Bigfoot · Washington, District of Columbia · 1947
WA-1947ID case-e412883c6aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Dec 1947to the month
- Where
- Washington, District of Columbiato town level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator claims to have seen a huge, hair-covered creature with four long legs and large blunt teeth walking down New Hampshire Avenue in Washington.
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
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1947
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-e412883c6a
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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.
- Image 14 of Gadsden County times (Quincy, Fla.), January 22, 1948, (Florida Feature Section)
Newspaper · 1948-01-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 6 of Union County times (Lake Butler, Fla.), January 23, 1948
Newspaper · 1948-01-23
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.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.