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Bigfoot (Sasquatch)

Sasquatch – from the Halkomelem language – is a figure from the beliefs of the peoples of the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. The name Bigfoot appeared in 1958 after huge footprints were found in California. The most famous “evidence” is the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film. Despite thousands of reports, no bones or body have ever been found, and some tracks turned out to be made with carved wooden feet.

cases
5
years
1924–1971

Unexplained: 1 Disputed: 3 Hoax: 1

  1. 1920–1929

    1. 1924 Bigfoot (Sasquatch) · Unexplained Albert Ostman's Sasquatch Abduction Near Toba Inlet, British Columbia, Canada A Canadian gold prospector claimed a family of sasquatches carried him off in his sleeping bag and held him for six days – he told the story only 33 years later.
    2. 1924 Bigfoot (Sasquatch) · Disputed The Ape Canyon Incident Ape Canyon, slope of Mount St. Helens, Washington, United States A group of gold prospectors claimed that huge “apemen” pelted their cabin with boulders at night – earlier, one of them had shot a creature above a cliff.

  2. 1950–1959

    1. 1958 Bigfoot (Sasquatch) · Hoax The Bluff Creek Bigfoot Tracks Bluff Creek, Humboldt County, California, United States A bulldozer operator building a logging road found giant footprints – a newspaper called their maker Bigfoot, and so the name was born.

  3. 1960–1969

    1. 1967 Bigfoot (Sasquatch) · Disputed Patterson–Gimlin Film Bluff Creek, California, United States Two horsemen in northern California filmed a large, hairy figure walking along a creek – the most famous and most analyzed Bigfoot footage.

  4. 1970–1979

    1. 1971 Bigfoot (Sasquatch) · Disputed The Fouke Monster Attacks the Ford Home Fouke, Miller County, Arkansas, United States An Arkansas couple said a huge, hairy creature reached through their window – shot at, it vanished into the dark, and the nation heard of the “Fouke Monster.”