Bigfoot · City of White Plains, New York · 1894
NY-1894ID case-3a28f956d3Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 21, 1894to the day
- Where
- City of White Plains, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large, brown creature with a calliope-like voice was seen and heard near Kensico Lake, prompting armed hunts by locals.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- City of White Plains, Westchester County, New York, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 21, 1894
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-3a28f956d3
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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 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), November 22, 1894
Newspaper · 1894-11-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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