Alleged Bigfoot sightings                               

• 1840: Protestant missionary Reverend             Elkanah   Walker recorded myths of hairy        giants that      were persistent among Native    Americans living in Spokane, Washington. The    Indians claimed that these giants steal salmon   and had a strong smell.                             
• 1870: An account by a California hunter who     claimed seeing a sasquatch scattering             his          campfire remains was printed in the  Titusville, Pennsylvania Morning Herald on        November 10, 1870. The incident reportedly    occurred a year before, in the mountains near   Grayson, CA                                         
• 1893: An account by Theodore Roosevelt was    published in The Wilderness Hunter. Roosevelt   related a story which was told to him by "a      beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman"      living in Idaho. Some have suggested similarities to Bigfoot reports. (Note: Roosevelt's testimony is the only evidence this encounter ever           occurred).                                            
• 1924: Albert Ostman claimed to have been       kidnapped and held captive for several days by   a family of sasquatch. The incident occurred     during the summer in Toba Inlet, British          Columbia.                                             
• 1924: Fred Beck and four other miners claimed  to have been attacked by several sasquatches in Ape Canyon in July, 1924. The creatures         reportedly hurled large rocks at the miners’      cabin for several hours during the night. This    case was publicized in newspaper reports printed in 1924.                                              
• 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children          claimed to have escaped their home when a       large sasquatch, allegedly 7½ feet tall,           approached their residence in Ruby Creek,        British,Columbia.                                     
• 1940s onward: People living in Fouke, Arkansas  have reported that a Bigfoot-like creature,      dubbed the “Fouke Monster”, inhabits the        region. A high number of reports have occurred  in the Boggy Creek area and are the basis for   the 1973 film The Legend of Boggy Creek.      
• 1955: William Roe claimed to have seen a        close-up view of a female sasquatch from         concealment near Mica Mountain, British          Columbia.                                             
• 1958: Two construction workers, Leslie Breazale and Ray Kerr, reported seeing                      sasquatch    about 45 miles northeast             of    Eureka, California. Sixteen-inch tracks     had previously been spotted in the   northern    California     woods.                                                
• 1967: On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson   and Robert Gimlin captured a purported           sasquatch on film in Bluff Creek, California in what would come to be known as the Patterson-Gimlin film.                                          
• 1970: A family of bigfoot-like creatures called "zoobies" was observed on multiple occasions by a San Diego psychiatrist named Dr. Baddour and his family near their Alpine, California home, as reported in an interview with San Diego County  Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Doug Huse, who              investigated the sightings.                         
• 1995: On August 28, 1995, a TV film crew     from Waterland Productions pulled off the road into Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park and filmed what they claimed to be a sasquatch in their RV's Headlights.                             
• 2005: On April 16, 2005, A creature            resembling a bigfoot was reportedly seen on the bank of the Nelson River in Norway House,      Manitoba. Two minutes and forty seconds of    footage was taken by ferry operator Bobby      Clarke from across the Nelson River.            
• 2006: On December 14, 2006, Shaylane         Beatty, a woman from the Dechambault Lake,   Saskatchewan, Canada, was driving to Prince    Albert, Saskatchewan when, she claimed, saw   the creature near the side of the highway at    Torch River. Several men from the village drove down to the area and found footprints, which   they tracked through the snow. They found a   tuft of brown hair and took photographs of the tracks.                                                 
• 2007: On September 16, 2007,                   hunter    Rick    Jacobs captured an image of a possible sasquatch using an automatically         triggered camera attached to a tree.^[30] A       spokesperson for the Pennsylania Game          Commission challenged the Bigfoot explanation, saying that it looked like "a bear with a severe case of mange.The sighting happened near the town of Ridgway, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny National Forest, which is about 115 miles north of Pittsburgh.