Bigfoot reports from the 1950s
79 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 · Mason County, Washington · 1957
Witness reports encountering a giant gorilla-like creature in the brush while hunting with a friend in Mason County, Washington.
Bigfoot · Gasconade County, Missouri · 1950s
Witness reports hearing hair-raising screams from a creature called 'panthercat' in the forest behind their house between 1950 and 1954.
Bigfoot · Longview, Washington · 1952
Witness reports seeing a large hair-covered man/ape drinking at a spring and another larger animal nearby before fleeing.
Bigfoot · Warfield, Kentucky · 1950
Witness reports seeing a tall, muscular, hairy humanoid holding a stick on a rock cliff in eastern Kentucky.
Bigfoot · Porterville, California · 1955
Witness reports seeing a seven to eight-foot tall creature with shaggy brown hair and glowing orange eyes while relieving himself during a Boy Scout camping trip.
Bigfoot · Aptos, California · 1958
Witness reports seeing a dark brown, man-shaped figure over six feet tall running downhill on a fire road in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Bigfoot · Tebbetts, Missouri · 1959
Witness reports their car was shaken by a large, fast-moving creature that approached within inches of the window before fleeing into the woods.
Bigfoot · Yuba County, California · 1959
Witness reports hearing a loud scream and seeing an ape-faced creature on two feet that attacked his friend's dogs in the woods near Marysville, California.
Bigfoot · Truckee, California · 1956
Witness reports seeing a tall, sandy brown apelike creature walking down a ridge near Donner Lake while deer hunting.
Bigfoot · Aliceville, Alabama · 1958
Witness reports seeing an eight-foot-tall, very dark-colored creature walking along a path in the woods near Aliceville.
Bigfoot · Gaylord, Michigan · 1950
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy, buff creature resembling an oversized monkey near his outhouse in the morning, followed by family hearing screams later that night.
Bigfoot · East Peoria, Illinois · 1957
Witness reports seeing a black hairy figure about 8 feet tall walking around a stick hut in Farmdale Park while hunting.
Bigfoot · Holden Village, Washington · 1953
Witness reports seeing a man in a fur coat walking along Miners' Creek in Holden, Washington, in 1953.
Bigfoot · Adario, Ohio · 1958
Witness reports seeing a seven-foot tall, hairy humanoid creature while checking trap lines near Adario, Ohio in 1958.
Bigfoot · Tampa, Florida · 1955
Witness reports seeing a large hairy creature resembling Bigfoot near the Hillsborough River in Tampa during the mid-1950s.
Bigfoot · Valentine, Nebraska · 1957
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy, erect ape-like creature making loud noises in an alley while playing hide and seek.
Bigfoot · Harriettsville, Ohio · 1958
Witnesses report finding large, barefoot human-like tracks with a long stride on their farm near Wayne National Forest, ruling out bears.
Bigfoot · Washington County, Missouri · 1956
Witness reports encountering a huge, hairy man-like creature in an old corn crib while playing hide-and-seek.
Bigfoot · Ocean Shores, Washington · 1959
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy creature with human-like hands and a dark tan face while picking blackberries in Ocean Shores, Washington, and holding its hand.
Bigfoot · Cary, Kentucky · 1950
Witness reports seeing an ape-like creature at a coal mine with a neighbor boy.
Bigfoot · Van Lear, Kentucky · 1951
Witness reports seeing a 9-10 foot tall, copper-haired humanoid with big round brown eyes under their back lawn.
Bigfoot · Ocean Shores, Washington · 1959
A six-year-old witness reports seeing and holding hands with a large, hairy, bipedal creature while picking blackberries in Ocean Shores, Washington.
Bigfoot · San Bernardino County, California · 1950
Witness reports hearing noises and seeing a muscular hairy man-like creature near Lytle Creek before finding footprints later.
Bigfoot · Liberty, Kentucky · 1953
Witness reports seeing a bigfoot digging with a stick and displaying teeth at close range while he and [name] were playing behind a house.
Bigfoot · Ojai, California · 1950
Witness reports seeing three Big Foots getting a drink near Sespy River in 1950.
Bigfoot · Graf, Iowa · 1959
Witness reports a mid-height gangly creature running across the road and later stalking the camp with loud screams and broken branches.
Bigfoot · Quantico, Virginia · 1957
A Marine stationed at a demonstration camp in Quantico reports seeing a 7-foot tall, hairy figure that resembled a bear but fled when he chambered a round.
Bigfoot · Lawrenceville, Illinois · 1953
Witness reports seeing a large creature with honey blonde hair and amber eyes at the window of their childhood home in George Field.
Bigfoot · Ridgefield, Connecticut · 1953
Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal creature with primate-like features walking along railroad tracks near Shelton, CT in 1953.
Bigfoot · Ocean Shores, Washington · 1959
Witness reports seeing a hairy hand and face of a large humanoid creature while picking blackberries in a patch behind a duplex.
Bigfoot · Eureka, California · 1957
Witness reports that three children encountered a large creature in the woods near Eureka, California, which followed them from across the road before disappearing.
Bigfoot · Macon, Georgia · 1956
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy, ape-like creature jogging on two legs near a gulley in Macon, Georgia, during the summer of 1956-57.
Bigfoot · Alaska · 1955
Witness reports seeing a large, manlike ape with off-white hair standing still on a porch in Tanacross, Alaska, around 1955.
Bigfoot · British Columbia, Canada · 1955
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy, bipedal creature resembling a huge man on Mica Mountain in October 1955.
Bigfoot · Ontario, Canada · 1958
Witness reports finding large footprints with five toes in the snow while walking to an airport restaurant in Thunder Bay around 1958.
Bigfoot · Oklahoma · 1950
Witness reports observing a dead adolescent Bigfoot in their barn and playing doctor with it.
Bigfoot · 1950s
[name] reports his first Bigfoot sighting in Marion County and Mason County, Washington, around 1956 or 1957.
Bigfoot · 1950
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy man standing on a sandbar while camping with his parents in Northern California.
Bigfoot · 1950s
The speaker recalls seeing a hairy man on a beach around 1950 or 1951 when he was approximately ten years old.
Bigfoot · 1959
Witness reports making friends with a Bigfoot while picking blackberries in 1959, noting its ability to communicate and later finding large footprints.
Bigfoot · Attala County, Mississippi · 1950
Witness reports that their grandfather and father heard stories about a creature in the Burns Rebrake that drove lumbermen away and attacked dogs, which the narrator later identified as sounding like…
Bigfoot · Washington, District of Columbia · 1958
Sergt. George W. Combs and his girlfriend report a shiny black creature weighing about 200 pounds with long hair and blue eyes approached their car.
Bigfoot · Arlington, Washington · 1958
Witness reports that their deceased uncle and aunt found footprints in a barn lot leading to dense forest and plaster casts of tracks near a creek.
Bigfoot · Abbeville, Alabama · 1953
Witness reports that her aunt saw two young, hairy creatures resembling gorillas with human faces standing on a dirt road in Henry County, Alabama.
Bigfoot · Barbour County, Alabama · 1950s
Grandmother reports seeing a tall, hairy creature on her porch in the early 1950s that ran into the woods leaving strange footprints.
Bigfoot · Rural, Ohio · 1951
Witness reports a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped by Bigfoot in her bedroom and returned unharmed after her father shot the creature point-blank with a shotgun.
Bigfoot · Bluff Creek, California · 1958
Jerry Crew found a set of giant tracks on Bluff Creek.
Bigfoot · Lombard, Maryland · 1953
Witnesses report a large, erect, brownish creature with pink facial rings and monkey-like appearance was seen peering over a fence in Cecil County.
Bigfoot · Rock Creek Regional Park, Maryland · 1958
Arnold Pollock reports a hairy creature about 5 feet tall with white fangs rushed his car and beat on the side of it.
Bigfoot · Bovey, Minnesota · 1950
Witness reports her mother saw a tall, hairy humanoid creature in a blueberry patch that followed her home.
Bigfoot · South Fork Trinity River, California · 1950s
The logger's mother and grandmother claimed that sounds of 'people talking Chinese' at night were actually Bigfoot families digging up and eating roots.
Bigfoot · Gallia County, Ohio · 1950s
Witness's father reports investigating a sighting of a huge naked black man who killed a hog and left pubic hair for identification.
Bigfoot · Umatilla County, Oregon · 1950s
Witness reports their father heard something funny twice in the 1950s, once near Anthony Lakes area.
Bigfoot · Winamac, Indiana · 1953
Witness reports that in 1953, a group of girls and adults saw a seven-foot tall, hairy, bipedal creature near the woods behind their cabins.
Bigfoot · Graham County, Arizona · 1950
A rancher reports seeing a large, dark brown, upright, furry creature on horseback that ran uphill into a canyon.
Bigfoot · Prattsville, Ohio · 1956
Witness reports that his sister encountered a bigfoot in her childhood yard and later heard a roar in Zaleski State Forest, while other family members smelled a pungent odor on the farm.
Bigfoot · Lawrenceburg, Tennessee · 1955
Witness recounts her aunt throwing dishwater on 'Patty' at her back door and then giving him potatoes because he was hungry.
Bigfoot · Sandy, Oregon · 1953
A hunter killed a bigfoot in Alder Creek Canyon and buried it.
Bigfoot · Lemolo Lake, Oregon · 1956
Witness reports his father saw a large, dark-furred creature standing upright and staring at him near Lemolo Lake before running away.
Bigfoot · Willard, Washington · 1950
Witness reports her daughter and two other girls saw a figure watching them in the schoolyard which they identified as not being a bear due to its kind eyes.
Bigfoot · Mica Mountain, British Columbia · 1955
William Roe claims to have encountered a female Sasquatch on Mica Mountain.
Bigfoot · Angelina County, Texas · 1958
Grandfather reports hearing a blood curdling scream and finding a large limb pulled from an oak tree.
Bigfoot · Washtenaw County, Michigan · 1950s
Witness reports that hunters in the mid-to-late 1950s saw a large hairy animal walking upright in the woods off north and south M-17.
Bigfoot · Chatsworth, New Jersey · 1952
Witness reports that a group of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts camping near Cedar Lake were disturbed by thrashing bushes, tree knocking, and loud whistling sounds throughout the night, which they…
Bigfoot · Tuolumne County, California · 1950s
A family friend claims to have seen a bigfoot walking by his campsite at night in the 1950s.
Bigfoot · 1955
The father-in-law reports that he and three friends saw an eight-foot-tall big hairy creature on a mound while camping in the summer.
Bigfoot · 1951
Witness reports a large black-haired figure the height of 9ft walked across a logging camp, threw heavy diesel barrels aside, broke down a cookhouse door, and ransacked food stores before fleeing.
Bigfoot · 1950s
Witness reports a farmer heard a barn door slam and saw one creature with a four-foot-tall juvenile trailing behind it going down the hill.
Bigfoot · 1954
Witness reports a black-haired creature standing on two legs near a river made loud woop and holler sounds, causing crew members to flee while the creature pursued them through the brush.
Bigfoot · 1950
Witness reports that a photo of the 'Cobble Mountain Critter' was shown to him by a store owner in 1950.
Bigfoot · 1950s
Witness reports that Uncle [name] and [name] saw a tall, limb-grabbing creature at Anti Coca Swamp in Arkansas during the 1950s.
Bigfoot · 1950s
Witness's great aunt reports a big gray thing that ate out of her garden and was fought by locals.
Bigfoot · 1958
Jerry Crew reports finding a quarter mile of Bigfoot tracks on Bluff Creek Road and making casts in October 1958.
Bigfoot · 1958
[name] and [name] report seeing a Bigfoot cross a road and find tracks several miles south of where they are usually seen on Bluff Creek Road.
Bigfoot · 1950s
Witness reports that Uncle [name] and [name] saw a tall, hairy creature on a white sandbar in Cook Swamp during the 1950s.
Bigfoot · 1958
Mrs. [name] and several others report seeing Bigfoot tracks on Martin's Ferry Hill near Weitchpec in January 1958.
Bigfoot · बागमती प्रदेश, नेपाल · 1953
Witnesses report encountering a group of large upright monkeys with long tails and yellow eyes on a pass in Nepal.
Bigfoot · 1959
Bob Titmus reports finding more Bigfoot tracks at Bluff Creek Sandbar in November 1959.
Bigfoot · Louisiana · 1950s
Witness's uncle [name] reports seeing a giant hairy creature on a white sandbar in Anacoco Swamp that roared and climbed a bluff.