Historical Witness

Brian Gosselin

New York1976
Location archiveNew York
Profile overview

At a glance

Encounter period1976
RegionNew York
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationYes – other witnesses and police response
Primary sourceHistorical interviews / Sasquatch Chronicles
Exact locators1
Media / transcript records2
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

Police officer / outdoorsman; outdoor experience: High.

1976 · New York

Whitehall 1976

large upright creature at close range; spotlight / pistol

Open case →

What the witness reported

LOC-0011

Source-linked observations — LOC-0011

  • close-range visual
  • hands/fingers visible
  • head set on shoulders / little visible neck
  • dark reddish-black hair
  • muscular build
  • long stride

Original source ↗ Open locator →

Media

Watch, listen & read

2 source records0 playable here0 transcripts located
Audio interviewJanuary 28, 2018

Sasquatch Chronicles EP401 — Brian Gosselin

Sasquatch Chronicles / Podscripts transcript

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

Transcriptthird-party transcript
Open original source ↗
Audio interviewJune 7, 2024

Bigfoot Encounter at Abair Road with Brian Gosselin

Odd & Untold

Long-form firsthand retelling of 1976 Whitehall encounter plus later investigative commentary.

Transcript
Open original source ↗
Sources & changes

Key source passages

LOC-0011

Sasquatch Chronicles EP401 — Retired police officer's encounter

spotlight visual at roughly 30–35 feet; hands/fingers visible; head set on shoulders; dark reddish-black hair; muscular back/buttocks; later six-foot-plus stride estimate

Exact locator → Original source ↗

Source chronology

1976

Reported encounter period

New York. large upright creature at close range; spotlight / pistol

Open source/record →
1976

Recovered source

Firsthand/source record

2018-01-28

Recovered source

Firsthand/source record

Changes over time

Stable / recurrent

  • Multiple source layers are present; source-by-source comparison should remain chronological.
  • 2024-06-07: stable/repeated core encounter + later investigative commentary — Bigfoot Encounter at Abair Road with Brian Gosselin
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Reported co-witness / corroboration

Yes – other witnesses and police response. This is not coded as independent testimony unless the co-witness's own source is recovered.

Evidence mentioned in source matrix

Footprints reported; police response. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.

Documentary strengths

  • Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
  • Recoverable source URL is preserved.
  • 1 exact source locator record(s) currently recovered.
  • Multiple source layers are available for chronology comparison.
  • The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.

Limitations / controls

  • Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.

What would improve the record

  • Recover the co-witness's own statement where possible.
Source-linked testimony

Witness dossier

Only explicitly recorded relationships appear here. Links and recordings document attributed material; they do not independently corroborate an encounter.

Documentation at a glance

Linked media records
3
Named media providers
3
Associated case records
1

Multiple linked media records make this dossier more extensively documented. They do not establish independent sources or verify the underlying encounter.

Associated cases

Testimony and related media

Source-backed account summaries

No source-verified narrative summaries are currently available for the linked media. Witness claims will not be reconstructed from titles or search snippets.

Media source audit

Brian Gosselin — Music interview / audio source
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
In Search of Sasquatch: Overnight with Brian Gosselin
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
podscripts.co — 2 linked records
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗

Documented source chronology

No exact publication dates are established in the currently linked canonical media. The chronology remains unresolved rather than inferred.

Research limits

Chronology, verification and source interpretation remain governed by each canonical record. No additional claim is inferred from the relationship graph.