Bigfoot · Washington, District of Columbia · 1929

WA-1929ID case-76b6f90280First-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 26, 2026

Creature: Bigfoot
When: Nov 1929to the month
Where: Washington, District of Columbiafallback location
Reports: 5 documents1 independent

The account

The narrator reports encountering gorillas in Africa, noting their tracks, hearing their cries, and eventually facing an immense male gorilla that stood erect and beat its breast.

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Details

Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Washington, District of Columbia, 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: Nov 1929
Account: First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by: 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 26, 2026
Case id: case-76b6f90280

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Source trail (1)

Down the rabbit hole → 5 documents, and how they connect

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Image 53 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 14, 1929
Newspaper · 1929-11-14
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