Bigfoot · 1940s
XX-1940ID case-d8f741fa4cAdded to map Oct 28, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- the 1940sto the decade
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator's grandmother recounts that the narrator's uncle [name] encountered a tangible Bigfoot-like creature known as a 'booger' on ancestral property in the 1940s.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Bigfoot reports with no place (3,703) - When
- the 1940s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 28, 2026
- Case id
- case-d8f741fa4c
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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.
- You Kids Ran Into a Booger, Didn’t You? - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 170
YouTube · 2025-04-12
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.