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November 1997 Panguitch, Garfield County, Utah Class A #17287

Evening road crossing north of Panquitch

The witness was driving at night through Circleville Canyon when headlights revealed a large hairy figure at the roadside. The figure stood and ran across the highway in front of the car, moving quickly with a smooth, non-bouncing gait and long arms, then disappeared into darkness. The witness did not stop to look for tracks.

Road crossingFull-body sighting
15 September 1997 Eden, Liberty, Weber County, Utah Class A #5813

Family members see large, hairy bi-ped walking along mountain road

The witness was riding in a car with two relatives driving back over a mountain pass late at night. They encountered a tall, dark, hairy figure walking on and across the road. After a companion shouted at it from the car, the figure kept walking without changing pace and left the road up into the mountains.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
1997–1999 Utah #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/Z1QkvkCDe_1gy9oXbfkCLuZVvOJ8g6YJetf8Y7Gp24k

Sasquatch sighting in Utah (1997)

A radio caller reported seeing a white hairy biped while walking on the same shoreline trail in the late nineties. The guest heard the call years later and took it as confirmation of his own family encounter in the same place.

Full-body sighting
May 1996 Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah Class A #2352

Hiker has daylight sighting in Grove Creek Canyon

The witness was hiking into Grove Creek Canyon in the afternoon when they saw a large reddish animal on the canyon rim about 100 feet above. The figure was described as about as tall as a large man and was looking east up the canyon for about five seconds. It then turned and walked out of view, and was not seen again during the rest of the hike.

Full-body sighting
7 July 1994 Summit County, Utah Class A #1951

Boy scouts see a tall creature walking fluidly while hiking at night

Three camp counselors were walking a trail at night when the narrator saw a tall, dark bipedal figure moving across a slope on the far side of a stream about 50-60 ft away. The figure passed near the group without answering their shouts, and a companion heard a rock-clacking stepping sound as it moved toward the stream ahead of them. The frightened group retreated to trees, waited until about 1 a.m., then continued out armed with sticks, finding no tracks afterward.

Full-body sightingFootsteps
May 1994 Boulder, Garfield County, Utah Class A #2115

White creature in Utah desert exhibits scouting behavior on ridge above hikers

Two hikers crossing a bench toward Deer Creek noticed a large white human-like figure pacing on a high rocky rise. It appeared to notice them and ducked behind rocks out of view. After continuing downslope, they felt watched, looked back, and saw it watching them again before it ducked down.

Full-body sighting
1987–1989 Utah #23b15719-4b2f-49f3-bdc0-1b8162e51ee6

Dogman sighting in Utah (1987)

As a small child the witness wandered away from family while they were cliff-jumping and camping and became lost near high cliffs. At dusk the forest went silent and she saw a large dark bipedal creature across the gorge staring at her. Her father found her, saw the same creature, told her to stay quiet, and ran with her back to camp where others were searching.

Full-body sightingEyeshineAnimal behaviour
1984 Utah #6495c462-5544-4860-b11c-ea9c66a382c7

Scream in Utah (1984)

The witness, then about 12, was deer hunting with his father, brother and uncles at a mountain camp. Over several nights a loud screaming vocalization was heard around 9 p.m. and the uncles repeatedly chased the source uphill. One uncle confronted a very tall hair-covered biped at close range and fired over its head, while later nights brought a spotlight glimpse of a large dark mass, a small 4-foot figure, answering calls from another ridge, uprooted trees and reddish hair tufts, before the activity moved away.

ScreamFootstepsFull-body sightingPartial sightingEyeshine +2
19 October 1977 Ogden, Cache County, Utah Class A #16470

Husband and wife recall daylight sighting while scouting for deer near Cave Spring off of Monte Cristo

In 1977 the witness and his family were camped in the Utah mountains a couple days before hunting season. While scouting with his wife in the afternoon, a reddish-brown creature about 7 to 8 feet tall stepped out about 20 yards away, watched them for about 10 seconds, and was gone when they looked again. That night after snowfall the witness heard something moving around the tent, and the next morning huge tracks were found circling the tent.

Full-body sightingFootstepsTracks
15 September 1976 Brigham City & Logan, Box Elder County, Utah Class A #1436

Sighting by Grouse Hunters

The witness and a companion were hiking in upland terrain when they separated on opposite sides of a draw. The witness heard a loud crash and rapid thudding sounds, then saw a tall hairy figure running toward the companion from several hundred yards away. After shouting warnings and a shotgun shot, the figure reversed direction and left, and both hikers departed quickly.

Full-body sightingUnidentified sound
Spring 1962 Ogden, Weber County, Utah Class A #9962

Daylight sighting off Highway 89 in the Wasatch Mountains

During a family picnic in the Wasatch Mountains, a five-year-old playing hide-and-seek ran around a mound and encountered a large hair-covered figure about 30 feet away beside a tree. The two watched each other briefly before the child broke the stare and ran screaming back to the picnic area. Adults suggested a deer or bobcat and found nothing on re-check, but the child saw the figure again in the same spot while the group was leaving.

Full-body sighting
Late June, early July of 2017 Naples, Utah #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/emxwtZ2Fw-5pmgp2LbbBKp6yQuE0M6VuF9UCVxWFsX0

Sasquatch sighting near Naples, Utah

A helicopter pilot and lineman hovering over a forest clearing watched a very large biped and a smaller one, then a tiny one climb onto the smaller one's back and two more small ones that quickly disappeared. The large one stared then stepped back into trees.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour
Date unknown Utah #080edaf7-f5bb-4cf2-b93f-abd0019a8cd0

Dogman sighting in Utah

The guest described an incident on a ranch property where the caretaker and a visitor saw upright canine-like animals along the fence. The animals jumped the fence onto the property. The men fired at them with no apparent effect, and the caretaker left the job after the incident.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Utah #9fe086a7-26f8-4a2e-8a0d-249644ae0b1b

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

A hunting guide walking quickly ahead of his hunter to retrieve a truck encountered a tall figure standing ahead on the trail. When spoken to, it turned, backed into trees, and watched him as he gave it a wide berth. He radioed the others to keep moving, later told the witness in camp, and downplayed it to the hunter as a bear.

Full-body sighting
when we were 18, 19 Utah #beb7de0d-b82b-4357-8e07-0ca6cbffbf25

Cryptid sighting in Utah

While driving a Jeep with the top off on a remote dirt road, the witness group saw a large dark bird-like figure sitting on a hillside. As they approached it spread its wings, glided over the Jeep about ten feet above, and showed an eagle-like beak and brown color with a wingspan described as extending several feet beyond both ends of the Jeep.

Full-body sighting
when I was 14, 15 Utah #beb7de0d-b82b-4357-8e07-0ca6cbffbf25

Rock throwing in Utah

At a scout camp, the witness and a friend had small rocks and pine cones thrown at them while fishing. A few hours later at camp, the group saw an all-black figure moving swiftly and fluidly across a steep rocky hillside with no trails about half a mile above them.

Rock throwingObject throwingFull-body sighting
this summer, it will be four years ago Utah #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/Z1QkvkCDe_1gy9oXbfkCLuZVvOJ8g6YJetf8Y7Gp24k

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

The younger guest ran ahead on a trail during a family night hike and saw a brownish creature taller than his father. He screamed for his father, and the creature ran away through scrub oak trees. The father did not see it but heard very loud crashing as it left. Both later recalled seeing distant lights on a ridge that they first thought were flashlights.

Full-body sightingEyeshineMovement only
a couple of years later after first encounter Utah #ebc3b6f0-083a-405b-9698-424e91654384

Dogman sighting in Utah

The witness was night fishing with his brother and a friend when movement in dense cattails prompted him to throw concrete that struck something with a loud thud and exhale. They saw high amber-red eyeshine, then fled to their lifted pickup as a large snout-faced biped chased them. It reached toward the tailgate and kept pace on two and four legs for several hundred yards until they detoured around the lake to escape.

Full-body sightingEyeshineVocalizationVehicle contact
about when I was 18 Utah #ebc3b6f0-083a-405b-9698-424e91654384

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

The witness and two young relatives rode dirt bikes up an unfamiliar trail while camping and stopped near the treeline. The cousin went ahead, then dropped to the ground shouting to run as a whole tree with root ball flew horizontally over him. The witness saw a huge dark man-like figure uphill that turned and disappeared very quickly, after which they retrieved the abandoned bike and left camp.

Full-body sightingObject throwing
when I was like 14 or 15 Utah #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/kTDgzxKGmJusUbFfUiu5FEkGl-kZ7GWDLMMvIOBm3kQ

Sasquatch sighting in Utah

As teenagers the witness and a friend hiked toward a low reservoir inlet to fish. They saw a hairy form hunched over digging in willows below them. It stood partly up and ran away bipedally through brush too thick for a person.

Full-body sighting