Bigfoot · Klamath, California · 2003
CA-2003ID case-eb51d571f4First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Sep 19, 2003to the day
- Where
- Klamath, Californiato approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
A driver reports hearing a scream beside his open window and seeing a gorilla-like figure estimated at seven feet tall with dark matted hair before it disappeared into the redwoods.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Klamath, Del Norte County, California, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 19, 2003
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-eb51d571f4
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
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- Fifty-four year old salesman has a very close highway encounter
BFRO · 2003-09-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - A reported 2003 Bigfoot encounter on Highway 101 north of Klamath, Del Norte County, California, began with a scream beside a driver’s open
TikTok · 2026-10-16 - A reported 2003 Bigfoot encounter on Highway 101 north of Klamath, Del Norte County, California, began with a scream beside a driver’s open
TikTok · 2026-10-16
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.