Bigfoot · Kirknewton, Alba / Scotland · 1986
UNI-1986ID case-341fb5d840Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1986to the year
- Where
- Kirknewton, Alba / Scotlandto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
A witness reports that he and his friends saw a large dark figure running across a field in an upright and all-fours manner before vaulting a fence.
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
- Kirknewton, West Lothian, Alba / Scotland, EH27 8AH, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1986
- 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-341fb5d840
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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.
- Kirknewton West Lothian "the strange thing" 86/87
ukwildman · 2016-06-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Part 1 - Cryptid Creatures, UFO's and Silver man, Mysterious Tales from the East Coast of Scotland.
ukwildman · 2020-06-01 - The Knock Forest is a place filled with Mysterious Creatures and Unexplained Events
ukwildman · 2020-06-13
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.