Bigfoot · Arkansas · 1973
AR-1973ID case-49b51178bdFallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 1973to the month
- Where
- Arkansasfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A film titled 'The Legend of Boggy Creek' is described as capturing images of the 'FOUKE MONSTER' in Arkansas swamps.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Arkansas
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Jun 1973
- 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-49b51178bd
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Source trail (1)
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.
- Washington Court House Record Herald, 1973-06-08
newspaper_ia · 1973-06-08
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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