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August 1953 White Hills Region, Shelton, Fairfield County, Connecticut Class A #16408

Children observe bipedal animal walking along railroad tracks near the Housatonic River

In 1953 three young children were picking blackberries near a railroad track when a tall hair-covered biped came down a steep hillside and walked north along the tracks, looking at them briefly. The witness recalled long arms, a long stride, a primate-like face, and a thin build with short dark hair. The children ran back to the cottage to tell parents, who dismissed the account.

Full-body sighting
1895 Winstead, Connecticut #c5cd99c4-55f7-4913-bfd7-7a9321863b43

Sasquatch sighting near Winstead, Connecticut (1895)

A town selectman chasing a lost hog stopped in a clearing to pick blackberries. He saw a naked, hair-covered figure weighing about 180 pounds. The figure noticed him, made an unfamiliar sound, bounded over bushes, and disappeared.

Full-body sightingVocalization
BFRO YEAR: 20010 Canaan Ct., Litchfield County, Connecticut Class B #61150

Security guard on patrol in Canaan area (Summer 2010) describes loud screams and 18-inch tracks

The witness, working as a night security guard at a facility, stepped onto a rear deck for a patrol around 3 a.m. and heard an extremely loud female-sounding scream from the wooded hillside about 100 feet away. After sunrise he inspected the nearby trail and found large footprints that he measured. He later found a similar scream online and said it matched what he heard.

ScreamTracks
Date unknown Connecticut #c6ab5ec3-e69e-4af6-8817-f682007be113

Sasquatch sighting in Connecticut

The witness's father as a youth was snapping turtle fishing from a small boat with his grandfather at a secluded pond. They saw something move easily through the woods, pause to peer from behind a tree at them, then disappear. The grandfather dismissed it as a bear but the father remained terrified.

Partial sighting
July of this year Warren, Connecticut #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/KcQSPG0ibmmvcEvpa9fzroW8YMWKsNniDpLthrMOoy4

Vocalization near Warren, Connecticut

The witness was solo hammock camping when he heard a duck or goose mauled with splashing, then movement around him in the dark. A loud grunt from up high that felt like it went through him frightened him. He packed up and left the woods that night.

VocalizationUnidentified soundFootsteps
my 18th birthday, December 26 Cornwall, Connecticut #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/KcQSPG0ibmmvcEvpa9fzroW8YMWKsNniDpLthrMOoy4

Footsteps near Cornwall, Connecticut

The witness and a friend hiked into Dudleytown to look for ruins and heard something paralleling them that stopped and started with them. After the friend headed back, the witness saw a six-foot bipedal figure with long arms take a quick lateral step behind a tree and disappear. They both then hurried out of the woods.

FootstepsPartial sightingSilhouette
about two or three years ago Connecticut #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/kTDgzxKGmJusUbFfUiu5FEkGl-kZ7GWDLMMvIOBm3kQ

Sasquatch sighting in Connecticut

At night the witness shone a flashlight from his porch and saw a very tall wide reddish figure watching him from a tree. Its eyes glowed red-orange-yellow. He offered apples and ate one to coax it closer, but it only swayed and stepped behind the tree from the light, then left silently without taking the apple.

Full-body sightingEyeshine
when I was probably about 11, 12 years old Connecticut #21f69b2e-7990-44db-9e8e-0a33110c35dd

UFO sighting in Connecticut

At age 11 or 12 while riding in the back seat home from a county fair the witness looked out over the mountains and saw a distant wide string of red yellow green white lights moving back and forth for about 15 seconds. He told his parents who said they saw nothing, and then it disappeared.

Partial sighting
right after end of 89 Connecticut #21f69b2e-7990-44db-9e8e-0a33110c35dd

Rock throwing in Connecticut

Residents of small summer huts backed against a steep hill complained for a couple weeks that rocks were thrown down onto roofs and cars. Police searched the hilltop, staked it out overnight and had an officer nearly hit, but never found anyone throwing. The source was left unknown.

Rock throwingProperty disturbance
when we used to play when we were small Connecticut #21f69b2e-7990-44db-9e8e-0a33110c35dd

Animal behaviour in Connecticut

The witness's wife recalled that when she and her sister were small and played in the state forest they repeatedly had a creepy feeling of someone watching them they could not see. They never saw or heard anything specific.

Animal behaviour