Bigfoot · LaRue, Texas · 1998
TX-1998ID case-88d01699e7Added to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Apr 1998to the month
- Where
- LaRue, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports his wife and son saw a tall, hairy, upright-walking creature with red eyes crossing a road near LaRue, Texas.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- LaRue, Henderson County, Texas, 75770, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 1998
- 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-88d01699e7
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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.
- Mother and son have night time encounter on county road.
BFRO · 2004-12-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Mother and son report seeing a large upright figure walk across highway in front of their van.
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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