Bigfoot · Sweden · 1985
SWE-1985ID case-64857c8ccbFallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1985to the year
- Where
- Swedenfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Two elderly moose hunters in Helsingland tracked a big, smelly unknown animal through the woods that terrified their dogs.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Sweden
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- 1985
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-64857c8ccb
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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.
- Goblin, Troll or Bigfoot? A Man in Sweden Sees Black Haired 'Monkey Creature' hiding in the woods.
ukwildman · 2019-10-14
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.