Bigfoot · Town of Whitehall, New York · 1976
NY-1976ID case-9bea47fe80Added to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Aug 1976to the month
- Where
- Town of Whitehall, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that police officer [name] saw a large, hairy figure near Whitehall in August 1976 which covered its face and made guttural sounds.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Town of Whitehall, Washington County, New York, 12887, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1976
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-9bea47fe80
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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.
- BIGFOOT IN EVERY COUNTY: WASHINGTON COUNTY, NEW YORK The [address removed] Bigfoot encounter near Whitehall, Washington County, New York: poli
TikTok · 2026-10-21
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.