Bigfoot · Laurel, North Carolina · 1873
NC-1873ID case-8d9c29e5e2Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Feb 1873to the month
- Where
- Laurel, North Carolinato town level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
A gentleman from the Shelton Laurel District reports that Mr. [name] saw a huge black bear-like beast with a lion's mane and head, elk horns, and an ox-sized body in the jungle.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Laurel, Franklin County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 1873
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-8d9c29e5e2
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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.
- Image 1 of Knoxville daily chronicle (Knoxville, Tenn.), February 15, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-02-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The Camden journal (Camden, S.C.), March 13, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-03-13
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.