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1982–1983 Osage Beach, Missouri #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/lNS7OzLHAmwyeK_VKmSh_i-E7qEgjCUwSLRJGTaob0Q

Rock throwing near Osage Beach, Missouri (1982)

The guest and friends stayed midweek at a remote cabin near Osage Beach in August. At night the group had wood chunks and pebbles thrown at them and heard loud whooping, and companions heard splashing while night fishing. The next morning companions reported a hairy bear-like figure by fish guts, the woodpile was toppled, and a beaver dam was found destroyed with a pulled-apart carcass. While squirrel hunting along the creek the guest and his companion watched a five-foot ape-like creature wading and looking in the water, which approached his companion then left after clicking sounds were exchanged with another unseen individual.

Rock throwingObject throwingWhoopFootstepsFull-body sighting +3
1982–1983 Minnesota #0e4939bb-283b-4433-bb60-7a871a2483da

Sasquatch sighting in Minnesota (1982)

The witness had left a pack with clothes and snacks at his deer stand the day before opening weekend and had noticed snacks missing in prior years. Approaching the stand over a ridge, he heard banging and watched a small ape-like juvenile jumping on the stand, swinging from a branch and climbing the ladder for several minutes. When it noticed him it made a low distress call, followed by an extremely loud roar from a wooded island about 100 yards away that he felt in his chest. He fled immediately and returned about a week later to find the stand torn down and the pack and contents shredded over a wide area.

Full-body sightingVocalizationProperty disturbanceAnimal behaviour
27 September 1981 Place not stated #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/S20ftzITq_-sICYMgic1IxjP4d1lUqxBzu8YLWXHXgU

Tracks (1981)

A man went to a remote target-shooting pit after his friend did not return from sighting in a rifle. He found blood, a hat, a bent rifle and huge barefoot footprints on a hilltop and around the truck. The friend's body was folded under the dashboard inside the truck. Police were called and the death was reported as a bear attack.

TracksProperty disturbance
2 February 1981 Louellen, Harlan County, Kentucky Class A #10556

Two miners have nighttime sighting near Louellen

The witness and a companion were driving to work in the early morning when they saw an animal squatting by the road near dumped garbage. They watched it in the headlights as it moved backward into the road, looked at them, then squatted and leaped off the road into a ravine. A torn bag of garbage was found where it had been kneeling.

Full-body sightingProperty disturbance
1981–1982 Greene County, Pennsylvania #31526f64-b5d1-411c-a23b-6b18348a195f

Sasquatch sighting near Greene County (1981)

The witness and his friend camped and fished over a weekend at a remote creek below a ridge road. They experienced pebbles and rocks thrown, pacing, huffing, wood knocks, a disturbed fire pit and scattered poles. A large creature then came down the ridge into the creek, growled at them from about 20 yards, and left. A DNR officer later found prints, cast them, and called them bear tracks.

Full-body sightingGrowlRock throwingWood knockFootsteps +2
Spring 1981 Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma Class A #8678

Mother and sons have encounter with unidentified "prowler."

In the evening the witness and two family members were at home when a strong foul odor entered through open windows. A relative then saw a large hairy unclothed figure watching the house, chased it toward the chicken area where it carried a chicken, hit a wire fence and leapt over a brush pile to escape. Later a hairy face appeared in the living-room window, a storage building and freezer were found entered, and responding deputies found nothing.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingOdorProperty disturbance
11 October 1980 Fairview, Fleming County, Kentucky Class A #2382

Man fires shots at an unidentified man or animal near his back porch. Later he finds frozen meat littered about his back yard

The witness was home watching a baseball game when a strange noise from the back porch prompted investigation with a pistol. The witness reported seeing a large dark upright shadow-like figure running toward the woods, firing shots, then seeing it again near an old stable and firing again without hitting it. Afterwards the witness found a porch freezer broken into with frozen food scattered, plus white hairs and ground impressions.

SilhouetteFootstepsUnidentified soundTracksHair +2
3 October 1980 Keno, Klamath County, Oregon Class B #681

Footsteps heard outside of camper trailer near Bear Valley National Bald Eagle Refuge

The witness and a young relative spent the night in a camp trailer near the family house. Over several hours at night they heard heavy bipedal footsteps circling the trailer, brushing and clawing sounds on the siding, door and ceiling vent, and later blows to the trailer. The witness reported a brief glimpse of a long shaggy finger-like shape through the vent screen, and said the sounds withdrew when a car approached and returned later.

Partial sightingWhistleFootstepsDoor or window contactProperty disturbance
Spring 1980 Orlando, Orange County, Florida Class A #1275

Bigfoot rips door off of home. Witness has to flee from home

Late one night the witness was sitting on the porch at home alone with a dog when something was heard breaking through brush. The witness went inside for a rifle, heard the thing move to the back of the house and try the door, then fled through an orange grove, fell into a swamp and lost the rifle. After looking back and seeing a creature, the witness reached the road and got help, and friends later found the back door torn off.

Partial sightingUnidentified soundDoor or window contactProperty disturbanceOdor
earlier that summer Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/03/14/sc-ep200-the-200th-show-part-two

Property disturbance (1980)

Earlier the same summer the two men camped near the top of a mountain by an obvious cave. Something grabbed the front pole of their A-frame tent in the middle of the night and shook it repeatedly. One man struck upward with a cast iron pan, after which the shaking stopped and they stayed inside.

Property disturbanceUnidentified sound
1980 Bedford, Virginia #0ad7e1d7-18bc-473d-a117-acc5b0bf0906

Movement only near Bedford, Virginia (1980)

A woman on a farm near Bedford reported long-term poltergeist activity and in 1980 saw three colored balls of light at the foot of her bed that moved down the hall and into a room. Discolored circles were later found on the window screen and reportedly tested as highly irradiated. She reported illness afterward and later hip bone changes described as consistent with radiation.

Movement onlyProperty disturbance
1980–1984 Colorado #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/paZYw-XUCLfKpl7A9rvTIP9buFTNkiAheIwwpznWbnQ

Vocalization in Colorado (1980)

In the early 80s the father camped alone at a secluded bow camp and heard something large walk in talking gibberish like a drunk man and root through camp. It circled the tent and pressed a finger down on the canvas, leaving a half-moon cut, then left toward a second babbling voice on the hill. On a later return visit a green aspen blocked the road with no wind and structures were noted.

VocalizationFootstepsDoor or window contactProperty disturbanceTree break
1980–1985 Missouri #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/06/sc-ep53-finding-tracks-and-running-into-sasquatch

Property disturbance in Missouri (1980)

As retold from her mother, an uncle fled a remote farmhouse with his family after a creature harassed them, then returned with another uncle to find the interior destroyed. During the same period a small dog that ran into the dark was thrown hard against the house and survived but remained fearful outside afterward.

Property disturbanceObject throwing
1980–1989 South Carolina #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/02/01/sc-ep402-giant-chimpanzee-on-all-fours-chasing-the-deer

Door or window contact in South Carolina (1980)

The guest's mother had her front door destroyed by something trying to get inside in the early morning hours. She fired a rifle at it inside the house, suffering hearing loss, and later replaced the door with a metal door with two deadbolts.

Door or window contactProperty disturbance
1980–1984 Texas #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/07/31/sc-ep347-east-texas-encounter

Property disturbance in Texas (1980)

While squirrel hunting the witness ate part of a pack of crackers and left the rest on a stump. When he returned the next morning the crackers were gone and small white onion-like wildflowers had been left on the stump. He says this was when he began connecting his experiences.

Property disturbance
1980–1984 Virginia #05462760-445b-42b9-8818-e62fd11edf6a

UFO sighting in Virginia (1980)

A farm resident reported waking to three softball-sized colored orbs hovering in line at the foot of her bed, moving in formation down a hallway and into a dining room before disappearing. Next morning she found three circular discolored spots on a window screen. A team radiochemist analysis reportedly found high irradiation and neutron flux effects, and she later reported flu-like illness and porous hip bone described as radiation-like.

Full-body sightingProperty disturbance
1980–1989 Crater Lake, Klamath County, Oregon Class A #8025

Camper has night sighting near Crater Lake

The witness was camping with relatives south of Crater Lake and sleeping alone in a tent at night. While lying in a sleeping bag, the witness heard footsteps approach from the wooded side and saw a human-like outline shadowed in a distant campfire glow. The figure bumped the corner of the tent, shaking it, paused as if staring, then moved toward the front where it could no longer be heard on pavement.

Partial sightingSilhouetteFootstepsProperty disturbance
September 1979 Detroit, Red River County, Texas Class A #8083

Boy encounters bigfoot while fishing on a pond just north of Detroit

The witness was fishing alone at a pond in the evening when the birds went silent and he felt watched. He saw a large dark hairy biped step from cedars to a fence about 60 yards away and watch him from beside a tree. He fled leaving his gear, and returned the next morning to find the tackle disturbed and the stringer of fish gone except for one fish head.

Full-body sightingProperty disturbance
September 1979 Weed, Siskiyou County, California Class B #5220

Son and step Father have a strange encounter on the north/east side of Mt.Shasta

The witness and a relative were camping in a remote wooded area when the witness was awakened around 3 a.m. by noises around the truck, including an ice chest being knocked over and a violent impact that rocked the vehicle, followed by a loud piercing scream-like sound. The relative also woke, and in the morning they found the camp in disarray with a dozen eggs missing, the empty carton later found away from camp, and a dent in the truck. No creature was seen and no tracks were found, and the pair stayed up until morning before leaving.

ScreamVehicle contactProperty disturbance
June 1979 Place not stated Related account #28740

Chatter (1979)

While camping with companions the group heard unintelligible chatter from across a lake, later had small rocks lobbed near them, and the witness saw the head and upper body of a dark hair-covered creature at close range.

ChatterRock throwingPartial sightingProperty disturbance