Bigfoot reports from the 1830s
2 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
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.

Bigfoot · Tennessee Kentucky Industrial Park, Tennessee · 1836
Witness reports that [name] encountered a red-haired hairy beast in 1836 which claimed to be of biblical descent.

Bigfoot · Rodney, Mississippi · 1838
A sixteen-year-old boy reports seeing a hairy, erect creature whistling like a person in the back woods near the New York State Line.