Bigfoot · Bloomfield, Pennsylvania · 1881
PA-1881ID case-6004cc9e5cFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 1881to the month
- Where
- Bloomfield, Pennsylvaniafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a huge orang-outang described as a 'hairy man' standing in a stooping posture near a river in Borneo.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Oct 1881
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-6004cc9e5c
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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.
- Image 3 of The New Bloomfield, Pa. times (New Bloomfield, Pa.), October 11, 1881
Newspaper · 1881-10-11
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.