Bigfoot · Trinity County, California · 2001
CA-2001ID case-ea25f04bbaFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Aug 9, 2001to the day
- Where
- Trinity County, Californiato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports finding large footprints with moisture and visible digits in the Salmon Riverbed.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Trinity County, California, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 9, 2001
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-ea25f04bba
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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.
- Young man has three different footprint observations and one short encounter with a large black creature over a three-month period
BFRO · 2001-08-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
A match on the place name, not necessarily this case. Once you have borrowed a book, its link opens the search inside it on the place.
- Bigfoot Casebook Updated: Sightings and Encounters from 1818 to 2004, Janet and Colin Bord (2006)
Dated case list from the early 1800s on.
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More on this creature
- 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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