Other / Unknown reports from the 1970s
15 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
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.
Other / Unknown · Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, Wisconsin · 1971
Witness reports hearing a loud hissing noise and seeing splashing at a lake edge in northern Wisconsin in 1971.
Other / Unknown · Algoma District, Ontario · 1970s
The narrator and a friend camping on an island in Algonquin Park heard a creature charging around the island with a deafening scream and moving faster than physically possible through dense forest.
Other / Unknown · Sabine Parish, Louisiana · 1970s
The witness saw a black shoulder-like shape move slowly behind a tree while squirrel hunting, but found nothing when approaching.
Other / Unknown · 1979
Witness and friends found large prints in the snow on an old road that did not look like typical footprints.
Other / Unknown · 1970
[name] reports seeing strange animals while passing through a dimensional door in a living movie.
Other / Unknown · 1977
Witness and his father found a broken trap and chain at the base of a palm tree with a horrible skunky smell but no animal inside.
Other / Unknown · 1978
Witness reports a hog-like creature with horns and bright yellow eyes shooting out of the ground and following their car.
Other / Unknown · 1970s
Witness reports seeing a huge bright orb at treetop level in the same wooded area.
Other / Unknown · Loveland, Ohio · 1972
Loveland P.D. patrolman [name] sighted a creature with leathery skin and the face of a frog or lizard near the Little Miami River.
Other / Unknown · Hopkins County, Texas · 1979
A witness reports that she, her boyfriend, and a friend were in a parked car when a large shadow crossed the vehicle causing it to shake, which terrified their tough friend into crying.
Other / Unknown · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh · 1970s
Witness reports that his granduncle encountered a woman who revealed herself to be a Chudail with backward feet while preparing food in his rented house.
Other / Unknown · 1972
Witness reports [name] and [name] asked an artist to draw the creature they had both seen.
Other / Unknown · 1970s
The narrator's teacher reports seeing a creature with a woman's body and horse hooves inside an abandoned house in Texas.
Other / Unknown · 1970
Witness reports reports of an alleged Tatzelwurm were published in a Swiss newspaper.
Other / Unknown · 1976
The Machiguenga reported seeing a cow-sized animal with dark matted fur and a giant anteater-like snout.