Bigfoot · New Orleans, Louisiana · 1868
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Apr 1868to the month
- Where
- New Orleans, Louisianafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports shooting a female ashiego with a white-faced infant clinging to her, noting the mother was black-skinned and bald-headed while the child had straight hair.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Apr 1868
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-3176983fbc
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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.
- Image 2 of The morning star and Catholic messenger (New Orleans [La.]), April 5, 1868, (Morning)
Newspaper · 1868-04-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
A match on the place name, not necessarily this case. Once you have borrowed a book, its link opens the search inside it on the place.
- Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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More on this creature
- 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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