Bigfoot · Bowie County, Texas · 1978
TX-1978ID case-0e257c5b48Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1978to the year
- Where
- Bowie County, Texasfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness's friends [name] and [name] saw a figure resembling a big man in an eskimo coat running through the woods.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Bowie County, Texas, United States
mapped to county level · from the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words. - When
- 1978
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-0e257c5b48
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- Several incidents in the woods near the Sulphur River south of Texarkana
BFRO · 1996-12-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Several incidents in the woods near the Sulphur River.
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.