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Sasquatch sighting near Lake Of The Ozarks, Missouri (1961)
During a family stay at a remote lake cabin the witness's stringer of catfish was found cleaned and lined up. Exploring uphill along a stream he watched a small hairy human-like figure play in a dammed pool, smash crawdads together and eat them. When it beckoned him closer he backed away and returned to the cabin without telling anyone.
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.
Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque
In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.
Tracks (1959)
Nine experienced student hikers camped on the slope of Dead Mountain during a certification trek and rushed out of their tent at night into severe cold in minimal clothing. Searchers later found the tent cut open with belongings inside and lines of footprints leading toward the woods. Five bodies were found between camp and forest and four more buried under deep snow in a ravine with severe fractures and missing soft tissue. Authorities attributed the deaths to an unknown compelling force and closed access to the area.
Memory told of a possible encounter while camping with Girl Scouts in the Pine Barrens
The witness was camping overnight with a large scout group near a lake when a large pot of food disappeared from camp. Throughout the night the group heard bushes thrashing, repeated tree knocks, and loud long whistles coming from different sides of the camp. Counselors kept everyone by the fire until daylight, when another scout group helped them leave and police were called but reportedly found nothing.
Tracks (1950)
A logger returned in the morning to find a bulldozer badly damaged with smashed windows, torn engine compartment and dents all around. Large boot-like prints were noted in the solid ground. He attributed the damage to what he called the big man.
Property disturbance in Kentucky (1950)
The guest said research indicated that in the 1950s a creature raided local livestock, prompting the sheriff to form a posse. The posse chased it around the county but never found it.
Property disturbance (1948)
As a boy, the coworker and his family experienced prolonged territorial activity at their ranch. The creatures tried doors, dug under the house, got on the roof, and used distraction. Several loggers on the land were killed, including one who vanished leaving only a torn bloody shirt.
Sasquatch sighting near Ruby Creek (1941)
A mother home with three children saw a large man-like creature approaching. The family fled to a nearby village while the creature broke into the house, destroyed property and ate stored fish. The husband later found large humanoid tracks, hair and blood around the house.
Sasquatch sighting near Luray, Virginia (1936)
A construction crew camped in a Virginia valley in the mid-1930s reported repeated visits by large hairy beings that stole food, left huge footprints, and were seen felling and dragging trees. Early one August morning in 1936 a being reached into a tent and pulled a sleeping worker out by the ankle. Other workers threw hand axes and chased it with rifles and shotguns, firing many shots without killing it, after which sentries were posted day and night.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1924)
Five miners were sleeping in their log cabin when multiple creatures attacked through the night. The beings threw rocks, tried to force the door, climbed on the roof, and dug underneath. At dawn the creatures left, and the shaken men hiked out to get help.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1924)
Five miners in 1924 reported poltergeist-like activity around their mine and cabin, including voices, machinery sounds, an apported pencil and isolated footprints. After one miner reportedly shot a creature, several creatures allegedly attacked the cabin at night throwing rocks and trying to enter. Only left footprints were reported the next morning.
Albert Ostman account -- Multiple-day encounter with family of Sasquatches
A prospector camping alone in coastal mountains awoke at night to being carried inside his sleeping bag for hours to a small enclosed valley. There he encountered four hair-covered individuals described as a family group and was held for about six days living on remaining canned food. He gained favor with the younger ones using snuff and handmade utensils, then incapacitated the adult male with a large dose of snuff and escaped during the resulting commotion, hiking south to a logging camp for help.
Property disturbance (1924)
The well-known 1924 Ape Canyon incident is summarized as Sasquatches attacking a cabin of miners seeking a land claim. The miners reportedly gave up the claim and abandoned the area.
Sasquatch sighting near Springfield, Pennsylvania (1906)
Residents reported a hair-covered animal sometimes upright and sometimes moving on all fours at racehorse speed with a leaping stride. Heavy steel bear traps set and wired to an oak were found sprung with bait eaten, wire snapped, ground torn, and traps dragged rods away. Later explanations blaming a dog or disguised man were followed by continued reports.
Sasquatch sighting near Roseburg, Oregon (1904)
Miners reported a seven-foot hairy wild man repeatedly shaking cabins at night and making frightful noise. Shots failed to stop it. On one morning it shook a door, was shot at, and retaliated by throwing a four-pound rock before vanishing.
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.
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.
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.
Property disturbance
A relative who operated a nearby turkey farm found penned turkeys with heads and necks missing after they stuck through wire.