Bigfoot · Lake Cherokee, North Carolina · 1980
NC-1980ID case-1796e73349First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Dec 1980to the month
- Where
- Lake Cherokee, North Carolinato approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a tall, dark, hairy creature at Lake Cherokee in the late 1970s or early 1980s that watched him before walking away.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Lake Cherokee, Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1980
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-1796e73349
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Submitted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003. Duck hunter has encounter on Lake Cherokee.
BFRO · 2003-12-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Man has encounter while duck hunting on Lake Cherokee.
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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