OCT 29, 2008 Today, The Willets news reported there was a Bigfoot sighting on Highway 101 north of Willets, near Shimmins road during the Mendocino Lightning Complex fires last summer. Willets is a small town in Northern California between the San Francisco bay area and Eureka. According to reporter Linda Williams, Chris LaPinto… Read more »
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Union County Ohio, 1980-Bigfoot Stalking Farmland?
The Telegram, July 2, 1980 Union County, Ohio-June 29, 1980 “We don’t know what is out there, but people are seeing something. You can’t make up that many stories like this,” said Union County officials of the reported Bigfoot sightings in Union County. Residents of Logan and Union counties have been both… Read more »
Gallia County, Ohio 1869 “Hairy Man Attacks”
Fight with a wild man… This is one of the earliest Sasquatch encounters published in a mainstream newspaper. The city of Gallipolis is located on the Ohio River in Gallia County. Gallipolis lies 40 miles up river from Huntington, WV, 109 miles Southeast of Columbus, OH, and 156 miles east of Cincinnatti. January… Read more »
Manitoba, 1941: Detailed anatomical observations of a Sasquatch specimen
The young member of a Manitoba homesteading and farming family who shot and killed a Sasquatch in error was a 17 year old youth at the time. He was, however, in his late seventies when he recounted his experience to the author in 1999, vividly recalling his mistake: It was 58 years ago and I… Read more »
Slipperyskin-Bear, Bigfoot, or Indian?
During the 1700’s, in the Northeast Kingdom area of Vermont, lived mostly woodsmen, trappers, hunters and fishermen and their families, mostly of the Wabanaki tribe. It is told that it was also inhabited by Slipperyskin, a “bear” which is supposed to have caused great misery among the settlers. He earned this name because he managed… Read more »
