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A woman and her daughter report being followed by a large animal as they walked along a dark country lane near their home
The witness and a young family companion walked home in darkness after an evening visit and heard footsteps in leaves and twigs that stopped when they stopped. They continued home, sat in a yard swing, then heard a loud guttural growl that seemed to shift to directly behind them. They slowly entered the house and locked the doors.
Teens find footprint in abandoned strip mining area near Pittsburg
In early summer 1981, the witness, then 13, was exploring strip-mine slag heaps with two companions. He found a single large bare footprint in soft mud beside a small pond between the heaps. He estimated it at 18 inches long by 7 inches wide and noted the surrounding rocky ground would cut bare feet. He interpreted the track as left by Bigfoot.
Daylight sighting by two moto-cross riders
While riding motorcycles on a dirt road near the lake with a companion, the witness crested a hill and saw a dark, large-bodied figure standing by a tree about 75 yards away. After the pair glanced at each other, the figure was gone when they looked back. The pair fled to camp and later agreed on its broad, neckless appearance with an oversized head.
Youth has sighting while fishing on Kansas River near Topeka
When about 10 years old, the witness was fishing apart from two relatives on the Kansas River. He saw a large dark hairy figure standing in the water and splashing as if bathing. After the figure looked at him, he ran back to his relatives in fear and the group left the area.
Fisherman hears heavy breathing ,turns and sees tall man-like creature
The witness was standing fishing in knee-deep river water while a companion fished downstream. Hearing heavy breathing behind, the witness turned and saw a tall, athletic, hair-covered male-like creature standing by a tree on the bank about 100-150 feet away. The two stared at each other for several minutes, and as the witness moved sideways downstream the creature moved between trees keeping watch, until the witness reached the companion; when they returned the creature was gone and no prints were found in dry sandy soil.
Chief of police in Chetopa finds two and a half miles of tracks that measured 17 inches in length, 5 5/8 in width. Thousands of curious people came out to look at the tracks. The incident was reported on the local TV news
The police chief in Chetopa reported discovering a two-and-a-half-mile trail of large footprints and recorded their dimensions. The discovery attracted thousands of onlookers and was covered on local television news. The chief later suggested the trail was a hoax made with wooden feet, an explanation the compiler doubts.
Couple reported being stalked while walking along a dark country road.
Two companions were walking in a rural area at night and noticed something following them for an extended distance while hearing movement in nearby brush. Only the companion reportedly saw the figure, described as a very tall biped that emerged from the tree line at close range. He did not mention it at the time and told the other walker about it years later.
newspaper article about a sighting by a jogger. Later, a sherif deputy found a track at the scene of the incident.
Late on Thanksgiving night in 1977, the witness was returning home from jogging when he heard a noise in nearby bushes and ran uphill toward his house. He then turned and watched a large figure running along the road before it went over a barbed-wire fence with little effort and disappeared into a field. A deputy later reported finding an unusually large, deep foot-shaped track in gravel.
Sasquatch sighting in Kansas (1977)
The witness was deer hunting with his brother when he saw a very large figure standing by a tree about 300 yards away through his scope. He first thought it was a person in a ghillie suit but decided it was too large to be a man. His brother later found very long footprints in dust where it stood, and they heard strange vocal sounds that day.
Military police find tracks at Ft.Leavenworth
In 1976 while stationed at a military installation, the witness was sent to search along the river for a runaway dependent. In fresh snow in heavy cover the party found very large footprints, which the witness and another MP followed a short distance. They stopped after encountering a fresh-garbage-like stench and did not report the prints officially for fear of career repercussions.
Early morning sighting by a hunter
The witness went alone to hunt rabbits along a flood-control dike in the early morning, then hid to wait for doves. He heard splashing to the south and watched a distant creature standing in the stream, splashing water and briefly rising on two legs to look and smell before resuming splashing. He tried to approach from downwind via the north and a cliff overlook, but the creature was gone when he arrived.
Son and friend find footprints. Later something stalks them along riverbank, incident retold by his father
Two witnesses were paddling a rowboat along a brushy creek at night to check limb lines. They heard something moving with them in the dense brush along the bank. A large rock was thrown downward and landed in the water in front of their boat, after which they left the area.
Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal east of Lebo
The witness was driving slowly on a rural road at night to bring awards to a scout campout when a hair-covered biped stepped over a fence into the road. She stopped close to it, stepped out behind her car door, and watched it for about a minute under her headlights while noting red glowing eyes and a musky odor and feeling calm. The biped then crossed the road, stepped over the opposite fence, paused to look back, and strode toward trees out of sight.
Sasquatch sighting near Lenexa, Kansas (1970)
While throwing a football alone at night, the witness noticed a small head with pointed ears peeking from behind tall hedge bushes and threw the ball toward it after it repeatedly ducked. Later that same night while sleeping near a low bedroom window, a much larger hairy face appeared at the glass, made eye contact, shifted its eyes, wrinkled its brow and opened a wide mouth showing pointed teeth. The witness fled to a parent's room while heavy pacing was felt and heard around the house, then police were called but found nothing. The next morning the witness found large prints around windows and garden, recalled repeated early-morning howls, a growl with a branch breaking, grunting in the basement and a violently shaking backyard tree.
Tracks near Lenexa, Kansas (1970)
The witness, then a child living with a parent, repeatedly heard something going through trash cans without seeing an animal. One summer day while checking a newly planted flower bed, the witness found barefoot-like footprints in the soil and wondered if someone was looking in windows at night.
Motorist's sighting results in a collision
In 1960, a man claimed to encounter a very hairy figure on the Pottawatomie Indian Reserve northwest of Topeka, Kansas. He was reportedly so frightened that he drove across a yard and struck a clothesline. The account survives only as an excerpt from a published book.
Tracks in Kansas
While having a snowball fight on a snow day, the witness and a friend entered the friend's backyard and found large barefoot-like prints in deep snow. They followed the prints to a fence where one print was on each side, as if something had stepped over in stride, then to a bush with a hollow hiding spot.
Property disturbance in Kansas
The witness describes a severely haunted childhood home with marbles rolling uphill off a mantle, late night footsteps up basement stairs with no one there, a cat hissing at an empty corner, and prolonged nightmares, prompting the family to move.
Cryptid sighting near Norton, Kansas
The witness was driving in the morning when something struck the rear of the car. Looking in the mirrors, she saw a large long-haired quadruped with a human-like face running across the road through open fields. She chose not to stop and continued driving.
Whoop near Neosho Falls, Kansas
Relatives fishing at the same spot a few days later heard the same mimicked whoop sound from the opposite direction.