Bigfoot · Ballyboley Forest, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann · 1998
UNI-1998ID case-36f6aee76fAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 1998to the month
- Where
- Ballyboley Forest, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireannto approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
[name] and her husband reported seeing an 8-foot tall ape-like creature with dark brown fur that reared up, smashed a stick against a tree, and ran away.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Ballyboley Forest, Mid and East Antrim District, County Antrim, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1998
- 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-36f6aee76f
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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.
- Couple see Bigfoot in Balleyboley Northern Ireland 1998
ukwildman · 2016-01-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Is Ballyboley Irelands Cannock Chase ?
ukwildman · 2016-02-18 - Couple Sees ‘Bigfoot’ in Northern Ireland
ukwildman · 2019-11-14
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.