilhouetteProperty disturbance +1
the next night (after last 4th of July) New York #c69fa039-7a7c-40e2-80c5-f4e3a1407fcc

Movement only in New York

The next night the group hiked a trail to a nearby quarry for night photography. The same colored balls of light appeared about eighty yards away moving through the woods parallel to them. The lights stayed alongside for several hundred yards to the quarry.

Movement onlyPossible misidentification
last 4th of July New York #c69fa039-7a7c-40e2-80c5-f4e3a1407fcc

Movement only in New York

On a hot night around a summer holiday the witness lay by an open cabin window looking into the woods. He saw flashing red, blue and yellow lights moving through trees and down a road. Others in the cabin also looked, and companions with night vision described softball-sized balls. The lights disappeared after noise and activity.

Movement onlyPossible misidentification
in March, a few years before 2018 New York #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/XPMsCXTnM51YAiDdP1GIgBYl_3q8qXbvztVC5ILAkD4

Sasquatch sighting in New York

The witness's mother got up at night and saw a large dark figure at her back patio door putting its hands over the glass as if trying to enter. After the witness drove up with headlights, the figure left over a steep ravine in one leap. The mother remained fearful and kept doors locked.

Full-body sightingDoor or window contactMovement only