Bigfoot reports from the 1960s
241 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 3.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Bigfoot · Bluff Creek, California · 1967
Witnesses report that Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin spotted a bigfoot drinking from a creek in Bluff Creek, California, which then retreated into the woods while Patterson filmed it.
Bigfoot · Parker, Washington · 1965
Witness reports that four children saw an eight-foot-tall hairy creature step from a clearing near the Yakima River and disappear behind a bush.
Bigfoot · Myers Flat, California · 1965
Five teenagers camping near Myers Flat reported a hairy creature circling their cabin, poking at the boards, and reaching the door before one witness fired a rifle.
Bigfoot · Ennis, Texas · 1964
Witness reports that his father and a friend encountered a large, hairy, man-like creature at Chambers Creek which roared at them before they fled.
Bigfoot · Packwood, Washington · 1969
Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal, hairy creature standing on two legs on the side of the road near White Pass in 1969.
Bigfoot · Daingerfield, Texas · 1960
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy, upright creature through a bedroom window in the 1960s, which was then shot at by her grandfather.
Bigfoot · Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas · 1964
Witness reports seeing a large, dark, hairy creature at the edge of a cemetery woods while visiting a grave with a friend and his mother.
Bigfoot · Tyler, Texas · 1963
Witness reports seeing a huge, red-furred animal flaying its arms and howling at dogs while coon hunting in 1963.
Bigfoot · Pemiscot County, Missouri · 1960
Witness reports that their children saw a large creature emerging from an abandoned barn and later found large footprints with toe marks.
Bigfoot · Alexander City, Alabama · 1967
Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal creature with black hair and whitish skin running away on an old pulpwood road.
Bigfoot · Ligonier, Pennsylvania · 1967
Witness reports seeing a giant, gorilla-like creature with black-brown fur and reflective eyes standing at the doorway of their cabin late at night.
Bigfoot · War, West Virginia · 1969
Witness reports seeing a tall, broad-shouldered, hairy creature near Slate Creek in 1969 and believes it was Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Citrus County, Florida · 1961
Witness reports seeing a 5-6 foot tall, hairy creature with long arms that stood up from a stump and ran away during a night walk in March 1961.
Bigfoot · Albion, California · 1966
Witness reports seeing two large hairy animals chasing sheep near Albion in 1966.
Bigfoot · Columbia, South Carolina · 1964
A witness on a training mission at Fort Jackson reports hearing and seeing an unknown creature that vocalized in a growling tone before fleeing rapidly.
Bigfoot · Gilchrist Island, Florida · 1962
Witness reports something throwing sticks at them from the swamp area during a Boy Scout campout in Fall 1962.
Bigfoot · Guler Mount Adams County Park, Washington · 1965
Witness reports encountering a pregnant female Bigfoot while picking huckleberries in the mid-1960s and observing her imitate his gesture.
Bigfoot · Lowndes County, Mississippi · 1968
Witness reports seeing a white hairy creature standing at the corner of their duplex apartment house while playing tag with neighborhood children.
Bigfoot · Little River County, Arkansas · 1969
Witness reports that her mother and oldest brother saw a creature while camping in 1969.
Bigfoot · Bend, Oregon · 1963
Witness reports finding large bipedal tracks in the mud of a lake cove after hearing splashing and seeing an animal retreat.
Bigfoot · North Fort Myers, Florida · 1963
Witness reports seeing a huge shadow of a bipedal creature taller than a man and hearing its footsteps and moan outside their bedroom window in 1963.
Bigfoot · Portland, Oregon · 1969
Witness reports seeing a group of four juvenile sasquatches in a fort and an adult male sasquatch on the ground that screamed at her and growled before retreating.
Bigfoot · Curry County, Oregon · 1969
Witness reports that a group of campers heard terrifying screams and saw a huge dark form walking on two feet near their campsite in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness.
Bigfoot · Fayette County, Iowa · 1965
Witness reports hearing a horrific, high-pitched scream in a grove of trees.
Bigfoot · Rossland, British Columbia · 1969
Witness reports seeing a tall, grey, hairy humanoid drinking from a creek and climbing a steep bank on a mountain road near Rossland.
Bigfoot · Snow Hill, North Carolina · 1968
Witness reports hearing a terrifying screaming noise and heavy thudding footsteps near their home in the early morning, later recognizing it as similar to Bigfoot recordings.
Bigfoot · Midland, Michigan · 1967
Witness reports seeing a hairy creature scaling a ditch and fence before running across an open field on two legs.
Bigfoot · Hubert, North Carolina · 1965
Witness reports seeing a large, brown, furry creature estimated at 8 to 10 feet tall moving rapidly through a dense swampy area on a military base.
Bigfoot · Fresno County, California · 1968
Witness reports seeing a small, bipedal creature resembling a bear cub that stood up and walked away with human-like arm swings near Bullfrog Lake.
Bigfoot · City of Syracuse, New York · 1960
Witness reports hearing a fearsome guttural growl from the woods near a golf course in Syracuse after witnessing a mysterious boulder fall from the sky.
Bigfoot · Pemiscot County, Missouri · 1961
Witness reports seeing a very tall, hairy creature with huge hands and long fingers while their dog was barking fearfully near an abandoned barn.
Bigfoot · Hood River County, Oregon · 1968
Witness reports seeing eyes and a large black animal at a logging site in Oregon in 1968.
Bigfoot · Town of Enterprise, Wisconsin · 1965
Witness reports seeing a BigFoot/Sasquatch walking across County Q near Pelican Lake in August 1965.
Bigfoot · Southeast Fairbanks (CA), Alaska · 1964
Witness reports seeing a tall, shaggy, dark brown creature near Fairbanks that grunted and walked into the woods while they were rabbit hunting.
Bigfoot · Hardwood, Michigan · 1963
Witness reports seeing an eight-foot tall, short-haired humanoid standing under a tree near their family cabin in the late 1960s.
Bigfoot · Troy, Idaho · 1963
Witness reports seeing a small, muscular, chimpanzee-faced creature with clean short fur jump onto a tree and stare at him before running away.
Bigfoot · Gilchrist Island, Florida · 1963
Witness reports squirrels screaming in fear followed by footsteps and a loud terrifying scream or howl during a campout in April 1963.
Bigfoot · Richland, Washington · 1962
Witness reports finding massive footprints in the snow while hunting east of Richland five years prior to the main sighting.
Bigfoot · Platte County, Missouri · 1966
Witness reports finding large footprints and observing a creature eating bark off willows while hunting near Leavenworth in 1966.
Bigfoot · Oregon, Illinois · 1960
Witness reports hearing a terrible screaming and smelling a horrible smell from the woods near Castle Rock State Park in spring 1960.
Bigfoot · Owyhee County, Idaho · 1963
Witness reports seeing a large upright creature running away and leaping over sagebrush while spotlight hunting in spring 1963.
Bigfoot · Wayne County, West Virginia · 1961
Witness reports seeing a tall, skinny, blackish-haired bipedal animal in a clearing near Huntington, WV, which stood on its hind legs before jumping a fence.
Bigfoot · Myers Flat, California · 1963
Witness reports seeing a creature that stood up from berry bushes and walked away into the brush while he was hunting with two friends.
Bigfoot · LaGrange, Georgia · 1960
Witness reports seeing a 7-foot tall ape-looking creature with yellow eyes on his grandfather's farm in Georgia.
Bigfoot · Fort Hope National Historic Site of Canada, British Columbia · 1969
Witness reports seeing a seven to eight foot tall, greyish, apelike creature walk across the road in front of his car at night.
Bigfoot · North Brunswick Township, New Jersey · 1969
Witness reports seeing a hunched, hairy creature with red eyes near Lawrence Brook that stood up and waddled into the woods.
Bigfoot · Zenia, California · 1964
Witnesses report hearing a loud wail from rock bluffs and finding a cleared area with trampled ground the next morning.
Bigfoot · Hendersonville, Tennessee · 1965
Witness reports seeing a man-like creature about eight feet tall covered in medium dark brown hair digging in a trash can and walking away on two legs.
Bigfoot · Markdale, Ontario · 1964
Witness reports seeing a tall, fur-covered creature standing on an embankment and then walking down to the roadside while riding in a car at night.
Bigfoot · Pataskala, Ohio · 1968
Witness reports seeing a very tall black hairy thing walking down the road and across a bridge in the summer of 1968.
Bigfoot · Brooksville, Florida · 1969
Witness reports seeing a large silver-colored creature sitting on a wood pile watching them.
Bigfoot · Callahan, California · 1966
Witness reports seeing a 5'6" tall, reddish-brown hairy humanoid with yellow eyes on a ridge near East Boulder Lake, which later fled and was followed by sightings of other figures and strange lights.
Bigfoot · McCall, Idaho · 1969
Witnesses on a double date observed a six-foot-tall bigfoot with dense black fur standing upright near their car before it ran into the woods.
Bigfoot · Gunnison County, Colorado · 1964
Witness reports hearing a large unseen creature following him and his wife while bow hunting in the mountains of Colorado.
Bigfoot · Caseville, Michigan · 1965
Witness reports seeing a hunched, ape-like creature with orange hair and claws in the sand dunes at night.
Bigfoot · Chrisney, Indiana · 1968
Witness reports seeing a dark, abnormally long-armed humanoid creature near a brooder shed at night.
Bigfoot · Tehama County, California · 1968
Witness reports seeing a tall, dark brown, bipedal creature with flat-topped head crossing a creek near Payne's Creek in the late 1960s.
Bigfoot · Gilchrist Island, Florida · 1963
Witness reports observing barefoot prints 12-14 inches long and 6-7 inches wide during a Boy Scout campout in March 1963.
Bigfoot · Kalamazoo, Michigan · 1969
Witness reports running into a huge, tawny-skinned Sasquatch holding a pine limb at a school playground in Kalamazoo.
Bigfoot · Patterson, California · 1962
Witness reports seeing a massive, eight-foot-tall humanoid figure with long shaggy grey hair standing in a sugar beet field while riding bikes.
Bigfoot · Ucluelet, British Columbia · 1963
The narrator reports seeing a tall, hairy, humanoid creature standing motionless on the beach while wading in the water.
Bigfoot · Charlotte County, Florida · 1962
Witness reports seeing a large, fast-moving creature emitting a high-pitched scream while camping with Boy Scouts in Tampa.
Bigfoot · Hamilton County, New York · 1969
Witness reports seeing an unidentified creature looking through a second-story window and later finding a large heel print near a stream.
Bigfoot · Cortland County, New York · 1969
Witness reports being followed through a dark forest by a tall, bulky, dark object that made loud noises and walked like a large person.
Bigfoot · Neptune City, New Jersey · 1966
Witness reports seeing a redish brown 8-9ft tall big man screeching at night in Alaire State Park.
Bigfoot · Ransom, Kentucky · 1967
Witness reports finding large humanlike tracks in the snow leading down a steep hillside to their house.
Bigfoot · Spokane County, Washington · 1961
Witness reports finding large bipedal tracks in deep snow on Mount Kit Carson and fleeing from the creature that made them.
Bigfoot · Dalby Springs, Texas · 1964
Witness reports seeing a stock-still gorilla-like face peeking out from overgrown vegetation near their grandparents' farmhouse.
Bigfoot · Ojai, California · 1964
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy, ape-like creature on Pine Mountain in August 1964 that left footprints and a foul odor.
Bigfoot · Menominee County, Wisconsin · 1967
Witness reports hearing a loud, high-pitched scream and seeing trees shaken while being followed by an unseen creature on a trail in Wisconsin.
Bigfoot · Bradford, Pennsylvania · 1963
Witness reports being chased by a very tall figure with long arms while playing softball in Bradford, Pa.
Bigfoot · Oceanside, California · 1968
Witness reports that four Marines encountered a large, tall, wide creature with long arms and a pointed head during a nighttime training exercise at Camp Pendleton.
Bigfoot · Oregon, Illinois · 1965
Witness reports a creature screaming, walking behind their trailer, and hitting its sides four or five times in the fall of 1965.
Bigfoot · Talent, Oregon · 1966
Witness and a friend observed a shaggy-somewhat stooped over figure walk between their campfire and tent during a Boy Scout outing.
Bigfoot · River Grove, Illinois · 1967
Witness reports seeing a hairy, ape-like humanoid near the Des Plaines River that threw rocks at them before fleeing.
Bigfoot · Elyria, Ohio · 1967
Witness reports seeing a large human-like creature running from dogs and screaming loudly, followed by the discovery of large barefoot tracks.
Bigfoot · New Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1966
Witness reports a large hair-covered face with ape-like features and musky smell appeared at her window around midnight.
Bigfoot · Litchfield, Connecticut · 1968
Witness reports seeing a nine-foot hairy creature walking across the yard and making eye contact, followed by parents discovering large footprints.
Bigfoot · Sand Point, California · 1963
Witness reports hearing a strange, alarming scream-like noise coming from the road near Hinkley Basin while stopped at Sand Point overlook.
Bigfoot · Brinnon, Washington · 1963
Witness reports seeing the silhouette of a large animal standing at their sleeping bag in the Royal Basin.
Bigfoot · Bear Lake County, Idaho · 1968
Witness reports seeing a large, black humanoid form standing at the edge of the woods near a campground in St. Charles Canyon.
Bigfoot · Jekyll Island, Georgia · 1963
Witness reports seeing a hairy, grayish creature about 5 1/2 feet tall step onto a dirt road from the woods on Jekyll Island in 1963.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1964
Witness reports seeing a big ape looking at them while going down to a spring on the mountain along the Eel river.
Bigfoot · Eatonville, Washington · 1967
Witness reports being awoken by loud noises and seeing several large hairy men around the water tower and cabins.
Bigfoot · Little River County, Arkansas · 1969
Witness reports that the family saw a creature with white color and red glowing eyes circling their camp.
Bigfoot · Norris, Illinois · 1969
Witness reports seeing a tall, bipedal creature crouched behind a fence that stood up and ran into the woods.
Bigfoot · Thurston County, Washington · 1967
Witness reports seeing three large, upright-walking individuals that smelled of a weird odor and chased them before they escaped.
Bigfoot · Gainesville, Florida · 1963
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy creature with big dark round eyes staring at them while jogging in the woods near Gainesville.
Bigfoot · Richland, Washington · 1967
Witness reports seeing a large, extremely hairy, apelike creature running at an impossible pace on Badger Mountain while bird hunting.
Bigfoot · Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · 1961
Witness reports backing into a hairy, human-like figure approximately five feet tall at a fire hall in Adams County, PA, in 1961.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1961
Witness reports hearing a large bipedal creature circling their tent and later hearing a loud scream while camping on the Hoopa Reservation.
Bigfoot · Atlanta, Georgia · 1961
Witness reports that four children encountered a very large animal they believed to be a gorilla in their unfinished basement, which smiled at them before disappearing.
Bigfoot · San Bernardino County, California · 1963
Witness reports hearing branches snapping and seeing movement on a steep hillside while walking alone on a dark gravel road at night.
Bigfoot · Bellaire, Ohio · 1967
Witness reports encountering a 5-foot tall, blocky, brown-furred creature that looked human-like but was not an ape, which he fed a sandwich to before it disappeared.
Bigfoot · Manistique, Michigan · 1962
Witness reports that six teenagers saw a tall, hairy humanoid walking along railroad tracks near Marblehead Swamp in their teens.
Bigfoot · Greensboro, Pennsylvania · 1969
Witness reports running into a tall, hairy, man-like creature while sneaking into a community swimming pool in Greensboro, PA.
Bigfoot · Carson, Washington · 1969
Witness reports finding huge footprints in the snow near Bear Creek and speculating they were made by Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Fountain County, Indiana · 1967
Witness reports seeing large footprints and smelling a musty rank smell while rabbit hunting near the Wabash River.
Bigfoot · Villa Grove, Illinois · 1964
Witness reports seeing an upright black figure in a harvested corn field and later finding large footprints and hair near their home.
Bigfoot · Salt Lake City, Utah · 1964
Witness reports being followed by a large, growling creature that later visited an outhouse and left a nest with reddish-brown hair in Big Cottonwood Canyon.