Bigfoot · Martinsville, Indiana · 2011
IN-2011ID case-5ed1611b13First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jul 7, 2011to the day
- Where
- Martinsville, Indianato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing rhythmic knocking and smelling an extreme odor while fishing at Prather Lake, with their dog exhibiting fearful behavior before they left the area without seeing a creature directly.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 7, 2011
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-5ed1611b13
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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.
- Possible encounter experienced by a family while fishing at Prather Lake
BFRO · 2011-07-10
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.