Bigfoot · Quitman, Mississippi · 1987
MS-1987ID case-9c0fe616abFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 10, 1987to the day
- Where
- Quitman, Mississippito town level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a tall, reddish-brown furred creature walking upright across highway 512 near Elwood in 1987.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 10, 1987
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-9c0fe616ab
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- Night time sighting by motorists on Highway 512 near Elwood (driver's observation)
BFRO · 2006-02-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Night time sighting by motorists on Highway 512 near Elwood (passenger's observation)
BFRO · 2006-03-18
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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