Bigfoot · Chetopa, Kansas · 1978
KS-1978ID case-4aca359895Added to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Feb 23, 1978to the day
- Where
- Chetopa, Kansasto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that the Chief of Police in Chetopa found two and a half miles of large tracks which attracted thousands of people before being revealed as wooden footprints stapled to boots by a local boy.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Chetopa, Labette County, Kansas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 23, 1978
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-4aca359895
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Source trail (1)
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- Submitted on Thursday, May 28, 1998. Chief of police in Chetopa finds two and a half miles of tracks that measured 17 inches in length, 5 5/8 in width. Thousands of curious people came out to look at the tracks. The incident was reported on the local TV news
BFRO · 1998-05-28
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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