Yeti · Foxborough, Massachusetts · 1965
MA-1965ID case-e4991beb3eAdded to map Oct 23, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Aug 19, 1965to the day
- Where
- Foxborough, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
About five boys and girls reported seeing a creature with long arms hanging below its knees walking rapidly through the woods near the town line.
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Foxborough, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 02035, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 19, 1965
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 23, 2026
- Case id
- case-e4991beb3e
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- The Foxboro Yeti
Reddit · 2026-10-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The Foxboro Yeti
Reddit · 2026-10-23
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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