Bigfoot · Pocahontas County, West Virginia · 1920
WV-1920ID case-073d327cb4Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 1920to the month
- Where
- Pocahontas County, West Virginiato county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
A strange beast similar to the one on Flat Mountain was reported roaming in Pocahontas County but was neither killed nor captured.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 1920
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-073d327cb4
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 1 of Greenbrier independent (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]), November 26, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-11-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.), November 27, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-11-27 - Image 2 of Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.), December 2, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-12-02
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.