Bigfoot · Gilchrist Island, Florida · 1963
FL-1963ID case-656908064cFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Mar 1963to the month
- Where
- Gilchrist Island, Floridato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports observing barefoot prints 12-14 inches long and 6-7 inches wide during a Boy Scout campout in March 1963.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Gilchrist Island, Citrus County, Florida, 34451, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 1963
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-656908064c
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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.
- Man recalls a possible up-close nighttime encounter on Gilchrist Island
BFRO · 2011-01-04
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
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