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Winter 1973 Amite County, Mississippi Class A #1338

Several incidents in the East Fork Community

The witness and a friend were in the woods near a creek bottom when the friend sensed being watched. The witness saw a figure about 25 yards away that was squatting, then stood seven to eight feet tall, covered in very dark brown hair except the face, and walked upright. It followed them to the edge of the wood line with a long stride and swinging arms while making whistling noises.

Full-body sightingWhistle
1970–1972 Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/12/25/sc-ep393-the-christmas-show

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1970)

Three children were catching lightning bugs in a pasture at dusk while their grandfather called them from the porch. The grandfather saw an upright figure on a fence line drop to all fours and lope toward the children. He ran shouting, the children froze or fled, and the creature stopped, stood erect, then walked away into cedar trees while watching them.

Full-body sightingMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
1969–1970 Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/02/24/sc-ep18-sasquatch-stories-with-jim-grant-aka-bear

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1969)

The witness and his siblings were catching fireflies in a pasture when their grandfather saw something loping toward them on all fours and ran shouting to distract it. The children then saw a hairy, mangy-looking creature approach within about ten yards. It stopped when the grandfather arrived, stood erect while watching them, then walked into the [name withheld].

Full-body sighting
1968 Lowndes County, Mississippi Class A #1344

while playing tag with several other children witness saw a white hairy creature.

About 30 years ago in Columbus, the witness was playing tag with a group of children in a front yard at dusk when the other children fled frightened toward nearby adults. The witness then saw a white, hairy, slightly hunched figure standing and peeking around the corner of a duplex, with the top of its head level with the top of a window estimated at over seven feet. The figure moved slightly side to side before the witness backed away, and it was gone when checked shortly after, with no trace found the next morning.

Partial sighting
1966 Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/02/24/sc-ep18-sasquatch-stories-with-jim-grant-aka-bear

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1966)

The witness, then six, woke at night in a shared bedroom and heard cooing and clicking outside. He saw a large monkey-like creature leaning over a fence about 15 to 20 yards from the window, swaying its head. He woke his younger brother, both ran to their mother, who told them to go back to sleep without checking.

Full-body sightingVocalization
Summer 1950 Attala County, Mississippi Class A #1339

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.

Partial sightingPossible misidentification
BFRO YEAR: 1978-79 KNOXVILLE, Franklin County, Mississippi Class A #12122

Morning sighting by hunter in Homochitto National Forest near Knoxville

The witness was deer hunting in the morning and waiting against a tree when a nearby deer spooked. He then heard heavy breathing and saw a tall hair-covered upright creature standing a few feet behind him. He fled leaving his gun, then returned with two companions to find large three-toed tracks leading to a creek.

Full-body sightingVocalizationTracks
BFRO YEAR: 2021-22 Lauderdale, Lauderdale County, Mississippi Class B #72081

Possible ongoing sasquatch incidents around rural property 17mi NE of Meridian

The witness reports hearing wolf-like but different howls and daytime knocks over the past couple weeks after a two-year quiet period, with sounds heard on both sides of the road. The activity was first noticed near a shooting house when animals went quiet, and included a very active episode around 12:30 a.m. The witness and two neighbors have heard two different sounds, and dogs avoid the area.

HowlWood knock
This past July or August Burnsville, Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/01/26/sc-ep75-looking-back-over-the-last-75-shows

Sasquatch sighting near Burnsville, Mississippi

The driver broke down on a rainy highway and was working in the back of a tall cargo van. A snorting sound came from outside, and a large hairy face appeared inches away in the open door. The creature vibrated the van with a loud growl, reacted to a pistol, then left. Lightning revealed two more figures nearby, and the driver fired and fled to town.

Partial sightingVocalizationOdorVehicle contact
when I was seven years old Mississippi #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/emxwtZ2Fw-5pmgp2LbbBKp6yQuE0M6VuF9UCVxWFsX0

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

A seven-year-old on grandparents porch watched a huge baboon-faced biped at a neighbor trailer window interact with a small woman, who then set out caged animals. A second breasted creature crawled around the trailer, stood, took the cages, and both left.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviourProperty disturbance
Date unknown Mississippi #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/oP-q5-zQUMNO5Ocs25SakZ02hZ1jpOu3JQKlaUH-aIU

Vocalization in Mississippi

Over a period on the farm, the guest and his young nephew repeatedly heard loud prolonged vocalizations and crying-like sounds while outside. The mother dismissed them as a horse, donkey, or bobcat. The guest later doubted those explanations because of loudness and duration.

VocalizationUnidentified sound
Date unknown Mississippi #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/oP-q5-zQUMNO5Ocs25SakZ02hZ1jpOu3JQKlaUH-aIU

UFO sighting in Mississippi

On the night the family moved away, they burned trash and drove to the road. A sister pointed to a light apart from the fire. The guest described it as a comical-looking UFO, not a saucer, before they drove on.

Partial sighting
Date unknown Mississippi #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/oP-q5-zQUMNO5Ocs25SakZ02hZ1jpOu3JQKlaUH-aIU

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

A visiting young relative stayed overnight at the farmhouse. He later said a monkey-like figure stared at him through the bedroom window all night. He was too frightened to call out and asked to be taken back home the next morning.

Partial sighting
Date unknown Mississippi #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/oP-q5-zQUMNO5Ocs25SakZ02hZ1jpOu3JQKlaUH-aIU

Partial sighting in Mississippi

Late at night the family heard the chickens in an uproar. The uncle went outside, thought he saw a panther-like animal, retrieved a gun and fired. Other male relatives came out and also fired, then believed they had scared it off.

Partial sighting
Date unknown Mississippi #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/oP-q5-zQUMNO5Ocs25SakZ02hZ1jpOu3JQKlaUH-aIU

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

The neighbor woman was hanging laundry beside her trailer with her toddler nearby. A creature seized the child and started down the driveway with it. She chased it with a garden hoe, struck it, and it dropped the child and ran toward the woods by the witness family property.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/02/28/sc-ep19-bigfoot-stories-with-tim-coonbo-baker

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

The witness and a research partner drove into a gravel road below the picnic area armed with shotguns. After a loud scream at the truck, they turned around in a field and were charged by three large creatures. They faced off at close range with guns shouldered while the creatures screamed loudly, then the largest led the others back into the brush and the men fled.

Full-body sightingScream
after I left the government in 1993 Boonville, Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/02/28/sc-ep19-bigfoot-stories-with-tim-coonbo-baker

Sasquatch sighting near Boonville, Mississippi

While living in a rural rental house, the witness realized Sasquatch-like creatures were coming around trying to get his puppies. Driving home at night, his headlights caught an alpha male and another in the road in front of the house. Later tracks were found in front of the bay window with very long strides, and leap measurements showed about sixty feet covered in three jumps.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingTracks
Date unknown Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/04/26/sc-ep98-the-big-thicket-monster

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

A truck driver at his rural home saw a huge dark figure crouched by his shed and shouted at it. It rose to standing without using its arms, towered over the shed, then ran and jumped a wide ditch into the woods. Prior residents had called the house haunted because of banging and door noises.

Full-body sightingDoor or window contactProperty disturbance
Date unknown Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/04/26/sc-ep98-the-big-thicket-monster

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

A woman hunting deer watched a doe while a Bigfoot crouched below her stand and moved to the field edge. It seized the deer in a bear hug and killed it, carried it under its arm behind her stand, threw it down and began eating. She remained in the stand for hours until companions helped her down.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviourUnidentified sound
Date unknown Mississippi #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/04/26/sc-ep98-the-big-thicket-monster

Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi

A deer hunter in a climbing stand watched brush moving about 200 yards away and saw a large dark form squatting and disturbing a tree. When his stand made noise it looked at him, stood on two legs and ran. He found a huge slide track, then heard a wood knock and a whoop from different directions and left, later refusing to return.

Full-body sightingWood knockWhoopTracks