Bigfoot sightings map
Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is the name given to a large, hair-covered, upright, ape-like figure that people report seeing, hearing or finding tracks of, mostly in North America. No such animal has been confirmed by science. This page is about the reports.
Other names in the sources: Sasquatch, Skunk ape, Grassman, Wood booger, Wild man.
Background reading on Wikipedia: Bigfoot Skunk ape.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
By the numbers
13,583 cases on the map, 9,720 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.
Best-documented cases
Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.
Bigfoot · Bluff Creek, California · 1967
Witnesses report that Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin spotted a bigfoot drinking from a creek in Bluff Creek, California, which then retreated into the woods while Patterson filmed it.
Bigfoot · Harleton, Texas · 2003
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy creature standing near her dog kennels at night, which later walked into the woods while she and her mother watched.
Bigfoot · Klamath, California · 2003
A driver reports hearing a scream beside his open window and seeing a gorilla-like figure estimated at seven feet tall with dark matted hair before it disappeared into the redwoods.
Bigfoot · Loomis, Washington · 1996
Witness reports that a friend saw a Bigfoot on a hillside, which then stood up and stared at the group before darting into the woods while being filmed.
Bigfoot · Sam Houston National Forest, Texas · 2005
Witness reports seeing a large, dark, upright creature with noticeable hair and a domed head walking in the road before disappearing into the woods.
Bigfoot · Maud, Texas · 1986
Witness reports that his nephew encountered a large, hairy humanoid creature while deer hunting near Wright-Patman Lake in November 1986.
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 - Bigfoot Casebook Updated: Sightings and Encounters from 1818 to 2004, Janet and Colin Bord (2006)
Dated case list from the early 1800s on.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Field Guide to the Sasquatch, David George Gordon (1992)
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, Jeff Meldrum (2006)
A scientist's case for the evidence.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence, Grover S. Krantz (1999)
The anthropologist's evidence review.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, Joshua Blu Buhs (2009)
A historian's skeptical account of how the legend grew.
Borrow on Internet Archive - The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story, Greg Long (2004)
A skeptical investigation of the Patterson film and its aftermath.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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.