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1980–1989 Tallahena #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/05/04/sc-ep100-the-hunter-or-the-hunted

Sasquatch sighting near Tallahena (1980)

The guest retells a story told to him by a young coworker about a childhood encounter in the 1980s. The coworker and his brother had built a fort near home where they played daily. One day a large hairy figure rose up and spread trees apart to look at them from about twelve feet away, after which the boys never returned to the fort.

Full-body sighting
1980–1984 New York #4c19da08-4eb0-4247-8b01-27b22f8ae722

UFO sighting in New York (1980)

The witness and family members saw a large silent saucer-shaped craft with lights hovering over a valley behind their rural home. Neighbors joined them on the veranda until about 15 to 20 people were watching. The craft rose and vanished instantly.

Full-body sighting
1980–1989 Pennsylvania #68d95401-bd1f-4387-bc24-4f376b18e26d

Sasquatch sighting in Pennsylvania (1980)

The witness was seated in a high tree stand on family hunting land on the opening day of deer season. Two large hairy creatures ambushed deer on a game trail, killing two does instantly by breaking their necks. The larger creature then approached the stand, smelled the witness, looked up and vocalized loudly while touching the stand and holding a deer, then both left silently into the woods. The witness was left in shock and had to be carried back to the cabin by his father.

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1980–1981 New Jersey #0303c0f7-cf80-404b-ae8e-4e525e901be2

Sasquatch sighting in New Jersey (1980)

The witness was hiking with companions through woods toward a familiar spring when they noticed a large dome-shaped structure woven from vegetation beside a water-filled fire cut, with a partially consumed deer carcass inside. Shortly after examining the carcass from across the cut, the group heard movement and saw a very tall, muscular, reddish-brown hair-covered being standing in the open about 30 to 40 feet away. The being emitted an extremely loud, escalating scream that the witness felt in the chest, then lunged toward the group. The group fled back along the trail without looking back until reaching near home, and did not report the event to family at the time.

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1980–1989 Massachusetts #5793eb91-d33b-45e6-a663-705de133e5c8

Sasquatch sighting in Massachusetts (1980)

Four campers at October Mountain heard rustling in the bushes for about two hours and felt it was not normal animal behavior. They investigated and saw a tall broad-shouldered creature. They then fled the area.

Full-body sighting
1980–1989 Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/12/14/sc-ep65-three-sasquatch-encounters

Sasquatch sighting (1980)

A friend of the witness's father was photographing deer in his backyard when a strange upright figure was captured. The witness later saw the print with his brother and described it as a skinny upright teddy-bear-like figure with monkey-like facial features and gray skin around the mouth. The picture could not be scanned and was described as floating around among acquaintances.

Full-body sighting
1980 Crockett, Houston County, Texas Class A #2400

While looking into the woods witness saw creature watching them

As children playing in a wooded area, the witness and a cousin were standing by a pond when the witness noticed a black hairy creature standing in the woods watching them. After showing it to the cousin, both children ran away. The witness told parents afterward and never saw the creature again.

Full-body sighting
1980–1989 Orchard, Texas #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/06/sc-ep53-finding-tracks-and-running-into-sasquatch

Sasquatch sighting near Orchard, Texas (1980)

As children playing at the grandmother's house, the witness and four other children noticed what looked like a bush in a pasture where none should be. It stood up and walked toward the river direction. They ran inside to tell the grandmother.

Full-body sightingMovement only
1980–1989 Tennessee #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/TSom5b4VZXPaXcHqhX6Okop_It5_GjCVQMhe6zJwH6s

Sasquatch sighting in Tennessee (1980)

Years later while working in law enforcement, the witness drove to a remote trailhead to pick up a fire-watcher ranger during a dry fall with active forest fires. Concerned when the ranger did not appear after dark, he walked up the trail with a flashlight and rifle and found the ranger hiding by a rock. Together they watched a tall, long-armed figure with large reflective eyes at the far edge of a clearing for an extended period before it crouched, raked grass, backed into the woods, and circled away crashing through brush. The ranger later said he had already encountered the same figure on the trail, where it screamed at him, caused him to drop his kit, and threw his bag, which was never recovered.

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

Sasquatch sighting in Texas (1980)

While walking along the creek the witness saw a large dark shape lying under a pine tree about 50 yards away. He approached slowly to about 30 yards, when it jumped up onto two legs and left very quickly. He first thought of an escaped gorilla, found mashed-down grass where it lay, and continued hunting.

Full-body sighting
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 Packwood, Lewis County, Washington Related account #5453

Sasquatch sighting near Packwood, Washington (1980)

A motorist braked and swerved to avoid a large hairy animal squatting in the road that stood on two legs and left the road.

Full-body sighting
Summer 1980 Sunriver, Deschutes County, Oregon Class A #667

Witnesss saw a large, light reddish brown, hairy man standing in the road shielding it's eyes from the headlights of her car

The witness was driving home at night in summer 1980 with family asleep in the car when a light-colored, hairy, male figure emerged from roadside trees and stopped in the headlights. She stopped the car and observed it face-to-face, noting its size, musculature, long head hair, facial hair, and strong odor before it walked off the road. Her companions slept through the event.

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15 December 1979 St. Libory, (20 Miles N Of Grand Island), Howard County, Nebraska Class A #15615

Creature seen walking across pasture in daylight north of Grand Island

The witness was in his pickup at the mailbox on a very cold, windy winter morning when he noticed movement in a pasture about a quarter-mile away. He watched for about 10 to 12 seconds as a large, dark-brown, long-haired, man-like figure with long arms took large steps south toward a shelterbelt, glanced toward him, then moved faster and disappeared into the trees. He did not go to look for tracks in the snow because he was afraid.

Full-body sighting
December 1979 Richmond County, Georgia Class A #2218

Man approached at close range by man/ape creature at Fort Gordon, US Army Signal School

In the early afternoon the witness was about to enter brush ringing a stream inlet when a very tall, hair-covered human-like figure came within about 20 feet at a slow walk. The witness described its size, hair, facial features and muscular build, noting it was defensive but not threatening and made no sound. The witness withdrew to a truck without being followed, and also noted a very large track, sand mounds, possible vomit and scat, and bark damage in the same area.

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10 November 1979 Naples, Ontario County, New York Class A #7368

Morning sighting by deer hunter near Naples

As a teenager pushing deer for his father on a hunting trip, the witness rested against a fallen tree in a gully. After hearing a branch snap, he saw a tall, dark, hair-covered figure standing on the opposite ridge about 30 feet away, which watched him for several minutes before taking a step toward him. The witness fled on foot to the road and waited for his father, who did not believe the account.

Full-body sighting
November 1979 Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana Class A #21821

Daytime Sighting by Caver West of Lake Monroe

The witness was waiting above ground while two companions explored a pit, sitting reading in a jeep in a grassy clearing. He noticed a dark form moving in the treeline and called out, thinking it was the landowner, then moved to a power-line opening for a clearer view. The figure paused and stared for about 10 seconds, appearing as a 6-7 foot tall biped covered in long dark brown fur/hair, before walking away into the trees.

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November 1979 Direct, Lamar County, Texas Class A #7758

Road encounter with bigfoot near Direct, Texas

Two people driving on a gravel road at night saw a tall gray-haired biped cross the road in front of their car and step over a barbed-wire fence. The animal moved slowly and showed no reaction to the vehicle. After driving on, the pair got stuck turning around in a wheat field, then drove back past the site without seeing the creature again.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
November 1979 Texas #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/01/28/sc-ep401-retired-police-officers-encounter

Sasquatch sighting in Texas (1979)

As a ten-year-old the guest and four friends had been bringing food daily to a veteran camping in a dirt bike bowl. On Thanksgiving night the camper shouted for them to get away and threw the food aside, and a large hairy long-armed creature emerged from the woods. The children fled, leaving a bike, and later found the camp intact but the man gone.

Full-body sighting
20 October 1979 Pembine, Marinette County, Wisconsin Class A #48085

Memory told of a sighting by a father and two sons grouse hunting at dawn near Pembine

The witness and two family members were heading out grouse hunting in the early morning when a dark, very large form crossed the road ahead of them where there were no houses or side roads. The figure walked upright with a leaning gait and long swinging arms and was watched for about five seconds. At the time the father doubted the identification, but decades later he agreed with the younger witnesses that it had been a Bigfoot.

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