Yeti reports from the 1980s

16 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.

1. 

   Yeti · Lake County, Ohio · 1981

   Lake County, Ohio1 independent source

   Witness reports seeing a large, hunched, brown-furred creature with gold/yellow eyes from the waist up behind a drop-off in a park.

2. 

   Yeti · 珠穆朗玛峰 ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ། सगरमाथा, कोशी प्रदेश · 1980

   珠穆朗玛峰 ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ། सगरमाथा, कोशी प्रदेश1 independent source

   A Polish expedition claimed to have found large tracks on Mount Everest which were photographed by the team physician.

3. 

   Yeti · 珠穆朗玛峰 ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ། सगरमाथा, कोशी प्रदेश · 1984

   珠穆朗玛峰 ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ། सगरमाथा, कोशी प्रदेश1 independent source

   Two Australian climbers reported finding strange tracks near the summit of Mount Everest that could not be attributed to other known groups.

4. 

   Yeti · Золотые горы Алтая, Сибирский федеральный округ · 1982

   Золотые горы Алтая, Сибирский федеральный округ1 independent source

   Mongol herders identified stone tools as made by the Almas, who supposedly live in caves in the Altai Mountains.

5. 

   Yeti · 1980s

   location unknown1 independent source

   A miner reports seeing a gray chimpanzee-like creature on his roof which then jumped off and ran into the woods.

6. 

   Yeti · 1986

   location unknown1 independent source

   [name] plans to set up a base camp on the edge of the Nangpa glacier to conduct a wildlife census and hopes to photograph the track maker of a Yeti.

7. 

   Yeti · Uttarakhand, India · 1986

   Uttarakhand, India1 independent source

   [name] reports seeing a large, erect entity over 6 feet tall behind a bush after observing strange tracks and a groove in the snow.

8. 

   Yeti · 1988

   location unknown1 independent source

   Yeti-like tracks were found heading towards a forest 12 miles south of Donag.

9. 

   Yeti · 1988

   location unknown1 independent source

   A photograph of a Mongolian yeti sitting on a rock is reported from 1988.

10. 

    Yeti · 1987

    location unknown1 independent source

    Mr. [name] and two Sherpas found and photographed supposed Yeti tracks west of Ngozumba Glacier.

11. 

    Yeti · 1986

    location unknown1 independent source

    Reinhold Messner claims to have encountered a Yeti in Tibet, describing it as a large creature 6.5 feet tall covered with hair.

12. 

    Yeti · 1986

    location unknown1 independent source

    [name] described the creature he saw as an animal so unknown to zoology books that it was not a man or human.

13. 

    Yeti · 1986

    location unknown1 independent source

    [name] hopes to investigate the Yeti problem as part of a human ecology project he is directing in the Barun Valley.

14. 

    Yeti · 1986

    location unknown1 independent source

    [name] stated that the creature he encountered was not a man or human but an animal unknown to zoology books.

15. 

    Yeti · 1986

    location unknown1 independent source

    Dr. [name] refused to discuss a previous Yeti sighting he had reportedly told the interviewer beforehand.

16. 

    Yeti · 1985

    location unknown1 independent source

    Witness reports that [name] stated the Yeti might like Genesee beer during an expedition in early February.