Bigfoot · Spring Creek, Missouri · 1865
MO-1865ID case-c4abe86058Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1865to the year
- Where
- Spring Creek, Missourito approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a giant hairy figure was seen by rifleman Blue Sol Collins in 1865 and later by many others in Douglas County.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Spring Creek, Douglas County, Missouri, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1865
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-c4abe86058
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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.
- Image 8 of The Sunday telegram (Clarksburg, W. Va.), August 1, 1915
Newspaper · 1915-08-01
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.