Archive version 4.4 · Chronology

Archive Timeline

Chronological discovery across case, witness, and media records.

1950s

1955 · Case

Mica Mountain 1955

William Roe’s reported close visual encounter, anchored to his 1957 sworn account.

1955 · Witness

William Roe

Roe reported a close visual encounter near Tête Jaune Cache. The 1957 sworn account is valuable because several diagnostic morphology details appear early, before modern Bigfoot media culture.

1960s

1967-10-20 · Case

Bluff Creek 1967 / Patterson–Gimlin Film

Flagship dossier documenting the reported Bluff Creek filmed encounter and competing hypotheses.

1967-10-20 · Media

Jack Webster Interview — Bob Gimlin, 26 Oct 1967

Six-days-after-event testimony from Gimlin discussing whether he thought the encounter was a gag and his decision not to shoot.

1970s

1971-05-02 · Witness

Bobby Ford

Ford reported a close encounter at his recently purchased rural home. Contemporary reporting, family/companion witnesses, hospital treatment and law-enforcement response make the event unusually well documented for a regional monster report.

1971-05-02 · Case

Fouke 1971

Household and companion reports that became the Fouke Monster case, with contemporary press and law-enforcement response.

1972-07 · Witness

Doris Harrison

At age 15, Harrison was reported as looking from a bathroom window after her younger brother screamed and seeing a tall black shaggy object roughly 50 feet from the house.

1972-07 · Case

MoMo / Marzolf Hill 1972

A 1972 family sighting that triggered the Missouri Monster media wave; earliest clipping wording is kept separate from later embellishment.

1972-07 · Media

MoMo 1972 — Doris Harrison Newspaper Account

A state-agency transcript preserves the wording of a 1972 local newspaper clipping about Doris Harrison and her younger brother.

1973-06-25 · Case

Big Muddy / Murphysboro 1973

Four carnival workers are named in an official police case file describing one underlying group event.

1973-06-25 · Media

Big Muddy Monster — Murphysboro Police Case File

Official police record naming four carnival workers in one reported encounter near ponies.

1973-06-25 · Witness

Otts Norris

Norris was one of four carnival workers named in the official police file describing a large hair-covered upright subject near ponies.

1976 · Witness

Brian Gosselin

Gosselin, then a police officer, reported a close illuminated visual during the 1976 Whitehall flap. The record is useful because of his role and reported observation conditions.

1976-08 · Media

Sasquatch Chronicles EP401 — Brian Gosselin

Retrospective firsthand interview with the former police officer associated with the 1976 Whitehall / Abair Road case.

1978–1980 · Case

Minerva-area 1978–1980

A local sighting flap with contemporaneous newspaper coverage and multiple named witnesses; events remain separately coded.

1979 · Witness

Herbert Burke Jr.

Burke described a large dark hair-covered subject running bipedally and pumping its arms. The account is valuable as an independent visual within the broader Minerva-area flap.

1980s

1982-06 · Witness

Paul Freeman

Forest Service watershed rider Paul Freeman reported seeing a tall ape-like reddish-brown subject in a closed-access watershed. Forest Service personnel also documented associated footprints.

1982-06 · Case

Tiger Creek / Paul Freeman 1982

Forest Service employee sighting plus associated track documentation; testimony and physical-trace authenticity remain separate.

1990s

1993-04-03 · Case

Oregon National Guard 1993

Neiss’s three-subject visual during military training, with a detailed public firsthand account by 2007.

1993-04-03 · Witness

Todd Neiss

During a National Guard training exercise, Neiss reported observing three large dark bipedal figures. His 2007 public account already contains much of the morphology repeated in later interviews.

1993-04-03 · Media

Todd Neiss — 1993 Oregon National Guard Encounter

Detailed firsthand written account containing the early public morphology package later repeated in interviews.

2000s

2007 · Media

Sasquatch Chronicles EP444 — Mississippi Turkey Hunter

First located public firsthand interview for a 2007 hunting encounter; rich morphology but roughly eleven years after the event.

2020s

2021 · Media

My Bigfoot Sighting EP221 — Kevin Arrow

Firsthand account of a large mass standing and walking bipedally for several strides near Cedar Lake.

2023-11 · Media

My Bigfoot Sighting EP219 — Kevin Frankenfield

Firsthand account by a hunting/fishing guide describing a very large subject outside his property.

2026 · Media

Sasquatch Chronicles EP1284 — Sara Brown

Recent ongoing-property account with a specific roof visual segment that can be separately indexed and audited.