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1984–1986 West Virginia #d23b8fd9-2d77-4838-941e-9152f2f04fae

Sasquatch sighting in West Virginia (1984)

While visiting relatives, the witness and a young relative looked out a back door after an older relative remarked about monkeys playing behind the house. Three hair-covered bipedal beings walked through a dry creek bed across a pasture without looking up. The group included a taller individual, a shorter muscular female carrying an infant clinging to her neck, and they entered the treeline.

Full-body sighting
Summer 1980 Cabell County, West Virginia Class B #1200

Witness heard what sounded like "people talking backwards."

The witness and a companion were night fishing at a rural lake when they heard loud, unintelligible voice-like sounds from the woods uphill behind them. Shortly after, a very loud and frightening scream came from just up the hill, terrifying both of them. They left the area immediately and the witness reports not returning.

VocalizationScream
10 August 1979 Princeton WV, Mercer County, West Virginia Class A #24061

Family gathering interrupted by 8-foot tall visitor at the kitchen window

The witness and extended family had arrived late for a summer visit at the grandparents' mountain home and were talking inside. An older relative noticed something at the high kitchen window, prompting several men to go outside with firearms. The grandfather fired a shotgun toward the rear of the house while the witness, locked out front, saw the outline of a shoulder and head with reflective eyes near the roofline. The group regrouped inside, and dogs normally around the house were absent that night but returned frightened in the morning.

Partial sightingSilhouetteEyeshine
23 November 1978 St George, Tucker County, West Virginia Class A #24945

Man recalls his daylight sighting while hunting in the Monongahela National Forest

The witness was deer hunting in a wooded area in the late afternoon when a tall, hair-covered biped walked across about 30 yards away from right to left. The creature continued down to the witness's elevation, around a hill and down a logging road through a meadow until out of sight over 2-3 minutes. The witness later searched the meadow without relocating it and later found leaf impressions showing a long stride.

Full-body sightingTracks
July 1975 Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia Class B #4237

Three youths have a menacing encounter near Beckley

Three boys were hiking back up a hollow after a day of fishing when they heard rustling on a logging road above them. Large boulders then came down the hillside toward them, prompting them to flee uphill. As they ran, the writer glanced back and saw a large black shape disappearing over the hillside.

Partial sightingRock throwingUnidentified sound
Spring 1974 Stonewood, Harrison County, West Virginia Class A #26963

Blacksmith recalls seeing a creature come down a mountainside and shares a sketch he drew

Two teenagers were collecting nightcrawlers behind a rural house just after dark when they heard something moving down through dense briars on a nearby logging road. The witness shone a flashlight and watched a very tall, muscular, hair-covered animal move past about 60 feet away for several seconds. The pair were frightened, and the next day they used a sapling to estimate its height at nine feet.

Full-body sighting
1970–1979 Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia Related account #2786

Unidentified sound near Milton, West Virginia (1970)

A relative and companion reportedly saw a gray hairy bipedal creature drinking at the creek and running up the hollow in the late 1970s.

Unidentified soundFull-body sighting
1970–1979 Knipetown, Berkeley County, West Virginia Class A #13949

Late-night road-crossing sighting by firefighter near the Potomac River

Late at night the witness was driving on a rural road with a farm on one side and an apple orchard on the other when a large hair-covered figure crossed the road ahead of the vehicle. The figure paused in the middle of the road to look toward the headlights, allowing a clear view, then continued across. The witness kept driving, was shaken by the sighting, and avoided that road afterward.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingEyeshine
1970 Grantsville, Calhoun County, West Virginia #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/FehuLvubnK9KtwJBrbKtRIhR4e32CZzQjhzuvX1Qopk

Sasquatch sighting near Grantsville, West Virginia (1970)

The guest and his younger brother were on summer vacation at their grandfather's hillside house in West Virginia. After the younger brother fled the back bedroom saying a hairy face had pushed through the unscreened window while sniffing the air, both boys ran outside and, in headlights reflected off the siding, watched a dark bipedal figure go down the rear embankment and crash through a dense briar thicket. The next morning their uncle turned pale when told and warned them to stay out of the back.

Partial sightingVocalizationFootstepsMovement only
11 November 1969 Marlinton, Pocahontas County, West Virginia Class A #29124

Recollection of a daylight sighting while deer hunting near Greenbrier River

In November 1969, the witness and his father were hunting in the morning when the father spotted what he first thought was a bear across a hay field. Both then observed a large brown-haired biped standing at the far fence line for an extended period through a rifle scope and field glasses. The father said he did not know what it was and chose not to shoot, and they returned to camp where he armed himself and kept the witness inside.

Full-body sighting
August 1969 WAR, McDowell County, West Virginia Class A #24421

Woman remembers daylight sighting while walking in the Slate Creek area

In August 1969 the witness was walking on a hillside path above her sister, who was walking on a dirt road toward the store. When her sister passed a natural spring, a tall hairy creature stood up from the brush, and the witness screamed for her sister to run. Her sister saw the creature and ran, while the creature quickly stooped back down and moved into brush along the creek.

Full-body sighting
June 1961 Huntington WVa, Wayne County, West Virginia Class A #38547

Medical doctor recalls his daylight sighting as a teenager near Huntington

The witness and a companion were walking in woods behind a relative's farm when they came to a hilltop clearing. They watched an unfamiliar animal bent over using its upper limbs for several minutes. The animal then stood bipedally, looked at them, and left by jumping over a barbed-wire fence at the edge of a thicket, after which the pair ran back to the farmhouse.

Full-body sighting
BFRO YEAR: 1979 -'84 Wayne County, West Virginia Class A #1207

One of several sighting and vocalization reports. When witness called out " it stood up at the edge of the hill and huffed and puffed."

Five people drove to a rural spot at night to hang out. After dogs in a hollow below barked then fell suddenly silent, the group heard movement in brush and saw a tall fur-covered figure stand at the hill edge making huffing sounds. When the driver turned on the car headlights the figure covered its face and moved behind trees as the group fled in the car.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteVocalizationMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
two nights (2/14/09) before Wayne, Wayne County, West Virginia Related account #25497

Sasquatch sighting near Wayne, West Virginia

A relative thought he saw a figure standing at the end of the main witness's porch two nights earlier, but a light went out and nothing could then be seen.

Partial sighting
Date unknown Davis, Tucker County, West Virginia Related account #25301

Structure or nest near Davis, West Virginia

The witness recalled seeing flat rocks stacked two to six high away from trails or paths in the same area.

Structure or nest
Date unknown Glady, Randolph County, West Virginia Related account #55583

Sasquatch sighting near Glady, West Virginia

The witness reportedly photographed a tall individual walking away near the same location and estimated its height at eight feet or more.

Full-body sighting
Date unknown Glady, Randolph County, West Virginia Related account #55583

Whoop near Glady, West Virginia

The witness has reportedly heard whoops, howls, whistles and wood knocks at the track location.

WhoopHowlWhistleWood knock
A few days later Middlebourne, Tyler County, West Virginia Related account #11828

Tracks near Middlebourne, West Virginia

A few days later the witness returned to the roadside with a family member and noticed a fairly large oddly shaped footprint.

Tracks
One week prior to this Cairo, Ritchie County, West Virginia Related account #3655

Scream near Cairo, West Virginia

A relative visiting the church on a Saturday evening after dark heard a scream and growl near the door and fled to a vehicle.

ScreamGrowl
previously Kopperston, Wyoming County, West Virginia Related account #74981

Unidentified sound near Kopperston, West Virginia

On a previous visit to the same area the witness heard unusual sounds he could not identify.

Unidentified sound