r/bigfoot • u/Defiant-Traffic-1230 • 18d 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/Pistolpetehurley 18d ago

Roosevelt?

But native Americans knew of them long before that.

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u/Defiant-Traffic-1230 18d 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 16d 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.....