State by State Sightings
Montana
| Date | Location | Witness | Incident |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1892 | Anaconda | 'a wild-eyed individual' | Saw hairy 'varmint' in the mountains. |
| 1959 | Nr Seeley Lake | R.W. Rye, game guide | Bear hunter saw Bigfoot but did not shoot it. |
| 1960s | Nr Columbia Falls | Tom Tiede, journalist | Gray-haired Bigfoot heard wailing and seen walking through woods. |
| Nov. 1962 | Lost Trail Pass | Reed Christenson, wife & daughter | Saw 6-7-ft Bigfoot run up embankment beside road at 2 am. |
| 17 May 1964 | Brown's Gulch, 15 miles from Butte | Boy scout | Woken at 4 am, looked out of tent to see Bigfoot which ran off leaving tracks 20 ins long by 7 ins wide. |
| Aug. 1964 | Grid Creek | Lou Bigley | Truck driver saw brown 5-ft Bigfoot standing in middle of road. |
| 11 Sept. 1968 | Nr Billings | Harold E. Nelson | Opened door of his motor trailer and was faced by Bigfoot with reddish-brown hair. |
| Sept. 1969 | Lost Trail Pass | Man | Wood-cutter watched by 7-ft 'apeman'; the hair on its neck stood up when he started his power saw. |
| Sept. 1974 | St Mary's Peak in the Bitterroot Mtns | Chris Tobias, Diane Stringen, Kathy Mudd & two other university students | While hiking, saw two black-haired Bigfeet walking along ridge. |
| Dec. 1974 | Bootlegger Trail | Coyote hunter | Fired 3 times with 30:30 at 7-8-ft Bigfoot, and escaped in car when it kept coming. |
| 26 Dec. 1975 | Vaughn | Two teenage girls | Fired into air above Bigfoot, which dropped to ground and was helped into thicket by others. |
| 21 Feb. 1976 | Ulm | Two boys | One saw a hairy arm, the other saw a tall creature with glowing whitish-yellow eyes and covered in dark brown hair. |
| 22 Feb. 1976 | Nr Sun River | Man | Saw Bigfoot on a back road. |
| 7 March 1976 | Nr Vaughn | Woman | Saw reddish-brown Bigfoot, holding one arm forward, standing in ditch beside road. |
| March 1976 | Dempsey Road, Great Falls | Boy | Saw Bigfoot standing in middle of road about 9 pm; it went through hedge into house yard. |
| 4 April 1976 | East Helena | Robert Lea (16) | Saw two Bigfeet in field near house; one picked something up. |
| 21 July 1976 | Nr Rainbow Dam | Four men | Two Bigfeet seen walking along hill towards river. |
| 28 July 1976 | Nr Great Falls | Woman | At 5:30 am saw 7-8-ft Bigfoot at site of 22 Feb. 1976 sighting; as she stopped, it walked away. |
| July 1976 | Pfeiling Gulch | Mother & daughter | Watched Bigfoot for 30 minutes. It was about 8 ft tall, dark brown except for straw-colored hair on head and shoulders. It watched them picking berries. |
| Spring 1977 | Nr Gerber | Three men | Chased 6½-ft Bigfoot covered with black hair 4 ins long. It turned to face them so they drove off. |
| 14 June 1977 | Silver City | Two campers | Saw three Bigfeet, 10 ft tall. |
| 20 Aug. 1977 | Belt Creek Canyon | Staff Sergeant Fred Wilson & two others | At 2 am saw Bigfoot with tan hair and no neck standing upright in bushes. Fired at it, but drove off when it ran towards them. |
Data from "Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings (1818-1980)"
(The Bigfoot Casebook, Janet & Colin Bord, 1982, New York: Granada Publishing)
