Bigfoot · Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania · 1978
PA-1978ID case-500e5333e8Added to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 15, 1978to the day
- Where
- Sandy Lake, Pennsylvaniato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that his mother and he observed a large brown figure identified as bigfoot near a stream behind their home in Sandy Lake.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 15, 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-500e5333e8
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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.
- Memory told of a close daylight encounter behind a home outside Sandy Lake
BFRO · 2015-02-16
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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