Yeti sightings map
"Yeti" and "Abominable Snowman" name an ape-like figure reported in snowy mountain country, mainly Asia. Reports of related wild-man figures under other names are filed here too. We keep it separate from Bigfoot because the reports come from different places and traditions; whether they are related is not something this map claims.
Other names in the sources: Abominable Snowman, Yeren, Almas.
Background reading on Wikipedia: Yeti Yeren Almas (cryptozoology).
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.
By the numbers
86 cases on the map, 13 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.
Best-documented cases
Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.
Yeti · Barun Khola, बागमती प्रदेश · 1972
[name] reports that he and two Sherpa assistants discovered large, bipedal footprints in firm snow near their camp on a high alpine ridge in Nepal, which the Sherpas identified as Yeti prints.
Yeti · कोशी प्रदेश, नेपाल
Witness reports hearing a large animal scampering down a rock corridor and later discovering two sets of tracks heading south from their campsite.
Yeti · Foxborough, Massachusetts · 1965
About five boys and girls reported seeing a creature with long arms hanging below its knees walking rapidly through the woods near the town line.
Yeti · Foxborough, Massachusetts · 1965
Two other children reported seeing the same creature on August 18, with reports consistent with those from August 19.
Yeti · Foxborough, Massachusetts · 1965
Chief [name] received numerous reports from local youths about a huge white creature with long arms and giant steps in the Foxboro woods.
Yeti · Pamir Mountains · 1957
Soviet scientist A. O. Pronin reports seeing a manlike, reddish-gray woolly creature walking on two feet in the Pamir Mountains.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.