Bigfoot · Bloomington, Indiana · 2006
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 2006to the year
- Where
- Bloomington, Indianato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing a deep growl and howl resembling an ape, followed by branches snapping and a distressed animal noise, before the creature ran off through the woods.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 2006
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-d403d06c1d
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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.
- Possible encounter while backpacking in the Hoosier National Forest
BFRO · 2011-06-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
A match on the place name, not necessarily this case. Once you have borrowed a book, its link opens the search inside it on the place.
- Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, Joshua Blu Buhs (2009)
A historian's skeptical account of how the legend grew.
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More on this creature
- 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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