Bigfoot · Forest of Alyth, Alba / Scotland · 2016
UNI-2016ID case-e71764e0b9Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jul 31, 2016to the day
- Where
- Forest of Alyth, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The blogger's wife reports seeing a tall, wide, black shadow-like creature that leaped quickly into the woods near Alyth.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Forest of Alyth, Perth and Kinross, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 31, 2016
- 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
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-e71764e0b9
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Source trail (2)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Black Leaping Creature Alyth 31/7/2016
ukwildman · 2017-01-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Cryptid Creatures, Tales from the East Coast of Scotland.
ukwildman · 2020-06-12
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
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