Bigfoot · Palestine, Texas · 1983
TX-1983ID case-5f7387e47fFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1983to the year
- Where
- Palestine, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that three cousins riding bikes in the Piney Woods of Palestine, Texas, encountered a 7-7.5 foot tall, furry humanoid that cracked a hickory nut and walked away while maintaining eye contact.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Palestine, Anderson County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1983
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-5f7387e47f
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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.
- Kids have unusual visual encounter while riding bikes through Piney Woods.
NAWAC
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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.