Bigfoot · La Porte, Indiana · 2008
IN-2008ID case-050f79fdeeFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 8, 2008to the day
- Where
- La Porte, Indianato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing a bloodcurdling scream and seeing a log thrown from the brush while hunting in a tree stand.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- La Porte, LaPorte County, Indiana, 46350, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Oct 8, 2008
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-050f79fdee
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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.
- Bow hunter has possible encounter while in his tree stand near LaPorte
BFRO · 2009-11-29
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.