Bigfoot · Desert Hot Springs, California · 1979
CA-1979ID case-a472ed4f7cFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- May 1979to the month
- Where
- Desert Hot Springs, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a huge light tan colored biped with soft blowing hair in the northern desert above Palm Springs, CA., which froze when illuminated by headlights before retreating into the dark.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County, California, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- May 1979
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-a472ed4f7c
Place lookups use data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Nominatim. All credits
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.
- Sighting off Indian Road behind isolated (at the time) Desert Hot Springs Condo complex
BFRO · 2008-10-23
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.