Bigfoot reports from the 1840s
1 case, 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 · Phillip Island, Victoria · 1849
Witnesses report seeing a large half-man, half-baboon creature sitting by a lake before it sprang into the water when shot at.