Bigfoot · Pineville, Louisiana · 1980
LA-1980ID case-fa1dcb7749First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 1980to the month
- Where
- Pineville, Louisianato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a face about 7ft up standing next to a broken tree after cattle panicked and finding reddish hair on a fence.
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1980
- 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-fa1dcb7749
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Witnesses saw Creature next to a Broken Tree
BFRO · 1999-06-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Firefighter Captain's experience as a young teen.
NAWAC
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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