Bigfoot · Grant County, Wisconsin · 1970
WI-1970ID case-2c33338b8cAdded to map Oct 19, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Sep 1970to the month
- Where
- Grant County, Wisconsinto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator's friends' parents reported seeing a bigfoot-type creature known as the Benton Monster in 1970.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Grant County, Wisconsin, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Sep 1970
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 19, 2026
- Case id
- case-2c33338b8c
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- My First (and last) face to face sighting with these things (Part 1)
Reddit · 2022-04-21
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.
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.