Bigfoot · Sam Houston National Forest, Texas · 1997
TX-1997ID case-5aa1a2e3e7First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 11, 1997to the day
- Where
- Sam Houston National Forest, Texasto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a 7 to 8 foot tall creature with shiny reddish hair and big black eyes crouching in the woods while driving on Gale Haven Road.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Sam Houston National Forest, Walker County, Texas, 77873, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 11, 1997
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-5aa1a2e3e7
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Source trail (2)
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.
- Motorist recounts daylight sighting on her property east of New Waverly
BFRO · 2011-02-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Sam Houston National Forest: while taking daughter's friends home, mother has roadside visual encounter.
NAWAC
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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