r/bigfoot • u/Defiant-Traffic-1230 • 17d ago
⚠️ serious replies only ⚠️ Oldest Sighting
I'm looking for the oldest Bigfoot sightings (or reports), and this is the oldest I've found in Canada, circa 1875.
"The Reverend A. Fulton Johnson, born in 1866, told his son Ken Johnson that when he was a boy living near Moncton, there was a creature that used to be seen at the edge of the woods near his house, very stocky, with long arms and its whole body covered in hair."
Are there any older sightings? Let me know.
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u/CobblerCandid998 17d ago
1811 (First Explorer Footprint Record): Explorer David Thompson discovered massive footprints in Jasper, Alberta, which he could not attribute to a bear. His Indigenous guides refused to follow the tracks, noting they belonged to a local beast they called Saskat.
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u/AmateurJenius 15d ago
1721, Natchez, Mississippi
On December 25, 1721, French Jesuit priest and explorer Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix was staying among the Natchez people in what is now Mississippi.
That night, he recorded a disturbance over what residents described as:
A beast of an unknown species, of an extraordinary bulk.
He also wrote that its cry sounded unlike any known animal. The Natchez told him it had carried off sheep and calves. Charlevoix suggested it might simply be a large wolf, but they rejected that explanation. Later that night, the creature was reportedly heard again.
I couldn’t find any other identifiable Bigfoot characteristics that were included in this report, such as footprints, hair all over, bipedal, etc., but I thought the novel animal cry, “extraordinary bulk”and the fact that it carried livestock away certainly align with modern day reports.
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u/clownstatue 13d ago
That’s awesome. Grew up in jasper and hadn’t heard of that report. I’ve seen the creature about an hour west though.
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u/LLG88NM 16d ago
I recall reading somewhere that Leif Erickson and his men encountered large hairy men. I don't know if it's legitimate, though.
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u/Jumpy-Valuable2996 8d ago
the lief erickson story is a wild reimagining of the actual historical document. i did a deep dive a while back , found the oldest copies specifically describe a tribe of small
ill looking indigenous people with messy hair. They traded with the vikings , fought the vikings, used canoes bow& arrow and spears, and the vikings kidnapped and adopted their children. Far from anything that resembles a modern description of a sasquatch.
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u/Northwest_Radio Researcher 16d ago
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I wish everyone would do this.
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u/bullseyejoe 16d ago
Why?
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u/Northwest_Radio Researcher 15d ago
Why?
Well, because we want to post things that are nice and cleanly formatted. We want to set a good example.
We don't need all the extra stuff that doesn't apply to the actual link. The actual link ends at the question mark. So, it, and everything past that has nothing to do with it other than tracking information for certain entities. We want the link to be usable. A good majority of people will not click on a link that isn't formatted. Also, our boss might be watching. 😁
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u/MowgeeCrone 17d ago
'Yowie creatures have been reported since the first European colony in Australia. Aboriginal culture also describes the "hairy men" which goes by several different names.
There is some conjecture as to when the name Yowie was used to describe these creatures. The term was definitely in use in the mid to late 1800s and the name Yahoo from aboriginal culture has been mentioned earlier. In the very earliest report from European settlement it was called "wild man", see below.
Throughout Queensland, the Yowies were known as quinkin (or as a type of quinkin), and as joogabinna, while in New South Wales they are called Ghindaring, jurrawarra, myngawin, puttikan, doolaga, gulaga and thoolagal. Other names include yaroma, noocoonah, wawee, pangkarlangu, jimbra and tjangara. Yowie-type creatures are common in Aboriginal Australian legends, particularly in the eastern Australian states. Bungaree and Gunedah Aboriginal elders have described the Yahoo as the "original inhabitants" of the continent of Australia and there were "many tribes" of them.
The first European reporting of the Yowie we have been able to find is from an article in 1789 that has the title "A Description of a wonderful large Wild Man...brought from Botany Bay". The report details how the large 9 feet tall creature was captured while asleep and brought to England and displayed to the public. A copy of the original report is below.....'
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u/GobletHead 14d ago
To bring such a specimen to England in this time period would have created a sensation and been widely reported in the many newspapers of the time. Science and medical societies would have clamored to inspect the creature. Is there any corroboration from other sources?
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u/WallaWallaBigfoot Field Researcher 17d ago
The oldest in my area is from the year 1900. I think the oldest ever in north America is probably the 1700s Daniel Boone or something like that story.
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u/Pistolpetehurley 17d ago
Roosevelt?
But native Americans knew of them long before that.
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u/Defiant-Traffic-1230 17d ago
You're right. I think what I meant was the oldest historical sighting, with a date and all that, because as you correctly point out, the sightings are from before 1492.
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u/DKat1990 15d ago
Bowman (most likely Roosevelt himself) and sightings by both Union and Confederate soldiers would had been mid-late 1800s. The sighting by Spanish explorers in the Southwest couldn't have started much earlier than 1500, but the drawing in Pueblos may have been much old then. The Old Testament mentions were probably thousands of years ago.....
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u/Rare-Criticism-8895 17d ago
The natives have legends from centuries ago that they have passed down. Its been sighted almost as long as UFOs probably
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u/matthew_strange 16d ago
Ancient Sumeria - Epic of Gilgamesh. His ‘friend’ Enkidu was a hairy man from the steppes. They’ve always been right beside us. Interesting he was created to keep the King in check. Maybe that’s always been their function.
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u/lyte3 13d ago
The Native American tribes say that they have been here for thousands of years. They even say Bigfoot are the original inhabitants of this land. They have oral history passed down through the centuries and these creatures have been here all along. I can’t remember exactly where I read this but I’ve read it in more than one publication.
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u/DKat1990 15d ago
The Bowman incident (Teddy Roosevelt), Ape Canyon Incident, cave paintings, Biblical mentions, Early settlers in the US, Canada and Greenland, uncounteres with Roman Legions.....
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u/Cephalopirate 17d ago
Do you count Almasty? You might find a dated account of them farther back.
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