Bigfoot · Thoreau, New Mexico · 2011
NM-2011ID case-019eb80694First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Mar 2011to the month
- Where
- Thoreau, New Mexicoto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a tall, ape-like figure crossing Highway 612 near Bluewater while driving home from Gallup.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Thoreau, McKinley County, New Mexico, 87323, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 2011
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-019eb80694
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Motorist has close-range encounter with large, hairy biped south of Thoreau
BFRO · 2011-03-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, John Green (1978)
Newspaper-publisher's file of Pacific Northwest reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch, Don Hunter with Rene Dahinden (1975)
Casebook from a long-time field investigator.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Bigfoot, Marian T. Place (1974)
1970s account of reports and searches.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, Loren Coleman (2003)
Coleman's history and case survey.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.