Bigfoot · Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas · 1964
TX-1964ID case-60b0ab45e1First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1964to the year
- Where
- Big Thicket National Preserve, Texasto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large, dark, hairy creature at the edge of a cemetery woods while visiting a grave with a friend and his mother.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, Texas, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1964
- 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-60b0ab45e1
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Witness spots a large, dark, hairy creature standing 50 yards away
BFRO · 1997-11-09
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - As a child, witness has encounter at cemetery.
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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