Bigfoot · Lancaster, Pennsylvania · 1858
PA-1858ID case-1782dea618Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Dec 1858to the month
- Where
- Lancaster, Pennsylvaniato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a hairy, man-like creature seen frequently in Lancaster, Pa., which was observed sucking cows and fleeing like a deer.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 17575, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1858
- 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-1782dea618
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Source trail (1)
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.
- Image 1 of The prairie news (Okolona, Miss.), December 9, 1858
Newspaper · 1858-12-09
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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