Bigfoot · Red River County, Texas · 1983
TX-1983ID case-36aa8183abFallback locationAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Dec 1983to the month
- Where
- Red River County, Texasfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that their aunt screamed while seeing a hairy creature crossing the road in headlights before it jumped into the woods.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Red River County, Texas, United States
mapped to county level · from the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words. - When
- Dec 1983
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-36aa8183ab
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Source trail (2)
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.
- While searching for their uncle, two boys see a tall creature look at them, grunt and run off towards the woods
BFRO · 1998-12-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - While searching for their uncle, two boys have visual encounter.
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
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