Yeti · Uttarakhand, India · 1986
IND-1986ID case-8b5b5471aaAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Mar 6, 1986to the day
- Where
- Uttarakhand, Indiato state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name] reports seeing a large, erect entity over 6 feet tall behind a bush after observing strange tracks and a groove in the snow.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Uttarakhand, India
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 6, 1986
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-8b5b5471aa
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Source trail (1)
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 ISC Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1986 (p. n0)
ISC Newsletter · 1986
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.