Bigfoot · Bluff Creek, California · 1967
CA-1967ID case-cbc6650f65Added to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 20, 1967to the day
- Where
- Bluff Creek, Californiato approximate level
- Reports
- 5 documents4 independent
The account
Witnesses report that Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin spotted a bigfoot drinking from a creek in Bluff Creek, California, which then retreated into the woods while Patterson filmed it.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Bluff Creek, Del Norte County, California, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 20, 1967
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 4 independent sources (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-cbc6650f65
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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.
- Submitted on Thursday, January 1, 1998. Two men on horseback film a bigfoot as it retreats out of the creek bed and into the woods. The footage is referred to as the Patterson-Gimlin footage, named after the two men who obtained it
BFRO · 1998-01-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - I am analyzing the 5 most realistic Bigfoot videos in history.
Reddit · 2025-09-07 - I am analyzing the 5 most realistic Bigfoot videos in history
Reddit · 2025-09-07
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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.
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