Bigfoot · Loomis, Washington · 1996
WA-1996ID case-b240c62e06First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- May 23, 1996to the day
- Where
- Loomis, Washingtonto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a bipedal, ape-faced creature with long arms and dark reddish-brown fur at Lake Chopaka around noon on May 23, 1996.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Loomis, Okanogan County, Washington, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- May 23, 1996
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-b240c62e06
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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.
- Daylight sighting by fisherman at Lake Chopaka
BFRO · 2006-12-16
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.