Bigfoot Sightings Map: 22 Maps of Sasquatch and Other Cryptids

People who map Bigfoot keep records like clerks. Pennsylvania’s map sorts its encounters into colour-coded eras, Canada’s holds 2,085 accounts going back to 1784, and a podcast pins every witness it has interviewed to the spot, with the episode number. Beyond the apes lie the other cryptids: dogmen on Wisconsin back roads, giant birds over Kansas City, sea serpents from Norwegian newspapers of the 1800s and a chupacabra blamed for dead rabbits across Ukraine.

1. Sasquatch Sightings Map Canada: 2,085 Reports Since 1784

   On 23 May 1988, at 12:50 a.m., two couples at the Crandell Lake campground in Waterton Lakes National Park heard snorting, ran for their cars and switched on the headlights. The animal in the beams was “not only on its hind legs; it was striding like a human”, and one of them wrote it down for the park warden’s office the next day. The investigator Thomas Steenburg called it the most detailed account he had probed in twenty years. Each of the 2,085 entries is headed by its date and place, from “1784 - Lake of the Woods” through a prospector named Harry Morin following a game trail near Cold Lake in April 1935 to a brown, eight-foot figure seen by at least ten people on the road into the Pelican Narrows reserve in 2012. The entries reach from the Yukon to Nova Scotia.

   

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2. Pennsylvania Bigfoot Map: Encounters Sorted by Era

   Every report here fits in one sentence. In Spring Mills a teenager and his dog had “recurring food exchanges” for years with a gentle creature with reddish-brown hair. In Brownfield a girl watching TV saw an 8-10 foot figure with green eyes at the window, which “screeched & ‘giggled’” and ran into the woods. In Wysox a family heard screams and later found a deer wedged in a tree. The reports are coloured by era, grey for 1900 to 1959, blue to 1999, bright red to 2015 and yellow since, and the Appalachian Trail runs through them as a line of its own, with the counties of the neighbouring states drawn for reports across the border.

   

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3. Cryptids Map: 1,707 Reports in 94 Countries

   The Project Darkwood tracker sorts the world’s monsters the way a field guide sorts birds, into Aquatic, Canine, Feline, Flying, Hominids and Reptiles/Amphibians, plus Anomaly Sites and UFOs. Its entries follow one pattern, type, location, source, notes: Labynkyr Lake in Siberia is listed because it “stays above freezing when all other nearby lakes freeze”, and the Bloop is pinned at sea at 50°S 100°W. The canine layer holds long witness reports, from farm dogs attacked by a strange animal near Janesville, Wisconsin, on 5 November 1869 to an “Anubis-like Dogman” seen at 3 a.m. at the Great Lakes Naval Station in 1994.

   

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4. Bigfoot Podcast Map: 1,445 Witness Stories by Episode

   Every pin on this map comes from a witness interviewed on the Bigfoot Society podcast and names its episode. At Forks, Washington, a man’s brother played Scottish bagpipes from a high point during a BFRO expedition, and “power knocks” answered from behind basecamp. In Maumee, Ohio, a woman’s father had up to ten meetings with a non-aggressive Bigfoot in the 1950s and 60s and made friends by giving it fruit. In Chesterville, Ohio, a boy was touched by one during a night-time game of hide and seek in a cornfield in 1980. The 1,445 accounts reach 18 countries, and some are older lore, such as the Navajo story from the Chuska Mountains of disabled children left behind in the 1860s and found years later, cared for by Sasquatch.

   

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5. Sasquatch History Map: 17 Classic Cases of the Fraser Valley

   In late June 1884 the Victoria Colonist reported a “gorilla type” creature captured twenty miles north of Yale, four feet seven inches tall, 127 pounds, covered in glossy hair an inch long. Its keeper planned to exhibit it in England, and nothing more was heard of it. This is case 2 of 17, the sites of John Green’s Sasquatch Summit booklet, numbered from a stone foot found near Lillooet and given to the Vancouver Museum in 1947. Around 1948 Henry Charlie of Chehalis was chased more than a mile down the Morris Valley Road by a Sasquatch that kept pace with his bicycle. In November 1969 a driver told the RCMP at Lytton about a seven-foot creature on the Trans-Canada Highway that raised both arms “as if in surrender”, with a face “like a wizened old man”.

   

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6. Dogman Sightings Map: 599 Werewolf and Dogman Reports

   The Cloaked Hedgehog collects the canine side of the subject: dogmen, werewolves and wolf-headed figures in 24 countries. A swimming dogman tried to climb into a boat in Michigan in 1967; a “black bear” with a large wolf’s head turned up in 2001; in Brazil two police reports were filed in Tauá in 2008 over a werewolf stealing sheep. In England the oldest story is from 1798, when two men crossing the Bickerton Hills in Cheshire ran from something under the full moon, and in 2015 the “Beast of Barmston Drain” was said to have jumped an eight-foot fence carrying a German Shepherd.

   

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7. Sea Serpent Map Norway: Lake Monsters in Old Newspapers

   In Ringsjøen a serpent was seen in 1867 with a head like a horse’s and a mouth “so big a cat could easily walk in”. In Flåvatnet one is said to have been cut up by the paddles of the steamer St. Olav around 1880. And at Vangsvatnet, where a serpent had dammed the outlet, people hung something shiny on the church tower, the serpent came to look, and so it was shot. This Norwegian map has three layers: sea serpents in newspapers of the 1800s, each linked to the scanned page in the National Library, reports from 1900 on, and Erik Knatterud’s list of lakes with a serpent, from “old legend” to four people who saw a five-metre serpent with several humps in Åfjordvatnet in 1977.

   

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8. Oregon Bigfoot Highway Map: A Field Guide in Six Areas

   Joe Beelart and Cliff Olson treat the forest roads between the Clackamas and the Santiam as Bigfoot country and map it like a hiking guide: six numbered areas with their boundaries, mile markers along the highway, camp sites, meadows, quarries, talus fields and lakes, each with GPS and elevation. The evidence layer is where it gets specific: the “Olson Saddle Trackway”, drawn as a line, follows Cliff and Joe’s “100’s of tracks in snow” from December 1998, and the Beaver Pond tracks of July 1994 lie at 1,265 feet. For one site the coordinates are withheld at the request of a Forest Service official, because an archaeological site is nearby.

   

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9. Mapinguari Map: Ground Sloth Sightings in the Amazon

   A village of Kanamarí in the Juruá valley said they raised two infant mapinguaris on bananas and milk after hunters scared off their mother. The map gathers sightings of mapinguaris and other animals some take for surviving ground sloths. In Rondônia a kida harara wandered into the Karitiana village of Kyõwã and everyone fled into the forest. In Belize the archaeologist Thomas Gann glimpsed a shaggy black animal with a white mane on the Rio Azul in 1932, and honeymooners were warned of a “cave cow” near Xunantunich in 2015. The oddest pin is in San Jose, California, where a woman said she saw a giant sloth-like animal through her sliding glass door around 2010.

   

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10. Vancouver Island Sasquatch Map: 329 Reports and Legends

    On 5 August 1906 a prospector wrote that he and a partner had “dropped right into the wild man” on the shore of Horne Lake, “clothed in sunshine and a smile”. Thomas Sewid’s map collects 329 reports from Vancouver Island and the coast north to Bella Coola, crediting John Green, René Dahinden, John Bindernagel, the BFRO and his own investigations. In 1959 a family surprised a Sasquatch digging for clams on Gilford Island; in 1978 one sat on a guard rail at night, raised its right arm against the headlights and sprang down the bank; around 2015 Sewid recorded a skull placed on a rock at Bearsides Bay, with broken clam shells and two sets of footprints at low tide.

    

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11. Mothman and Thunderbird Map: 186 Winged Cryptids

    Margie Kay put her own sighting on the map: in 2017 she saw a huge set of outstretched wings in a tree across the railroad tracks behind her deck, a giant thunderbird with three smaller ones. Many of the 186 reports come from around Kansas City. Richard Frieburg, 63, was watering his tomato plants on 58th Street when he heard something huge with bat-like wings. A woman ran to her car after work and something landed on it and covered it with its wings. One pin marks a “suspected Mothman hideout” under a bridge, and west of St. Louis a driver saw a winged creature with a human head flying along the highway in 2018.

    

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12. New York Bigfoot Map: 255 Reports Since 1850

    In the winter of 1920 Abe Fortes followed a large two-legged trackway for over a mile through the Cassadaga swamp. In 1975 a golf course owner met “a giant two legged beast sloth like thing” at 11:30 p.m. In 1976 a school bus driver stopped so the children could watch a hairy creature. The reports, from witnesses, books, newspapers and local researchers, run from East Aurora in Orsamus Turner’s history of 1850 and wild men “eluding capture” in 1868 to an ex-Marine whose lean-to was pelted with rocks in 2022. In 1997, a man reviewing his video of a concert by an apple orchard thought he saw two creatures, the small one swinging in a tree.

    

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13. Scottish Big Cat Map: 659 Panther and Lynx Sightings

    On 16 May 1982 a woman walking an old railway track near Penicuik saw what she first took for a lioness on the hillside and watched it for five to ten minutes; her husband looked away sooner, “for fear of alarming the children”. Cameron_E_S has gathered 659 such reports from the Scottish Big Cat Trust, the Fortean Times, local papers and Facebook groups, and sorts them by what the witness thought they saw, lynx, panther, mountain lion or unidentified, and by period. In September 1992, at 1 a.m. on the A1, a lynx “slightly larger than a retriever” with tufted ears stood in the headlights and then strolled off the road without hurrying.

    

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14. Indiana Bigfoot Map: 278 Reports from Before 1910 to Now

    The decades are the layers, from before 1910 to the 2020s, and the titles tell the story of each. The 1960s have “Fluorescent Freddie”. The 1970s have “Bigfoot Terrorizes Town after rash of UFO Sightings” and “Cousins Surprise Hairy Being in the Out House”. The 1980s have a hominoid leaping a five-foot fence in Fulton County, the 1990s a boy scout who met one while lost. In November 2024 a hunter in his deer stand, reaching for his rifle to fill his last doe tag, saw a Bigfoot stalking the herd. Every report links its source, from the BFRO to state newspaper archives.

    

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15. Yowie Map Australia: 300 Sightings Since 1788

    Australia’s Bigfoot is the Yowie, and this map starts with it in 1788, at Mount Sugarloaf in New South Wales, as an Aboriginal legend. Each of the 300 pins is a year and a place linked to a report on Yowie Hunters: Kenilworth in Queensland in 1858 and again in 1998 and 2005, Springbrook in 1978, 1984 and 1997, the Jenolan Caves in 1990 and the Adelaide River Bridge in the Northern Territory in 1989. Most cluster along the east coast, from Victoria to Far North Queensland.

    

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16. Sasquatch Evidence Map: Stick Structures and a Fish Trap

    At Spruce Grove in Colorado a group of researchers found sticks wedged into a river alcove, and as they stared at it a rock splashed into the water in front of them. They decided it was a fish trap: a fish swimming into the alcove would be stunned by the sticks long enough for a waiting Sasquatch to grab it. That night a tree broke on the far slope “with a sound like a thunderclap”. This map is their evidence log in Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, with layers for structures, wood sign, tracks and encounters, and names like “Spruce Grove Playpen”, “Kenosha Pass TP” and “Deer Grove Double Tent”.

    

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17. British Bigfoot Map: 1,585 Wildman and Werewolf Reports

    In February 2021 the River Ouse had burst its banks around Harrold in Bedfordshire, and fish were stranded in the flooded fields. A man driving to work saw a strange figure looking into the water as if searching for something, and came back after his shift to check. Deborah Hatswell’s map calls it “The Ouse Wose, a fishing British Bigfoot” and gives every report a title: “The Cheshire Troll”, “A Towering 8ft Tall White Goat at Loch Morlich”, “Like the Wolf in Harry Potter” near Lanark. Wildmen share the 1,585 pins with werewolves, big cats and UFOs, and the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui is there in Tom Robertson’s report of 2004.

    

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18. Olympic Peninsula Bigfoot Map: BFRO Reports in Full

    On 26 December 2012 a homeowner near Ocean Shores “stumbles across a sleeping sasquatch in the brush behind his home”. The 136 reports of this map are mostly copied in full from the BFRO database, each with its report number and class: teens returning from a baseball game chased along the East Satsop Road in August 1972, 17-18 inch tracks in the mud near Brinnon in 1996, possible footprints photographed at Lena Lake in 2013. The newest, from the winter of 2025, has two people on the way to Port Angeles watching a Sasquatch cross the road in daylight and raise its arm as if to shield its eyes.

    

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19. Chupacabra Map Ukraine: 39 Attacks on Rabbits and Hens

    In March 2012 something killed several dozen rabbits in the yards of Koziatyn. In Uzhhorod a household found nearly all its poultry and rabbits dead, and at the Lutsk zoo an unknown animal killed two fallow deer. This Ukrainian-language map follows the chupacabra from village to village between 1988 and 2015, mostly through rabbits and hens. In Putylivka a creature a metre long “with a very long rat-like tail” was found in an abandoned well. Near Romny a 43-day expedition of the group “Romny-Kosmopoisk” studied the phenomenon, and a school museum there, “Anomalous Planet”, has a whole exhibit on it.

    

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20. Irish Bigfoot Map: Wildmen, Pookas and Prints in the Bog

    Around 1965 a farm hand on a castle estate reported barrels of molasses for the horses stolen; they were found empty, some smashed, at the end of a molasses trail deep in the forest. This map of 90 Irish encounters mixes the old wildman with the new Bigfoot: a “Big Dog Forest” with a history of sightings of the Pooka, more than 20 prints found in one bog between 2018 and 2020, a couple walking their dogs who saw a seven-foot figure “between a Neanderthal and a Chimpanzee” wielding a large stick. In Trim a statue honours the old tales of the Wildman of the Woods.

    

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21. Bigfoot Around the World Map: Almas, Yeren and Kapre

    Bigfoot has a local name almost everywhere, and this map gives each its pin: the Almas, Mongolian for “wild man”, in the Caucasus; the abnauayu of Abkhazia, whose story the map dates back to the 1400s; the Kapre, a seven-to-nine-foot “tree demon” of the Philippines; the Hibagon of Hiroshima, black with white hands and feet. Some entries are history: the Sunday Telegraph’s headline “Soldiers ate a Yeti” of 22 April 1979, and Homo gardarensis, the name once given to bones from a 12th-century Norse burial in Greenland. In Virginia the “ASA Monster” haunted the ammunition storage area of the Quantico Marine Corps base.

    

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22. Bigfoot Species Map: 15 Cryptid Ranges of North America

    Someone has drawn North America’s Bigfoot like a naturalist’s range map, 15 biomes of subspecies. The Plains Bigfoot turns its hair from brown to white in winter. The Jacko lives almost entirely inside the Sasquatch biome and fishes for salmon. The Zoobie, named by a rancher family, travels in large family groups east of San Diego. The Rugaru of Minnesota is the biggest, “well over 8 feet”, Texas’s Hairy Bill averages 8 feet because “they grow them big in Texas”, and the Ohio Grassman, the most aggressive, has “the most urban encounters”.

    

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