Bigfoot · Little Tennessee River, North Carolina · 2020
NC-2020ID case-f522b5a777First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jan 31, 2020to the day
- Where
- Little Tennessee River, North Carolinato approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses [name] and [name] report seeing a huge, hairy humanoid standing on the road and riverbank near Needmore Road in western NC.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Little Tennessee River, Swain County, North Carolina, 28702, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 31, 2020
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-f522b5a777
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Source trail (2)
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- YESTERDAY motorists in Smoky Mts. observe a Bigfoot along Little Tennessee River
BFRO · 2020-01-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Motorists in Smoky Mts. observe a Bigfoot along Little Tennessee River. 02/01/2020
ukwildman · 2020-06-27
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.
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