Great Falls, Montana December 26, 1975 Sheriff's captain Keith Wolverton, Cascade County said two young women
reported watching three hair covered creatures emerge from some brush
and walk into a field. One fired a rifle over their heads at about 150
feet and the creatures fled back into the bush. They estimated their height
at 7 feet, 6 feet and the smaller one at 5 feet tall. The witnesses passed
the polygraph test !! Greg Mastel Investigated the report; it was also published
in the Great Falls Tribune.
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- - - - - Ulm, Montana February 21, 1976 Two boys, ages 12 and 13 were south of the Ulk Bridge over the Missouri
River just before noon when one saw a hair covered arm extending through
some brush. The other boy who was ahead saw a very tall creature covered
with blackish brown hair and eyes that glowed whitish yellow. Not reported
to the Wolverton Sheriff for 16 days but when it was reported both
boys passed the polygraph test. Published in the Great Falls Tribune
on March 11, 1976. Credit Greg Mastel and Tim Church to JG BC Archives. - - - - -
- - - - - Logan Pass,
Montana
Summer 1975
A Man from Browning reported seeing a bigfoot to District Ranger Bob Forsen,
he has the report according to Mrs. Jerry Pannomi of Babb, Montana. In
June and July of 1975 they heard screams...
Great Falls Sheriff's Department, JG's cardfiles BC Archives.
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- - - - - Great Falls,
Montana
March 25, 1976
A 15 year old boy, returning to Country Lanes Trailer Park on Bicycle
on Dempsey Road about 9 o'clock at night saw a hairy creature standing
in the road. It moved rapidly through the hedge onto the house lot and
was described as a sasquatch-like thing. Great Falls Sheriff's Department
said the boy passed a polygraph test, no problem. JG cardfiles, BC
Archives.
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- - - - - North of
Great Falls, Montana
March 7, 1976
A woman who wouldn't give her name phoned sheriff to report on road to
Shelby, north of Vaughn, that she shaw a creature in ditch, one arm forward
as if it was going to cross the road. It was 7 feet tall, covered with
reddish brown hair about 4.5 inches in length. She gave no other details.
Credit Greg Mastell to JG's cardfiles, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Near Great
Falls, Montana
February 1976
Leonard Hegele of East Helena Montana was driving interstate 15 south
of Great Falls International Airport when he saw a large humanoid creature
walking in a field a quarter mile from the highway. He pursued it with
a .357 magnum. It turned to face him so he beat it. Estimated it's height
at 7 feet tall with 3 feet wide shoulders, solid and muscular. Thought
feet were approximately 14-16 inches but saw no tracks, its arms swung
at its side. While running Hegele couldn't keep up, only got within 700
feet of it running. He told Cascade County Sheriff about it, wife and
children were with him. This was published in the Great Falls Tribune.
Tim Church investigated, reported to JG, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Near Vaughn, Montana
October 12, 1976
Gail Kapptie and son found sheep pen gate pushed in and 18 inch, four
toe footprints. A lot of grain gone from a barrel. That night when the
dog was barking, she went out and saw the dog barking at an 8 foot tall,
tan, ape-like creature with very long arms standing upright by the chicken
coop. It ran off at high speed. John Green cardfiles, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Beaverhead County,
Montana
15 miles south of Jackson October 1960
Dr. Joseph Feathers, Western Montana College of Education in the 60's
wrote that Dean Staton found bare human footprint in snow, which measured
17 inches by 9 inches by 5 inches that seemingly stepped over a windfall
four feet high without breaking stride. They tracked the thing 300 yards
to a rocky slope on the mountainside before losing it. John Green cardfiles,
BC Archives
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- - - - - Wilderness, Montana
1968
Frank Zalenski of Great Falls, Montana wrote in a letter to Roger Patterson
that he, Zalenski and his partner Bob Marshall were hunting and happened
upon a fair size footprint. "I put my boot in it and it was still
a good three to four inches longer." Patterson to John Green, cardfile,
BC Archives.
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- - - - - Glacier National
Park, Montana
Carole Munson and nine other people followed good tracks on a snowfield
measuring 16 inches by 8 inches by 4 inches, which took 5 foot strides
three inches deep in surface over frozen snow for a quarter mile. The
creature had 4 toes. Ron Olson investigated and sent report to John Green.
Cardfiles BC Archives.
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- - - - - Selway
Wilderness, Montana
Fall 1972
Ray Higgins was hiking in an area where his mule had died a few months
earlier; found the body moved and a set of 18.5 inch footprints in a nearby
bog. Credit Greg Mastel to John Green cardfile BC Archives.
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- - - - - Crystal
Lake, Kalispell, Montana
1970
People at a party found 18 inch footprints of a creature with a crippled
foot and another set near garbage cans. Credit Greg Mastel and Tim Church
to John Green's cardfiles, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Crystal Lake, Kalispell, Montana
1971 Gary Huff tracked 17-inch footprints over a ridge and observed two humanoids holding hands. A very big one and a smaller one both with a prolific growth of hair all over their bodies and they were unclothed.
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- - - - -
Idaho/
Montana
Summer 1973
Informant Wayne Schrieber went fishing at a place called "Apes' Den
Creek" and saw giant human like tracks on sand bar. Later had rock
big as football thrown over his head from 100 feet away, then giant branches
thrown over his head. He left. Credit Greg Mastel to John Green's cardfiles
BC Archives.
Note: So far, I can find no references to any such place in either Idaho
or Montana.
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- - - - - Rattlesnake Creek,
Montana
Outside Missoula 1974
A family by the name of Snyder while partying hears loud screams outside.
They rushed out and found 18 inch footprints. The grandfather told of
hearing loud screams frequently while living in the same area.
Credit Greg Mastel and Tim Church to John Green, cardfile BC Archives.
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- - - - - Kalispell,
Montana
August 1974
An unnamed woman was out riding with her dogs, found two sets of tracks,
one with only three toes and just the front part of the foot. Dogs went
wild at the scent. The woman took pictures of the footprints. 16 inch
track with 5 toes; large second toe. The tracks of the creature going
uphill became 3-toed. Tracings and casts were also made. Credit Greg Mastel
and Tim Church to John Green, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Columbia
Falls, Montana
June 1971
A worker for the Kalispell paper was in the bush looking for a hermit
for an interview and got lost. Heard a sound like "happy wailing
- rhythmic singsong." Then he saw coming down off of the hill at
a moderate speed, a gray haired "B-grade Gorilla Movie Creature." It was swinging arms and had a small head, disappeared among the trees.
Credit Tom Tiede to JG, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Seeley Lake -Glacier
Creek area, Montana
October 1959
Roy W. Rye, a university educated experienced bear hunter from Billings
Montana was out hunting grizzly in the early afternoon upon seeing large
tracks in the snow he noticed a creature resting its head and arms on
a fallen tree five or six feet above snow. It had a large flat head, sloping
shoulders, stubby ears, short neck, was brownish gray haired. It screamed
and rocked from side to side and slobbered. Four men disappeared in this
area in two years. Broken Rifle found. This report was published in Montana
Sports Outdoors in December of 1960 and in Saga Magazine in
January of 1961.. JG BC Archives.
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- - - - - Top of
Lost Trail Pass, Montana
September 1962
Reed Christenson and family, while nearing the top of the pass, saw a
6 foot tall dark brown creature with long fangs, long arms and no neck.
It walked to the side of the road and went up bank and watched their car
go by. Their French Poodle acted strangely. Credit Greg Mastel to JG BC
Archives
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- - - - - Hamilton,
Montana
August 1964
During morning hours, Lou Rigley noticed movement on a rock, then saw
a five foot hairy ape that ran off at unbelievable speed through the woods.
The informant has move away. Credit Greg Mastel to JG BC Archives.
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- - - - - Little Belt Mountains,
Montana
September 1966
An Army National Guard Flyer whose name is held confidential, was flying
through the canyon, on steep side he noticed a gray object. For within
100 yards of it and said "it looked like a big man in a Shiny blanket
with his knees pulled up." Return pass over the area 30 seconds later it was gone.
Figures no human could have got near to timber in that time. He was supposed
to be flying from Helena, Montana to Lewiston Idaho, but if so, by my atlas,
he was lost or messing around. (JG) The witness wrote to Tim Church. BC Archives.
Duplicated in the card files.
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- - - - - Bonner, Montana
A mile east of Bonner.
Summer 1969
Steve Filtcher of Roseburg Oregon and Rose and Jerry Filtcher of Eugene
Oregon were fishing a mile east of Bonner, Montana when Steve saw what
he thought was a bear, but it had a man like face, was manlike in form
and walk upright. It was brownish black and about 8 feet tall. All three
fisherman had a feeling they were being watched. Credit Greg Mastel's
cousin to JG, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Darby,
Montana
September 1969
Ted Foster was cutting lodgepoles with a chainsaw. Informant said he saw
a black hairy giant about 7 feet tall, at a distance of about 50 feet
from where he was working. Foster thought it may have been curious or
attracted by the chainsaw noise. JG, BC Archives.
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- - - - - Kalispell, Montana
West of Kalispell
An unnamed man reported to police in September of 1973 his car was run
off the road by two large gorillas walking on the hind legs. Credit Ken
Coon to JG BC Archives
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- - - - - Bonner, Montana
September of 1973
Many motorists reported seeing an ape throwing rocks off a cliff at their
cards. The story was reported to Greg Mastel in Missoula Montana and sent
to JG. BC Archives
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- - - - - Hamilton,
Montana
Fall, 1974
Mrs. Presley Lay, her son and his wife and children were observers in
a grove along the Bitterroot River when they saw 200 yard away a large
hair covered figure walking quickly from one side of a clearing to the
other side of the clearing. It was brown, very large, upright at all times
with arms swinging in an exaggerated fashion. Mastel to JG. BC Archives.
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- - - - - Mission Mountains,
Montana
A forest ranger named Bill Welch reported to Tim Church that he had sighted
a white Sasquatch and this was in the middle of summertime, 1974 near
Sealley Lake.
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- - - - - Upper Bitterroot
Valley, Montana
September 1974
A witness who wished to be kept confidential reported he was hiking up
to the viewpoint when he turned around to look for his two companion hikers.
The three of them saw a groups of two 8 to 10 foot manlike creatures come
out of a grove of trees 150 yards behind them. They came toward him a
few minutes then went over the bank. The hikers coming up the trail behind
them saw the creatures also. The area was too rocky for footprints. Greg
Mastel of Missoula to JG. BC Archives.
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- - - - - Near Kalispell,
Montana
June, 1975
Road workers coming to work discovered a Sasquatch on one of their road
cats.
Tim Church to JG. BC Archives.
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- - - - - North of
Great Falls, Montana
December 1975
A hunter called the office of Cascade County Sheriff to report shooting
at a tall, hair-covered creature with a 30.06 rifle. May have been a hoax,
but it is recorded in the BC Archives by JG and published in the local
Great Falls Tribune. February 11, 1976.
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- - - - - Near Helena,
Montana
February 1976
Leonard Semgard, then 13 years old ran to a phone booth to phone his grandmother
to ask her to come and pick him up. He had seen a tall dark hair covered
creature walking away from him through a field he usually walks through
on his way home from school. The creature was around 8 feet tall. G. Mastel to JG BC Archives.
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.....There were considerably
more accounts out of Montana to log online from the seventies but my fingers
went numb....also an unusual amount of Montana reports from the archives
were duplicated in the card files and I discarded those.....
Great Falls, Montana