Bigfoot · Seattle, Washington · 1924
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 31, 1924to the day
- Where
- Seattle, Washingtonfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a hairy giant accosted John Mulligan at Fifth ave and Madison st., threatened him, punched him in the jaw, and then disappeared.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Oct 31, 1924
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-ead11ae455
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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 Seattle star (Seattle, Wash.), October 31, 1924
Newspaper · 1924-10-31
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.
- Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence, Grover S. Krantz (1999)
The anthropologist's evidence review.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Field Guide to the Sasquatch, David George Gordon (1992)
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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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