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Sasquatch sighting in North Carolina (1957)
The witness, then about 12, was hunting squirrels alone in the woods behind his childhood home. After crossing a creek bridge into thick regrowth he heard rhythmic leaf-rustling and pushed through brush to within a few feet of a very large cinnamon-brown hairy animal lying flat asleep. He watched its breathing move leaves, could see only its back with legs tucked under, then backed out fearing it was a bull and told no one for decades.
Sasquatch sighting in Louisiana (1955)
As a youth hunting with a small dog, the witness followed the dog down a creek and found a long dark form lying in a dugout in the bank. Looking closer the witness saw feet, a bleeding leg with sand piled on it, breathing and grumbling, and a large hand thrown behind it like a resting person. Frightened, the witness carried the dog away quietly then ran home.
Memory told of a possible childhood encounter at Georgefield Barracks
The witness was staying at home with her older sister while her parents were out. After hearing movement outside and seeing a large head at the window, she opened the front door, turned on the porch light, and came face to face with a tall hair-covered figure. Her middle sister arrived and ran toward the figure, which then left and quickly disappeared. The sisters did not discuss the incident at the time and only recalled it decades later.
Sasquatch sighting near Orleans (1952)
A logger driving alone at night to collect a coworker saw a figure by the road and then a face in the mirror. He found a small tree blocking the road and, after getting out, heard running footsteps as a creature charged and backed off repeatedly. The creature tried to push the car off the road before the driver escaped, and the coworker later reported a similar push.
Camp cook sees a sasquatch at a logging camp while loggers were away from camp
A cook at a remote logging camp reportedly saw a being she described as a sasquatch while the crew was away cutting trees. The account is presented as a long-circulating story among local old residents, said to date to the early 1950s. No visual details of the being are given in the report.
Creature seen by witnesses
The reporter recounts childhood stories from older relatives about a creature inhabiting a swampy, logged area. One story describes relatives and companions seeing a strange human-like figure beside their dying fire. Other stories describe loggers abandoning work in fright and hunting dogs being attacked and disappearing for days.
Mother relates story of daughter sighting a large animal near Mill A School
Three girls were playing in a schoolyard when they noticed a figure watching them. The girls were frightened and ran home. One of them later said she knew it was not a bear because of its kind eyes.
Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1949)
A group of young people were swimming when one girl sitting at a picnic table screamed after seeing a large hairy figure watching through bushes. When she screamed it replaced the branches to cover its face and left. She was hysterical and only described what she saw after calming down elsewhere.
Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1949)
The driver was going home alone on a cold rainy night and caught a brief glimpse in the headlights of a very large hairy figure standing in bushes off the road. Something long with hanging white hair appeared to be tucked under its arm. Days later the driver learned an elderly neighbor who kept goats had disappeared and a separate violent death had occurred nearby.
Memory told of encounter at a remote cabin at Sandy Run
The main witness was sleeping in the front room of a remote lakeside cabin with a relative when she awoke at night to the porch screen door opening and footsteps. She watched a large, red-haired, bipedal figure pass three front windows and pause at the door to peer inside, bending down to look in. Frightened, she fled to sleep with her grandparents and did not speak of the incident for years.
Sasquatch sighting in California (1943)
The guest's grandfather and his brother were in the Bald Hill area during logging-era hunting. While sleeping in their car, a large ape-like creature bent down and looked in the window, leaving handprints. The grandfather kept photos of the prints and never forgot the incident.
Woman recounts a tale her Grandfather told her about a frightening incident near Horseshoe Lake
In fall 1925, two brothers were walking to duck blinds at sunrise near a lake in Louisiana with a kerosene lamp. They noticed two red reflections in the treeline that approached them, revealing a furry, lumbering figure with red eyes reflecting the light. When it came within a few feet, the brothers dropped their gear and fled home in fear.
Tracks in Washington (1924)
Five miners prospecting near Mount St. Helens found large tracks and later shot at a creature watching near a tree. That night multiple creatures attacked their cabin, throwing rocks and trying to enter from all sides including the roof. The men fired back until just before dawn when the creatures left.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1924)
Before the July holiday, two of the miners saw a creature peeking from behind a cedar tree near their workings. They fired three shots that stripped bark from the tree. They later mentioned this incident to family when visiting town.
Sasquatch sighting near Evanston, Illinois (1919)
A newspaper article described a place called Devil's Hole in lonely woods where a thick-bodied, long-armed hairy half-beast called the Gorilla Moron was said to haunt. It was claimed to have attacked dozens of women within a year, leaving many unconscious. The specific attack on two student nurses detailed in the same article was stated by the reteller to have been by human muggers, separate from the hairy-figure reports.
UFO sighting in North Carolina (1913)
Local observers reported red lights seen nightly just above the horizon. The lights were said to appear at fixed evening times and the information was attributed to a longtime local resident.
Sighting along side of road by teens walking home from a party
The witness's great-aunt recounted that as a young girl around 1905 she and two siblings were walking home from a party at night when they saw a dark-haired, man-like thing sitting in a field beside the road. The entity silently watched them and turned its head as they passed, its eyes reflecting the moonlight. The three walked home arm in arm, with one looking back to check if it was following.
Sasquatch sighting near Sixes, Oregon (1904)
In 1904 near Sixes miners reported a wild man seen three times in three weeks. Two men heard something walk around and shake their cabin corner, heard a frightful noise, saw it walk away, shot and missed. Later a similar visit at dawn ended with the creature hurling a four-pound rock after being shot at.
Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1891)
A young newly married woman was at a seasonal fishing camp on the reservation when she was seized and carried into the mountains by a male Sasquatch-like being. Witnesses reportedly watched the abduction but did not shoot for fear of retaliation. After spending time in the mountains digging potatoes for her captor, she escaped when she saw horsemen and rode down to a temporary camp, which then broke camp and fled to the valley.
Sasquatch sighting
Other people in a nearby village report seeing or hearing a similar figure.