Bigfoot · Chatsworth, New Jersey · 1952
NJ-1952ID case-fa38b1a69aAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 1952to the month
- Where
- Chatsworth, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a group of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts camping near Cedar Lake were disturbed by thrashing bushes, tree knocking, and loud whistling sounds throughout the night, which they attribute to bigfoot.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Chatsworth, Woodland Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, 08019, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1952
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-fa38b1a69a
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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.
- Memory told of a possible encounter while camping with Girl Scouts in the Pine Barrens
BFRO · 2014-06-29
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.