Bigfoot · Floodwood, Minnesota · 1997
MN-1997ID case-7e5a44b67fFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 1997to the month
- Where
- Floodwood, Minnesotato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
A deer hunter in St. Louis County, Minnesota, reported seeing a dark, hairy, upright figure that howled at him before fleeing into a cedar swamp.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Floodwood, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, 55736, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 1997
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-7e5a44b67f
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Source trail (2)
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.
- Hunter's sighting near gravel pits outside Floodwood
BFRO · 2019-02-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - 1997 Bigfoot report near Floodwood, St. Louis County, Minnesota: a deer hunter reported an upright figure and howls. “One Bigfoot Report Fro
TikTok · 2026-10-11
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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