Bigfoot · Salem County, New Jersey · 1927
NJ-1927ID case-8e6b55e46bAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1927to the year
- Where
- Salem County, New Jerseyto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Sheriff [name] and his posse searched for a long-haired, bearded individual suspected to be the Wild Man but found no traces.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Salem County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1927
- 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 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-8e6b55e46b
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Source trail (2)
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- Bigfoot vs. The Jersey Devil
Reddit · 2025-02-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Bigfoot vs. The Jersey Devil
Reddit · 2025-02-24
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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