Bigfoot · Baxter County, Arkansas · 1980
AR-1980ID case-12bab090d7First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 1980to the month
- Where
- Baxter County, Arkansasto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing deep grunting sounds and seeing trees moving as if something large were walking through the brush while fishing on the White River.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Baxter County, Arkansas, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 1980
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-12bab090d7
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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.
- Youth hears vocalizations and is trailed while fishing on White River
BFRO · 2004-02-11
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.