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August 1964 Ojai, Ventura County, California Class A #24648

Man retells his close, visual encounter at dawn on Pine Mountain as a young deer hunter

The witness, deer hunting at dawn from a ground position below a relative, watched a tall hair-covered biped step into a fire lane, pause and look toward the witness after hearing the witness speak, then cross and wait in brush before leaving downhill. The witness later found large barefoot-like tracks and noticed a strong foul odor at the crossing site. The witness did not shoot and initially told no one.

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August 1963 Myers Flat, Humboldt County, California Class A #6961

Teen has daytime sighting near Myers Flat

The witness was hunting with two friends and hid alone in berry bushes to startle them. While waiting, the witness smelled a strong odor and saw a large hairy biped stand up nearby and walk away through thick brush, hearing snapping and leaf crunch as it left. The witness ran to the friends and later returned with them to find a squatted feeding spot and small broken trees.

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Summer 1963 Mendocino County, California Class A #2200

Ceature observed at playground

A group playing noisily on a campground playground at night noticed a strong rotting odor. They saw a tall brown hairy figure standing at the edge of the tree line about 50 feet from the nearest child, watching the activity. After being stared at for a short time, it walked back into the woods.

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Spring 1963 Brinnon WA, Jefferson County, Washington Class A #5299

Camping group has night time sighting near the Dosewallips River

The witness, then a teenager on a church group camping trip in the mountains, was sleeping apart from the group and watching the peaks. He noticed the jagged horizon looked smooth and swaying, realized it was the silhouette of a large standing animal at the foot of his sleeping bag, smelled a skunk-cabbage odor, hid under his bag, and later found it gone. Around the same time other children by a rock overhang shouted about seeing a big gorilla-like figure moving and walking away, which the adults dismissed.

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April 1962 Manistique, Schoolcraft County, Michigan Class A #24238

Man recalls multi-witness sighting in teen years near Manistique

Six youths walking along railroad tracks heard a loud guttural sound behind them and turned to see a tall hair-covered figure. The figure walked steadily across the tracks and down into swampy woods about 110 feet away without stopping. The group later went to where it entered the woods, noticed a strong rotten odor but found no tracks.

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7 July 1961 Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania Class A #12951

Possible encounter between a juvenile and a human child, near Gettysburg

The witness, then about 13, was playing hide-and-seek at night behind a hall when he backed around a target box into something. He turned and saw a human-like figure a little over five feet tall covered in long hair, with a strong musky odor, then ran to tell the other children. When the group went back to look, nothing was there.

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1960–1969 Kiefer, Creek County, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/16/sc-ep80-southern-sasquatch-encounters

Sasquatch sighting near Kiefer, Oklahoma (1960)

One night the guest joined his mother in the backyard where the family watchdog was whimpering at her feet while staring at cedar trees. He saw the same large outline standing behind a cedar tree. He estimated it at twelve to thirteen feet tall and believed it was the same animal seen before.

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1960–1969 Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/04/16/sc-ep316-two-guys-talking

Cryptid sighting (1960)

A family bought an old homestead where the son repeatedly said little people bothered him in the forest, horses refused the barn, and the barn smelled foul. One evening during dinner the son pointed to a bay window and the father saw a three-foot-tall hairy human-like being by an outdoor spigot apparently chattering to others below. It made eye contact, widened its eyes, leaned back, and dropped from view. The father later found a rock-covered hole in the barn opening to caverns with strong odor, and a neighbor warned that dwarves lived under the old ruined house.

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October 1959 Marysville And Grass Valley, Yuba County, California Class B #7211

Hunters Have Unusual Night Time Encounter

While deer hunting and camped overnight, the witness and a companion heard a very loud yelling-like scream from nearby woods and followed the companion's dogs with rifles. In a flashlight beam they saw a bipedal figure handling the dogs, throwing one, which then turned toward them and fled into trees with crashing brush and a lingering odor. They left the area that night and heard the vocalization again from farther off while packing.

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November 1958 Adario, Richland County, Ohio Class A #7425

A Teenager and His Dog Encounter an Ape-like Creature While Retrieving Their Trap Lines

A teenager checking muskrat traps before school with a dog noticed the dog staying close and growling. On a steep bank the witness saw a tall hair-covered figure with a non-human face and a foul smell. The figure quickly walked and ran away across a field, stepping over a six-foot gate without touching it. The witness left without finding tracks because the ground was frozen and snow later covered the area.

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1958 Arlington, Snohomish County, Washington Class A #1670

Large footprint find, large creature witnessed by a school bus driver

Two relatives living on a farm reported a strong odor in their dairy barn followed by footprints in the barn lot leading toward dense forest. A few days later additional tracks were found near a creek and plaster casts were made. At the time the residents said they had never heard of Bigfoot and interpreted the activity as contact with some kind of giant.

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October 1956 Washington County, Missouri Class A #1158

Child encounters a man-like creature in a shed

As a child the witness hid in an old corn crib during a hide-and-seek game near a relative's house at sundown. Inside the dark crib the witness heard heavy breathing and saw a huge hairy man-like creature standing over them staring, with a hog-pen-like smell. The witness ran back to the house crying and reported the encounter to a relative, who did not take it seriously.

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1948 Sol Duc Hot Springs, Clallam County, Washington Class A #1723

Mt. Olympus Incident

Four people were quietly walking horses along a trail in rainy conditions when a black creature about eight feet tall stood up from a stooped position beside the trail and ran away, leaving a foul odor. The group did not look for footprints.

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August 1943 Probably Central, Ashland County, Ohio Class A #5333

Man recalls being picked up as a child in Mohican Memorial Forest

When the witness was 5 years old and camping with his parents in central Ohio, he became lost in the woods. He claims a large hairy female creature picked him up, carried him quickly through the forest, and left him in camp with a heavy branch on his legs where his parents later found him. He says his parents dismissed his account as imagination and he did not share it widely for decades.

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1940–1949 St. Anthony, Idaho #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/11/03/sc-ep376-the-dog

Sasquatch sighting near St. Anthony, Idaho (1940)

As a young teenager bringing cows across a canal near dark, the diarist saw a large bear-like figure standing on hind feet by a sapling 600-700 feet away and felt intense chill. Cows were undisturbed and his father was unconcerned. Next morning with his friend [name withheld] he found a huge bare footprint in wet mud under the sapling, estimated 8.5-9 feet tall using [name withheld]'s height, and nearby found a stick-bed with a strong repulsive odor.

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1855 Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/05/24/sc-ep-107-terrorized-by-aggressive-giants

Sasquatch sighting in Oklahoma (1855)

After settling in Oklahoma, tribal members reported food thefts and disappearances attributed to man-like beasts. A party of 30 warriors rode out to a hilltop to confront them. In the fight the creatures were killed, but the captain and previously missing women and children were found dead and buried.

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1855 [name withheld] County, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/03/13/sc-ep200-the-200th-show-part-one

Sasquatch sighting near [name withheld] County (1855)

After thefts of food and disappearances of women and children, tribal leaders sent mounted warriors to confront man-like beasts. The party rode for hours and charged a group seen from a hilltop amid a strong smell of decay and a mound of victims. Gunfire and hand fighting left the creatures and their captain dead, and survivors buried the dead.

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1700–1799 Montana #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/07/27/sc-ep130-a-trapper-is-killed

Tracks in Montana (1700)

Two trappers set up camp to trap beaver and found their camp demolished and human-like tracks around it. At night they heard rustling, smelled a foul stench, fired a shot and heard something flee. After separating in the morning, one man found his partner dead with a broken neck and bite marks and fled, blaming a wild man.

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530 Place not stated Related account #676

Unidentified sound (530)

About two and a half hours later a mile downstream, the witness heard a commotion in gravel, smelled a strong unpleasant odor, and threw rocks without anything flushing.

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A couple of weeks prior to the vocals Place not stated Related account #12958

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A couple weeks before the vocal incident the wife smelled a foul sewage-like odor at her mailbox.

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