Bigfoot · Louisiana · 1970s
LA-1970ID case-4568e3e51dAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- the 1970sto the decade
- Where
- Louisianato state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports their grandfather had a family of bigfoots living near Hornbeck, LA, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Louisiana, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- the 1970s
- 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
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-4568e3e51d
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Eyewitness described ongoing encounters in 1980's
oregonbigfoot · 2005-04-25
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.
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