Historic Sasquatch Sightings: MAINE
 The first sightings of the 1800's that were reported and documented in the State of Maine occurred in and around the Mt. Katahdin area, what is now Piscataquis County, Maine and is located north-northwest nearby communities of Millinocket and Moosehead Lake region. The famous Appalachian Trail ends in beautiful Baxter Park at the highest elevation of just over 5200 ft., atop of Mount Katahdin.
The source of these reports came from a book titled "Camping Out." The book was published in
1873 and was authored by C.A. Stevens, published by The John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The original copy of ancient book is owned by "Chris and Amy Julian" who have graciously shared the information in their book.
There are at least 6 stories of encounters with large man-like creatures, which the Indians called "Pomoola." It was also known as "Injun Devil."
The book mentions the death of a trapper years before. He had been ripped apart and at the time it was thought to be a mountain lion. Who knows? The point that got the Julian's attention was the fact that the body had been beaten against a tree trunk. Chris Julian went on to say, "I have heard mention that the book was fiction. I am not sure I agree considering the detail and the year it was written. I have checked many facts and to me these are factual accounts, -it's a diary.
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21 January 1855 -- Waldoboro Maine. J.W. McHenry chopping wood heard loud screams coming from a wooded area near his home. Upon looking up, he saw a 18 inch creature with black hair. He is said to have captured it and kept it. Waldoboro, Maine was settled in 1785, and named for John Waldo, a German immigrant.
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1946 Bigelow Mountain four dowzers were startled when they stopped along a trail to eat lunch and instead saw an enormous man walking toward them in the distance that was well over ten feet tall. He had long hair like Indians in movies & was covered in short black hair over the rest of his body. He carried what looked like a big rock. They left the area immediately.
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1949 Bigelow Mountain (150 miles Northwest of Augusta, Maine. A man named Burn White saw a 7-foot creature standing on the side of the road at 1 AM. Another person reported seeing the same creature at an earlier date.
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Brunswick, Maine:
1973 July 25 & 25 -- The Huntington family and a friend saw a 5 foot creature about a half mile from their home. The next day, Mrs. Huntington saw the same creature. It had black shaggy hair and weighed about 300 to 360 lbs. Upon further investigation, they found a tree stump had been ripped apart at the same spot of the sighting. Mr. Julian writes "...I have been in contact with the Brunswick Maine Police Department, the Investigating Department and they told me that some one had come forward and said it was them playing a joke. I asked for the person's name to confirm, but the police declined."
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Kennebec County
1975 - September 22: Manchester, Maine.
Debbie and Donna Adams saw a brown creature with a white spot on its chest watching a man who was chopping wood. The creature ran when the girl's screamed.
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Kennebec County
1975 November 21: A woman, while waiting for her husband watched a creature with long hair for ten minutes. The creature started to approach the car until she blew the horn and it ran off.
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Cumberland County Maine
1985 near the town of Portland, Maine. Springtime, 3 AM a husband and wife reported three creatures outside their house howling and charging the house.
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Cumberland County, Maine
1985 October: A man took pictures of large footprints outside his home.
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Cumberland County, Maine
1986 The same man who reported tracks around his house in 1985, saw two dark colored hair-covered men walking in his yard with the springer spaniel biting at their heels. Taking his rifle with him, he went out on the porch and hollered at them; they ran off but he could hear whistling back and forth coming from the woods.
Cumberland County, Maine
February 1987 A man getting out of his car noticed a strong unusual smell and felt as if he was being watched while walking into his house and also had the same feeling inside.
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Cumberland County, Maine:
1987 Same couple as the previous three reports heard shrieks as they got out of the car and found droppings the next morning along with tracks of footprints.
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York County, Maine
September 15 1988 A groups of Boy Scouts and 6 other campers all saw a reddish creature about half way up the trail leading to the top of Katahdin Mountain. It was digging for something, maybe roots. It was said to make very ominous sounds and it smelled like rotten eggs.
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York County, Maine
1982 A group of early morning bird watchers on the north side of Katahdin Mountain reported two large gorilla men walk through an open area between trees holding hands. The birders only saw them from the back side of them but claimed these 2 gorilla men were "quite naked" and had black hair on their back & buttocks. They walked the whole time on two legs across the small field and disappeared into the timber.
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York County, Maine
Near Acton, Summer 1985 -- Highway 109, while gathering firewood for his grandmother in southern Maine, the informant heard a noise behind him, he turned, expecting to see a moose. Some 30 feet behind him was a creature watching him...and he “split.” (The Track Record 96)
Cumberland County, Maine
1995 In Cornville, Maine, a man finds 17-inch footprints and reports it to authorities.
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