Bigfoot · Sumter, South Carolina · 2004
SC-2004ID case-f098468ac4First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jan 2004to the month
- Where
- Sumter, South Carolinato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness and their father heard strange noises in the woods, fired shots at an unseen creature that did not flee, and found large footprints and broken trees consistent with bigfoot sightings.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 2004
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-f098468ac4
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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.
- A family reports strange incidents in the woods behind their property near Shaw Air Force Base
BFRO · 2004-01-25
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.