Bigfoot reports from the 1920s
24 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 · Pocahontas County, West Virginia · 1920
A strange beast similar to the one on Flat Mountain was reported roaming in Pocahontas County but was neither killed nor captured.
Bigfoot · Salem County, New Jersey · 1927
[name] reported that a big, hairy man without clothes jumped from the trees, slashed his bicycle tires, and chased him.
Bigfoot · Salem County, New Jersey · 1927
Sheriff [name] and his posse searched for a long-haired, bearded individual suspected to be the Wild Man but found no traces.
Bigfoot · Tuckahoe River, New Jersey · 1927
[name] saw a strange man on his farm who had previously been seen by state police.
Bigfoot · Washington, District of Columbia · 1929
The narrator reports encountering gorillas in Africa, noting their tracks, hearing their cries, and eventually facing an immense male gorilla that stood erect and beat its breast.
Bigfoot · Washington, District of Columbia · 1922
Witness reports seeing four gorillas in a meadow, including a huge silver-backed male and two females, who displayed human-like faces and gait before moving away.
Bigfoot · Bella Coola, British Columbia · 1928
A bigfoot was shot above South Bentinck Inlet.
Bigfoot · Mount Saint Helens, Washington · 1924
Miners shot at attacking bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Terre Haute, Indiana · 1927
Witnesses report that a mysterious figure described as the 'panther man' attacked four young women in Terre Haute, leaping upon them and fleeing when residents arrived.
Bigfoot · Walden, Colorado · 1926
Witness reports her father observed two large, brown, bipedal creatures stalking an elk in a valley near Walden, Colorado.
Bigfoot · Payson, Arizona · 1920
A miner encountered two Bigfoot creatures, described as an adult male and female, blocking a trail in the Mazatzal wilderness.
Bigfoot · Skamania County, Washington · 1924
Five miners reported being attacked by hairy giants that hurled boulders at their cabin near Spirit Lake in 1924.
Bigfoot · Pittman Flats, Alaska · 1923
Witness reports that J. E. Wilson found tracks and saw a gigantic animal near his cabin in the Pittman district.
Bigfoot · Bordelonville, Louisiana · 1925
Witness reports that her grandfather and his brother encountered a large, furry creature with red eyes while hunting near Horseshoe Lake in 1925.
Bigfoot · Bollinger County, Missouri · 1920s
Witness reports that his great grandfather encountered a large, bipedal, furry creature in Bollinger County, Missouri, which mimicked his footsteps before he realized it was likely Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · McCurtain County, Oklahoma · 1920s
Witness relays an account of a logger who shot a 'booger' stealing food from his tent, only to be killed by the creature's kin the next day.
Bigfoot · Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana · 1921
Hunters killed a bigfoot and dumped it in a well.
Bigfoot · Attala County, Mississippi · 1920s
Witness reports that their great grandfather and another man were frightened by something in the woods after WWI, causing them to quit logging.
Bigfoot · Agassiz, British Columbia · 1927
Mr. [name] recounts seeing a naked hairy giant on railroad tracks near Agassiz in September 1927, who was twice as big as an average man with long hands.
Bigfoot · 1929
Witness reports a lady and her daughter saw a creature with a stick kneeling down poking wild ladies, which then circled their cabin beating on the wall.
Bigfoot · British Columbia, Canada · 1924
Witness reports an old Indian told him that a white man who found gold in a lost mine at the head of Toba Inlet was killed by a Sasquatch.
Bigfoot · 1924
[name] reportedly saw a photograph of an upright gorilla taken in the Rocky Mountains in 1924.
Bigfoot · Seattle, Washington · 1925
The narrator encounters a monstrous, ungainly creature with an arched back and angular fringes that shakes the ground.
Bigfoot · Seattle, Washington · 1924
Witness reports a hairy giant accosted John Mulligan at Fifth ave and Madison st., threatened him, punched him in the jaw, and then disappeared.