Bigfoot · Zulia, Venezuela
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Zulia, Venezuelato state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator's grandfather reports that his brother was attacked in the woods by a creature called Maramunta which pinned him down and licked his feet until they were bloody before being shot by the grandfather.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Zulia, Venezuela
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Date unknown
- 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 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-8937389448
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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.
- The Cryptid of the Sierra de Perijá (Venezuela): A True Oral Account from One of My Grandfathers
Reddit · 2026-09-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The Cryptid of the Sierra de Perijá (Venezuela): A True Oral Account from One of My Grandfathers
Reddit · 2026-09-27
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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