Bigfoot · Eureka, California · 1976
CA-1976ID case-e21b9a0c88Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- May 22, 1976to the day
- Where
- Eureka, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that a large, hairy creature, possibly Big Foot, leaped from underbrush and carried away a woman named [name] while they were hiking near Weitchpec and Orleans.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Eureka, Humboldt County, California, 95501, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- May 22, 1976
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-e21b9a0c88
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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.
- Benton Harbor Herald Palladium, 1976-05-24
newspaper_ia · 1976-05-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Sikeston Daily Standard, 1976-05-24
newspaper_ia · 1976-05-24 - Sikeston Daily Standard, 1976-05-24
newspaper_ia · 1976-05-24
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.