Bigfoot · Washington, District of Columbia · 1922

WA-1922ID case-f208db2fafFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 26, 2026

Creature: Bigfoot
When: Jun 1922to the month
Where: Washington, District of Columbiafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

Witness reports seeing four gorillas in a meadow, including a huge silver-backed male and two females, who displayed human-like faces and gait before moving away.

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Details

Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Washington, District of Columbia, 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: Jun 1922
Account: First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 26, 2026
Case id: case-f208db2faf

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Source trail (1)

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Image 19 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), June 18, 1922, (SUNDAY MORNING)
Newspaper · 1922-06-18
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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