Bigfoot · Tyler, Texas · 2003
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 2003to the year
- Where
- Tyler, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that his son and a friend heard loud footsteps keeping pace with their 4-wheeler and saw trees moving during an incident in summer or fall 2003.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Tyler, Smith County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 2003
- 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 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-ac8a82ec17
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Teenager hears vocalization at night and has possible sighting not far from Sabine River.
BFRO · 2004-01-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Encounters not far from Sabine River.
NAWAC
Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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More on this creature
- 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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