Bigfoot · Red Oak Creek, Texas · 1938
TX-1938ID case-6a8028aaaaAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1938to the year
- Where
- Red Oak Creek, Texasto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that his father and three friends encountered a huge white-haired figure while coon hunting near Red Oak, Texas, in May 1938.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Red Oak Creek, Ellis County, Texas, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1938
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-6a8028aaaa
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Source trail (2)
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- Submitted on Wednesday, July 17, 1996. Sighting at night by a group of coon hunters; Screams were also heard in the area
BFRO · 1996-07-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Second hand report of four coon hunters having encounter.
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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