Lummi Indian Reservation sighting, Whatcom County, Washington
After receiving several reports of Sasquatch sightings on the Lummi Nation Indian Reservation, Lummi Police Sgt. Ken Cooper was called to the residence of 78-year-old Emma Smith on the night October 23, 1975.
She reported a Bigfoot attempting to break into her home, and she had fled in terror. Sgt. Cooper found the plastic on a storm door torn and the door’s wooden frame splintered. Boards has also been torn from a nearby smokehouse, but he could not find the creature, nor any person.
He returned to the residence around 2:30 a.m., shining the spotlight from his patrol car into the woods. He found a group of seven people already there, with their own spotlights set directly on a huge seven-and-a-half foot (2.3 meter) tall “hair creature”—a Bigfoot.
Cooper aimed his 12-gauge shotgun at the creature. Concerned that it could be a human in a costume, he yelled, “If there’s somebody just fooling around you better knock it off because we have weapons.” The creature just crouched down. As Sgt. Cooper stepped forward, the creature lowered himself even further until only his head was showing above the brush.
For 20 minutes, Sgt. Cooper and the other people stared down the crouching “hair creature” until they heard noises in the brush to their right, and people said they were seeing more Bigfoots there.
At that point, Cooper decided it was time to leave the scene.
He returned to the location after dawn and found bare footprints in the frost-covered ground. He measured the footprints. They were 18 inches (45 cm) long and 7 inches (17 cm) wide.
Over the coming weeks, the Lummi Tribal Police received over 100 reports of sightings of Bigfoot creatures. Sgt. Cooper himself saw Bigfoots two more times shortly after the first encounter.
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