Bigfoot · Lake Tahoe, California · 1979
CA-1979ID case-d414ac90d9Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- 1979to the year
- Where
- Lake Tahoe, Californiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports an Austrian mountain biker claimed he felt someone watching him and smelled something dead while riding on the Tahoe side of the mountain.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Lake Tahoe, Placer County, California, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1979
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-d414ac90d9
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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.
- Two Hikers Have Close Encounter Near Genoa
BFRO · 2003-02-25
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.