Bigfoot · Rodney, Mississippi · 1838

MS-1838ID case-6a8d670ea7Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026

The account

A sixteen-year-old boy reports seeing a hairy, erect creature whistling like a person in the back woods near the New York State Line.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built

Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Rodney, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 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: Sep 1838
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 8, 2026
Case id: case-6a8d670ea7

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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 1 of Southern telegraph (Rodney, Miss.), September 5, 1838
Newspaper · 1838-09-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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