Bigfoot reports in New Mexico
78 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 · New Mexico
The narrator reports a teenage encounter in South Central New Mexico where they heard a creature and felt fear, noting that their mother also saw two Bigfoots and their grandfather saw one Mugg on…
Bigfoot · Thoreau, New Mexico · 2011
Witness reports seeing a tall, ape-like figure crossing Highway 612 near Bluewater while driving home from Gallup.
Bigfoot · San Juan River, New Mexico
The witness reports seeing a dark, muscular figure over 10 feet tall sitting on the bank of the San Juan River before it ran away.
Bigfoot · San Antonio, New Mexico · 1986
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy bigfoot running across the highway at night before it disappeared into an embankment.
Bigfoot · Otero County, New Mexico · 2004
Witness reports hearing screams and barking dogs before seeing a tall, hairy humanoid standing outside their window and later walking away with stolen deer jerky.
Bigfoot · Mescalero, New Mexico · 2004
Witness reports seeing a big, tall, hairy creature with red eyes while looking out the back window at around 5:00 AM.
Bigfoot · Taos, New Mexico · 2006
Witness reports hearing a strange scream/howl and his friend hearing sticks being hit together in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
Bigfoot · Dry Cimarron River, New Mexico · 2015
Witness reports seeing a still, statue-like creature standing behind a dead cottonwood tree near the Cimarron River that vanished without movement.
Bigfoot · Chama, New Mexico · 2020
Witness reports hearing loud, hollow knocking sounds that responded to their presence while hiking along the Rio Chama during lockdown.
Bigfoot · Dulce, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports hearing a scream lasting about 15 seconds near the Navajo River area in Dulce, New Mexico, during an eerily quiet early morning.
Bigfoot · Sanostee, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports hearing two clear wood knocks towards the north of their tent while camping in the Chuska Mountains.
Bigfoot · Cuba, New Mexico · 1998
Witness reports hearing a loud, low growl during an elk hunt in September 1998 that sounded human and powerful.
Bigfoot · San Juan County, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports hearing bipedal footsteps and scratching sounds near their tent at night, followed by the discovery of a large footprint and bent trees in the morning.
Bigfoot · San Juan County, New Mexico · 2002
Witness reports seeing a tall, skinny, gray humanoid creature near an old sheep corral at dusk while scouting the San Juan River.
Bigfoot · Borrego Pass, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal animal walking across the highway at night near Crownpoint, NM.
Bigfoot · Lindrith, New Mexico · 1982
Witness reports hearing violent knocks on a camper and subsequent screaming/moaning vocalizations from an unknown source in the mountains, which they later compared to Bigfoot recordings.
Bigfoot · Mescalero, New Mexico · 1987
Witness and a cousin heard high-pitched screams and noises following them along a tree line while walking to hitchhike near Mescalero.
Bigfoot · Red River, New Mexico · 2009
Witness reports seeing a large shadow resembling a humanoid figure in the window of their travel trailer near the Red River, followed by finding large tracks in the gravel.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2004
Witness reports seeing a large bipedal creature running around their truck in the moonlight while working at water pits.
Bigfoot · Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico · 1998
Witness reports being pelted by softball-sized rocks thrown with extraordinary force from the trees while hunting in a forest, concluding it was likely a Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Red River, New Mexico · 2000
A professor and his students observed a series of large, bipedal tracks crossing a high mountain trail near Middle Fork Lake.
Bigfoot · Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Witness reports a large Bigfoot grabbing a turkey while hunting and running off with it.
Bigfoot · McKinley County, New Mexico · 2002
Witness reports seeing a 7-foot tall, shiny brown hairy humanoid with a monkey-like face and nubbed limbs cross a dirt road at night.
Bigfoot · Mescalero, New Mexico · 2008
Witness reports seeing a dark figure at the window and hearing heavy breathing, followed by discovering large footprints in the snow the next morning.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports seeing a tall, muscular, hairy humanoid blocking its eyes from work lights before screaming and running away.
Bigfoot · Ruidoso, New Mexico · 2004
Witness reports feeling watched by a creature that shook brush and trees, then heard a guttural moan while paralleling him down the river.
Bigfoot · McKinley County, New Mexico · 2011
Witness reports seeing a large bipedal figure standing by a pond in the Chuska Mountains before it ran away into the trees.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
Witness and girlfriend report hearing a rumble and feeling their trailer bump as if hit by a car.
Bigfoot · Jemez Mountains Historical Marker, New Mexico · 2010
Witness reports hearing noises, footsteps, and grunts outside his Hummer at night, including the sound of a canopy being knocked over.
Bigfoot · Jemez Mountains Historical Marker, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports hearing a distinct return call to blasts and later sounds of something walking in the woods near camp.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2005
Witnesses heard variable whistling noises and heavy footsteps outside their tent.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2005
Witnesses heard faint, womanish shrieks in response to a sequence of sounds made by drivers.
Bigfoot · Piñon, New Mexico · 1976
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy, muscular humanoid creature walking in a meadow while deer hunting.
Bigfoot · Las Vegas, New Mexico · 2013
Witness reports seeing an enormous, dark brown, 8-10 foot tall hairy creature with massive hands and a heavy gait behind a gas station in Las Vegas, NM.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 1983
Witness reports waking up to a massive hairy arm reaching into their tent and seeing two eight-foot tall figures outside before they ran away.
Bigfoot · Crystal, New Mexico · 2002
Witness reports seeing a huge, hairy humanoid resembling a man with grey/dark brown and white hair near Crystal, NM.
Bigfoot · Ruidoso, New Mexico · 2004
Witness and two companions observed large footprints in fresh snow along a trail but dismissed them as fabricated.
Bigfoot · Jemez Mountains Historical Marker, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports hearing a strange yowling among coyote sounds that sounded like a human or an ape.
Bigfoot · Otero County, New Mexico · 2004
Witness reports a tall creature walking on a trail and later reaching through a window to steal food.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2005
Witnesses found freshly overturned aspen trees and cow bones in the area where they believed something had paralleled them through the woods.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports hearing distinct low-pitched growls and seeing movement in the brush while stopped near a blasting site.
Bigfoot · San Juan County, New Mexico · 2003
Witness and their mother observed a tall, reddish-brown humanoid with long hairy arms standing near pine trees before it ran into the forest.
Bigfoot · Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · 2005
Witnesses found more possible tracks and brush structures on the hillside where whistles had been heard.
Bigfoot · Toadlena, New Mexico · 1980
Witness reports seeing a grayish-brown, manlike creature kneeling at a well near their cabin, which the family identified as Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Crystal, New Mexico · 2009
Witness reports seeing a large, blackish-brown, bipedal creature running up a hill near Narbona Pass.
Bigfoot · Raton, New Mexico · 2005
Witness reports seeing a 6 ft plus creature running across the road at night on I-25 near Raton Pass.
Bigfoot · New Mexico
The witness reports seeing the backside of a huge Sasquatch with shiny black hair in Little Dog Canyon and hearing it kick shell rock as it climbed.
Bigfoot · New Mexico
The witness reports following a Sasquatch up a canyon and seeing its tracks, noting how fast it climbed the mountain side.
Bigfoot · New Mexico · 1998
Witness retrospectively identifies tree twists found after the hunt as sasquatch territory markings.
Bigfoot · New Mexico · 1986
Witness and girlfriend report seeing a Bigfoot run across the road in front of their car.
Bigfoot · New Mexico · 1998
Witness claims the growl heard in 1998 was not a bear or big cat but something real and human-like.
Bigfoot · Mescalero, New Mexico · 2000
Witness reports hearing loud screaming or screeching sounds and observing dogs howling while getting home late on July 29, 2000.
Bigfoot · Mescalero, New Mexico · 1997
Witness reports two sisters saw a tall, hairy figure with red eyes and long arms by the side of a road in March 1997.
Bigfoot · Gila Wilderness, New Mexico · 2026
Witness reports returning to the area across from the previous encounter site with his brother and another person, feeling cautious due to prior events.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
Witness's brother-in-law reports a bigfoot following him home and standing 10 feet away after he entered his house.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
Witness's mother-in-law reports seeing two sets of tracks, one very large, in the snow near her house.
Bigfoot · Las Cruces, New Mexico · 2001
Witness reports that her son saw an 8-foot tall humanoid figure while camping in New Mexico, followed by a large growl heard by him and his nephew.
Bigfoot · Otero County, New Mexico
Witness's sister reported hearing something by the window and looking at it while sitting near an open window.
Bigfoot · Berlin Tank, New Mexico
A buddy reports seeing a tall bipedal creature resembling a sage bush on a dump road near Berlin, which stood up and walked away.
Bigfoot · San Juan County, New Mexico · 1980s
Witness reports a large, black, bipedal creature with a putrid stench and human-like hand attempted to enter a cabin through an unlocked door before running away in the moonlight.
Bigfoot · San Juan County, New Mexico · 1996
Witness reports a large brownish-red hairy creature that stinks and makes awful noises, seen by locals and the sheriff along the San Juan River and Navajo Reservation.
Bigfoot · Otero County, New Mexico
Witness's cousin reported seeing something run across the road and heard it rushing through the brush towards a creek.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
Witness reports a tall bipedal creature with sage-bush-colored hair that walked away from them on an old dump road.
Bigfoot · Navajo, New Mexico · 1979
Grandmother describes a big man taking a sheep out of a corral by stepping over the fence.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
A state trooper reports seeing the creature crossing the road near a building on the reservation.
Bigfoot · Pecos River, New Mexico · 2000
Two rabbit hunters report seeing a large, upright, hairy creature that jumped a fence near the Pecos River.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
Three witnesses report seeing a tall hairy creature eating out of dumpsters at night on the reservation.
Bigfoot · Dulce, New Mexico
A source from Hunt for Skinwalker reports that security personnel at a deep underground military base in Dulce saw bipedal creatures described as dog men or Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Cloudcroft, New Mexico · 1995
Witness reports that he and his friend [name] heard a screaming sound with grunts approaching their campsite in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, which they initially mistook for an animal before the camp…
Bigfoot · Dulce, New Mexico
Narrator recounts [name]'s story of seeing a large bipedal hairy creature that mimicked a baby's cry.
Bigfoot · Mescalero, New Mexico · 2000
Witness reports that their mother saw a dark figure walking up the road while looking out her window.
Bigfoot · Los Alamos County, New Mexico · 2010
Witness reports that his friend and the friend's uncle [name] heard a huge shrieking sound and saw an upright walking being on a ridge during a camping trip in the Jemez Mountains.
Bigfoot · Catron County, New Mexico · 2024
Witness reports that he and his son observed a hairy creature resembling a stump in a meadow, later finding a footprint at the exact location.
Bigfoot · Otero County, New Mexico
Witness's aunt reported seeing a huge creature with long arms and legs laying by the road near their house.
Bigfoot · Taos County, New Mexico · 2011
Witness reports that their parents saw a tall, black, human-like creature walking across Road 285 at night.
Bigfoot · Lincoln County, New Mexico
Some people report seeing the creature crossing in front of cars or causing an awful stench that frightens dogs.
Bigfoot · New Mexico
Witness reports three large creatures with skin that looked like stone which went into the ground.
Bigfoot · New Mexico
A gentleman reports seeing a creature on all fours in the middle of the road that whistled to alert others.