Bigfoot · West Africa · 1919

WES-1919ID case-ffac46f5d5Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 26, 2026

The account

Prof. Garner claims to have found and killed a new species of ape in West Africa that is more human-like than known chimpanzees or gorillas.

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Creature: Bigfoot
Where: West Africa
mapped to country level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found).
When: Jun 1919
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 26, 2026
Case id: case-ffac46f5d5

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Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect

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Image 4 of The Pensacola journal (Pensacola, Fla.), June 21, 1919
Newspaper · 1919-06-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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