Bigfoot · Alberta, Canada · 1972
AB-1972ID case-92e734b9bcAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1972to the year
- Where
- Alberta, Canadato state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that his cousin followed hundreds of large footprints for two miles up river banks and into the bush in northern Alberta around 1972.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Alberta, Canada
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- 1972
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-92e734b9bc
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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.
- Hundreds of tracks found near Peace River
BFRO · 1998-07-10
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.