Bigfoot · Maud, Texas · 1986
TX-1986ID case-2b03eec728First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 1986to the month
- Where
- Maud, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
Witness reports that his nephew encountered a large, hairy humanoid creature while deer hunting near Wright-Patman Lake in November 1986.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Maud, Bowie County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 1986
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-2b03eec728
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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.
- Submitted on Thursday, February 19, 2004. Deer hunter encounters tall, upright, hairy creature near Wright Patman Lake
BFRO · 2004-02-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - DOGMAN & BIGFOOT 10 ABSOLUTELY HEART-STOPPING ENCOUNTERS
YouTube · 2026-09-14 - Deer hunter reports encounter in Sulphur River bottoms at western edge of Wright-Patman Lake.
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.
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.