Case file · Cryptid
Bigfoot (Sasquatch)
A large hairy humanoid said to roam North American forests, especially the Pacific Northwest; the name Bigfoot dates to giant footprints found in Humboldt County, California, in 1958.
1958 CE · 40.93, -123.62 · status: claim
The account
Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew found 16-inch prints in the Six Rivers National Forest and appeared with a plaster cast in the local paper on 6 October 1958. Bigfoot features in American and Canadian folklore and has a large modern subculture.
The sceptical view
In 2002 the family of Crew's late co-worker Ray Wallace revealed carved wooden feet in his basement. Scientists regard the evidence as folklore, misidentification and hoax.
Connections in the atlas
- Hairy Man pictographs (Mayak datat)
- Sanderson’s Bigfoot article in True
- Sasquatch / Bigfoot
- 'Jacko', the Yale wild boy
- Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?
- William Roe's Mica Mountain sighting
- The Bluff Creek footprints
- The Bauman story (Theodore Roosevelt)
- Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America
- Mogollon Monster
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life
- The Collings Mountain Bigfoot trap