Bigfoot · Suffolk County, New York · 1886
NY-1886ID case-e7c9c402e8Added to map Oct 25, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 1886to the month
- Where
- Suffolk County, New Yorkto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Hunter Jerry Woodchuck claims he encountered a nine-foot tall gorilla in Nassakeag Swamp that pounded its chest.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Suffolk County, New York, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Nov 1886
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 25, 2026
- Case id
- case-e7c9c402e8
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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.
- Image 1 of The Stark County Democrat (Canton, Ohio), November 4, 1886
Newspaper · 1886-11-04
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.