Bigfoot · Meadville, Mississippi · 1868
MS-1868ID case-0c082a6e04Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 4, 1868to the day
- Where
- Meadville, Mississippito town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
A letter from a friend in Meadville reports excitement over a strange creature seen near the village, similar to one previously sighted near Vicksburg.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Meadville, Franklin County, Mississippi, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 4, 1868
- 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-0c082a6e04
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Source trail (1)
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 4 of Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.]), June 26, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-06-26
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.
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