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1979 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/76ReTlJvVdiWE8HKZqgF5lAvSNYtfnuuzEZ6U-fLi2Q

Paranormal encounter near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1979)

The guest returned home after closing a nightclub show and began choking with his throat closed. While struggling to breathe he saw his grandmother standing at the foot of the bed. He made a mental promise to live differently if he survived, then was able to inhale and passed out.

Full-body sighting
Summer 1977 Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma Class B #2789

Camper says a sasquatch entered a cabin of sleeping girls.

During a church retreat campground stay, the witness lay awake in a top bunk on a stormy night after lights-out. She heard the screen door open and shut, smelled a foul odor, heard heavy shuffling steps and breathing with a soft growl behind her bunk, and felt something large and furry trace her face. She next remembers waking on the floor, and the next morning a bunkmate said she had seen a big black hairy creature standing behind the witness.

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1976–1980 Dustin, Hughes County, Oklahoma Class A #5817

Woman recalls childhood encounters

Two children walking down a road on summer vacation saw a tall white-haired biped walking in a pasture. The creature paused when it noticed them, then turned toward them, prompting them to run a short way before looking again. They watched it step over a tall barbed-wire fence and continue east with long strides and swinging arms. A few days later they recovered long white hair from the top wire of a fence.

Full-body sightingHair
1975–1979 Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/cOE-vqwJp1M-UOmOPMYIsUlwKLXDM-bUFC5tCGLTaRM

Sasquatch sighting in Oklahoma (1975)

The guest's grandparents noticed meat and vegetables disappearing from an outdoor wash house over several days. One night the family smelled a strong musky odor in the living room, and the grandmother saw a large hairy figure squatted outside a picture window. The guest's father chased it as it hopped yard fences, snapped a railroad-tie post, and disappeared over a hill. For about a week afterward the grandmother heard something tampering with the wash-house door at night.

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1975 Antlers, Oklahoma #2f7eaa58-0d7a-4bf5-9858-57aac63df1d2

Sasquatch sighting near Antlers, Oklahoma (1975)

Later the same night the witness was lying awake in the shared bedroom when the same face appeared at the window and stared at him. His brother leaned out to look, saw it, screamed and ran out. Their father grabbed a gun and went outside but found nothing.

Partial sightingDoor or window contact
1975 Antlers, Oklahoma #2f7eaa58-0d7a-4bf5-9858-57aac63df1d2

Sasquatch sighting near Antlers, Oklahoma (1975)

The witness, then a young boy, followed his pet dog into woods behind the rental house. The dog yelped and fled past him. The witness then saw a huge hairy human-like figure standing in a clearing staring at him before stepping behind a cedar tree, after which he ran home.

Full-body sighting
4 November 1974 Seminole, Seminole County, Oklahoma Class A #6644

Deer hunters have daylight sighting near Seminole.

In fall 1974 the witness and a relative stopped while driving back roads looking for deer and watched through a rifle scope from about a quarter-mile away. They described a large black creature pulling leaves from a branch over the road while two much smaller creatures played in puddles nearby. After watching several minutes they left over safety concerns, returning a week later to find the branch was over 11 feet high.

Full-body sighting
28 September 1973 Burns Flat, Washita County, Oklahoma Class A #9765

Motorist and children have daylight sighting near Burns Flat

A woman driving home with her two children in the afternoon saw a large black manlike creature rise from a squat beside a two-lane highway and run across the road a short distance ahead. The creature crossed in three steps, glanced toward the car, then left the road into a ditch and brush. The driver braked but did not stop, feeling frightened for the children.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
1973–1974 Oklahoma #dc02b07d-c43f-4c2c-b3a7-ae2ea017d36b

Scream in Oklahoma (1973)

The witness's father as a teenager went to a river with his older brother, younger sister, and the brother's girlfriend near dark. Something across the river crashed through brush like a heavy animal, then yelled, screamed, broke branches and pushed things over. The group fled in a vehicle, realized they left the youngest sister, drove back and found her running up the road screaming.

ScreamVocalizationTree breakMovement only
July 1972 Kiowa, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Class A #10595

Family has early morning encounter at small bridge

The witness and four family members were driving home on a rural highway in the early morning when their pickup passed a tall hair-covered figure standing beside the vehicle on a narrow bridge. The witness described looking directly at its human-like, wrinkled face and noting its stiff posture against the railing. The group briefly considered turning back but continued on, later concluding the figure was neither a man nor a bear.

Full-body sighting
October 1971 Five Miles Southeast Of Talihina, Okla. In Leflore County, Le Flore County, Oklahoma Class B #2909

Deer kill stash discovered after bigfoot sighting

On a clear cold night in fall 1971, a group of students gathered at a party spot on Green Hill Road claimed a large hairy creature grabbed one member who had stepped into the woods. Another member reported seeing the animal standing about 20 feet away in a spotlight, prompting the group to flee into town. Later that night a larger group with law officers returned to search the woods but reported seeing nothing, and officers warned them to leave.

Partial sighting
1970–1979 Thackerville, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/12/25/sc-ep393-the-christmas-show

Tracks near Thackerville, Oklahoma (1970)

A man and woman were found dead at Brown Springs, the man with his neck broken and thrown from a car hood and the woman showing signs of assault and abdominal tearing. Large fresh tracks were reported near the gravel road scene. The case was described as unsolved with evidence kept quiet.

TracksProperty disturbanceAnimal behaviour
1969–1970 Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/FKgzPJcCl-LD7jEndUrZ-Fc4pEQLLYAlJdZ35UatlYQ

UFO sighting in Oklahoma (1969)

As a teenager sleeping alone in his brother's bed, the witness woke suddenly in the early morning and looked out the open window. He saw a silent, motionless, internally lit white sphere hovering at an angle where it could see into the room. After watching for several minutes, he woke his younger brother, and when two faces appeared at the screen the object slowly receded upward until it looked like a twinkling star and was lost. He resolved never to forget the sighting and did not speak of it publicly for decades.

Full-body sighting
1967–1969 El Reno, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/04/22/sc-ep-97-the-chicken-man

Property disturbance near El Reno, Oklahoma (1967)

A farmer found his chicken coop door ripped off with a bloody handprint on it and hairs, footprints and blood left behind. Several chickens were killed without being eaten, and the door was taken to a zoo for examination.

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August 1966 Edge Of Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma Class A #34555

Woman recalls her nighttime face to face encounter at her window outside Tulsa

Late at night three girls were lying on a bed by an open screened window talking quietly. After hearing footsteps and bushes rustling, a tall hair-covered creature placed its face at the window inches from the witness and stared for several seconds. The witness screamed and the group fled to another room, after which police searched but found nothing. The witness later said the creature matched descriptions of bigfoot she heard.

Partial sightingFootstepsOdor
1965–1979 Perry, Oklahoma #abc7e28a-f432-4411-8005-75c8b0b2532c

UFO sighting near Perry, Oklahoma (1965)

The witness's grandmother said she and a young relative living with the family repeatedly saw unidentified lights while sitting outside the house in the evenings during the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The sightings occurred at the family farm property.

Partial sighting
1965 Creek County, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/16/sc-ep80-southern-sasquatch-encounters

Sasquatch sighting near Creek County (1965)

The guest and several boys camped in a thicket below their house and hung food in a bag to keep animals away. At night the dogs panicked and fled, a foul smell arrived, and the group saw a large man-like shape standing in brush about 20 feet away by campfire light. They fled to the house, and the next day found the hung food bag torn from its rope and gone.

SilhouetteOdorProperty disturbance
1960–1969 Kiefer, Creek County, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/16/sc-ep80-southern-sasquatch-encounters

Sasquatch sighting near Kiefer, Oklahoma (1960)

One night the guest joined his mother in the backyard where the family watchdog was whimpering at her feet while staring at cedar trees. He saw the same large outline standing behind a cedar tree. He estimated it at twelve to thirteen feet tall and believed it was the same animal seen before.

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1960–1969 Kiefer, Creek County, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/16/sc-ep80-southern-sasquatch-encounters

Sasquatch sighting near Kiefer, Oklahoma (1960)

The guest and a friend walked up a dirt road near the earlier thicket and noticed a large hair-covered creature crouched at a cattle pond drinking with its face directly in the water rather than using hands. Both were frightened and ran to the guest's house. The guest later noted bears do not occur in that part of Oklahoma.

Full-body sighting
Spring 1942 Gould, Harmon County, Oklahoma Class B #1303

Sisters observe tall hairy creature running away from them

Two witnesses were going through a shelter belt to collect cows from a pasture when they heard rustling in the trees. Thinking it was a cow, they turned and saw a very tall hairy biped running away from them. The witnesses then ran in the opposite direction.

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