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15 August 1978 2 Miles From Slade. 52 Miles Southeast Of Lexington, Powell County, Kentucky Class A #912

While observing a footprint, youth looks off the path to see shiny haired creature looking at him

In August 1978 a 10-year-old camping with family walked alone at dusk to fetch ice. On a muddy road the witness smelled a strong odor and found a single large bare five-toed footprint, then noticed a dark hairy biped 50 to 80 yards away across a stream that walked gracefully into the treeline in a few seconds. The witness ran back to camp, and relatives later saw the same footprint.

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Summer 1976 Winchester And Richmond, Clark County, Kentucky Class A #2381

Boy has evening sighting while bike riding with brothers near Booneboro River

On a warm summer evening, brothers were playing in a wooded hillside area. One brother ran out of the woods screaming that he had seen a hairy monster. When the others went back with him, nothing was visible but a strong rotten smell lingered and very large human-like footprints were found in soft ground near a spring. Adults dismissed the account, but the brother maintained the claim years later.

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1975 Spottsville, Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/22/sc-ep51-spottsville-monster-part-1

Sasquatch sighting near Spottsville, Kentucky (1975)

In 1975 the witness's family living near Spottsville, Kentucky experienced repeated activity over many months. She described hearing loud limb breaks and an elephant-like scream, smelling a dead-like odor, finding footprints, and losing livestock and pets with entrails removed. She twice saw an 8-foot hairy figure on the property, and four armed relatives fired from the roof as the figure ran past a barn and jumped a fence unaffected.

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1973 Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/OxWGFnMaBANz91pZyraU_fyUy90HE9u7L06r7QW5K9w

Tracks in Kentucky (1973)

The following spring the grandfather woke the guest and his brother on Easter morning to show deep large footprints in mud outside the bedroom window trailing to the parents window and front porch. To keep the mother from seeing them the grandfather had the boys wash the tracks away with well water. Later that day the brothers found matching large tracks in the field where the 1972 figure stood, measured one at about 19 inches, then heard an owl-like hoot tapering to a growl and fled.

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Fall 1972 Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky Class A #26605

Man recalls early morning sighting while squirrel hunting near Salyersville

The witness was sitting quietly while squirrel hunting in Magoffin County in late September 1972 when he saw a large reddish-brown creature about 70 yards away. The creature walked away on two legs from right to left, pausing briefly to look around before continuing out of sight, apparently unaware of the witness. Afterward the witness found several large human-shaped footprints where the creature had walked.

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around 1966 or 1967 Ransom, Pike County, Kentucky Related account #30814

Tracks near Ransom, Kentucky

As a child the witness and family found many large humanlike tracks in snow leading from the steep hillside to the house.

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BFRO YEAR: early90s PIKEVILLE, Pike County, Kentucky Class B #4624

Two teens find prints in the snow near Kimper

Two teenagers hiking in snowy hills found very large bare footprints that ended after a short distance. Frightened, they returned home without looking up to see what made them. The witness still wonders whether something was above in the trees.

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June, 18, 2014 Bowling Green, Logan County, Kentucky Related account #46334

Tracks near Bowling Green, Kentucky

Witness found large and small footprints along old wagon road near creek merge and took photos.

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The next day Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky Related account #27589

Tracks near Louisa, Kentucky

The next day the witness and a relative searched the hill, noted apparent bedding spots, and found a very large human-like footprint on an old logging path.

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The next day Jessamine County, Kentucky Related account #46624

Tracks near Jessamine County

The next day the witness found a large partial footprint and has found human-like feces and vanishing blackberry bushes around the farm.

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Date unknown Kentucky #6e9c6cb9-4e1d-4cc4-92d8-28bd1d0c15df

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

The guest's hunter uncle joined family members to look for the creature near the pond after dark. A figure stood up very close with its arms raised and the uncle fired a carbine, believing he hit it under the arms. The creature made a loud noise and fled, leaving fatty bloody material but no blood trail, only footprints and broken vegetation.

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just not long after that Kentucky #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/WtFQ26iXg9n27YpYvzbDxofzlPmR0bD6ZD8d9XfyJfQ

Partial sighting in Kentucky

Not long after the shooting, a neighboring couple were at home at night when a creature came to their windows and peered in, moving from one window to another. The husband retrieved weapons but found nothing that night. Next morning in daylight with light snow they found tracks all around the house, concentrated where it had stood at windows, and law enforcement declined to respond.

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in the third grade Kentucky #9bdb0699-2477-4b65-b7ca-a51f1a3bc0f2

Tracks in Kentucky

As a third-grader kept home by snow, the witness walked to a neighbor's mailbox and noticed huge footprints in single file with a very long stride. He reported them to his mother, who suggested deer, which he rejected as implausible.

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dead of winter Owensboro, Kentucky #4a2bd381-ea8b-47d0-bf1e-5514668f86e1

Tracks near Owensboro, Kentucky

In winter the guest walked through a cleared deer plot in the ravine area. In a muddy thawed patch he found a fresh bare footprint about four to five inches long. He reasoned no child would be barefoot there in winter and took it to suggest a family group.

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Date unknown Owensboro, Kentucky #4a2bd381-ea8b-47d0-bf1e-5514668f86e1

Wood knock near Owensboro, Kentucky

On later return visits the guest tried wood knocking and got responses. He found partly washed-out 16-18 inch footprints inside the barn and, while hiking, noticed possible nests or bedding areas and tree breaks throughout the woods.

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probably about a year, maybe a year, a couple of months ago Kentucky #89f89cba-a9ed-42c3-bb27-c65487a403e4

Tracks in Kentucky

The two hikers describe finding a large partial footprint while off trail along a river about a year before the main night encounter. Only the front half with visible toes was preserved. They questioned why anyone would hoax a print so far from maintained trails.

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maybe a week later Kentucky #f7bfe408-1485-4234-ad06-3c2c7e371719

Tracks in Kentucky

The couple hiked an overgrown middle trail where many deer, coyote and other animal tracks were visible. Near a small field they found one full bare-looking right footprint and a partial print showing only toes and ball with no heel or claws. They photographed the prints and continued on.

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a couple days later Kentucky #f7bfe408-1485-4234-ad06-3c2c7e371719

Partial sighting in Kentucky

The younger son came from outside saying a face had appeared on the hill by the fence and then was gone. After the father returned from work the family inspected the spot and found a large foot-shaped impression in tall grass, an area of flattened grass behind the fence, and a plain trail leading up the hill into the woods.

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almost two years ago Kentucky #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/12/06/sc-ep171-it-was-acting-like-a-crazy-person-throwing-a-tantrum

Sasquatch sighting in Kentucky

The guest and a friend were walking a remote field in Kentucky to look for artifacts and re-examine barefoot-like prints found the prior days. From several hundred yards away they watched a hair-covered biped stand up, pace near the treeline, flail its arms, puff its chest, and repeatedly pick up dirt clods to sling toward them. The pair kept their distance and walked out to the road, feeling the animal was agitated and territorial and did not follow them.

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Date unknown Kentucky #1f8ff7cc-97e6-40e2-a370-dd815123b81f

Tracks in Kentucky

Another local man out bow hunting for the first time stepped through a barbed-wire fence and looked down to see a large track. He stepped back, gave up the hunt, and never went bow hunting again.

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