Bigfoot · Bellingham, Washington · 1975

WA-1975ID case-cf94e92f7eAdded to map Nov 10, 2026

The account

Police Sgt. [name] reports sighting a giant hairy creature called Sasquatch on the Lummi Indian reservation that ripped a storm door from its hinges.

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Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words
When: Oct 23, 1975
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Nov 10, 2026
Case id: case-cf94e92f7e

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Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.

Lompoc Record, 1975-11-14
newspaper_ia · 1975-11-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago, 1975-11-15
newspaper_ia · 1975-11-15

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