Bigfoot · Aberdeenshire, Alba / Scotland · 1940
UNI-1940ID case-24cab709a4Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1940to the year
- Where
- Aberdeenshire, Alba / Scotlandto county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
A witness reports seeing a large brown creature with an erect posture and broad shoulders swaggering away down the mountain side after feeling a sense of morbidity in his tent.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Aberdeenshire, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1940
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-24cab709a4
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.
- the brown thing on the mountain
ukwildman · 2015-04-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The Caingorm Running man legend
ukwildman · 2015-10-02 - The 20ft Brown Creature of Ben Macdhui
ukwildman · 2016-03-08
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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