Bigfoot · Benton Harbor, Michigan · 1976

MI-1976ID case-c407e23d88Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026

The account

Witnesses report that a hairy creature leaped from underbrush, shoved one woman down and grabbed another while they were hiking on a trail.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built

Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Benton Harbor, Berrien County, Michigan, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: May 22, 1976
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Nov 10, 2026
Case id: case-c407e23d88

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Down the rabbit hole → 4 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.

Benton Harbor Herald Palladium, 1976-05-24
newspaper_ia · 1976-05-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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