Bigfoot · Braden River, Florida · 1983
FL-1983ID case-1bf8bd49b2First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Mar 1983to the month
- Where
- Braden River, Floridato approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
A witness reports seeing an eight-foot-tall, auburn-haired creature with long arms and hands past its knees near a riverbank in Florida.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Braden River, Manatee County, Florida, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 1983
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-1bf8bd49b2
Place lookups use data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Nominatim. All credits
Source trail (3)
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.
- Bluff charge by a sasquatch at sunrise on Manatee River, 30 miles south of Tampa
BFRO · 2009-05-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Bigfoot Encounter Stories: Class A Encounters From Florida
YouTube · 2024-09-30 - 6 Terrifying Bigfoot Encounters That Will Keep You Up at Night
YouTube · 2025-03-24
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.