Bigfoot · Chester County, Pennsylvania · 1987
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A silent pitch-black figure with a horse-like head that glides and vanishes after being shot at is strange.
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Dec 5, 1987to the day
- Where
- Chester County, Pennsylvaniato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a silent, pitch-black figure with a horse-like head and gliding movement in the woods near Erselton, Pennsylvania, which vanished without leaving tracks after being shot at.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Dec 5, 1987
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 20, 2026
- Case id
- case-3826fc45e2
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Source trail (2)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- I Shot Bigfoot | Navy Veteran’s Bone-Chilling Encounter in the Woods
YouTube · 2025-07-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - 5 Terrifying Bigfoot Encounters That Will Keep You Up at Night
YouTube · 2026-06-08
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.
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