Bigfoot · Siloam Springs, Arkansas · 1981
AR-1981ID case-06ee717b0bFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 1981to the month
- Where
- Siloam Springs, Arkansasto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a reddish-brown sasquatch digging by a bridge on Highway 68 in October 1981 before it ran across the road.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas, 72761, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1981
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-06ee717b0b
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Motorist crossing a bridge sees sasquatch digging in the dirt below
BFRO · 2003-04-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Motorist has visual encounter while crossing bridge on his way to work.
NAWAC
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.
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