Folklore / legend
Bigfoot Society EP 353
Sasquatch sighting near Burns, Tennessee (1860)
1860–1869
Burns, Tennessee
2 witnesses
Account
As retold, two brothers or a man and worker stopped at Hall's Spring for water in the 1860s and saw a large hairy man-like thing staring from the woods. They ran, one was caught and killed, the survivor reported it, and locals formed a posse and staked a goat to try to capture it. This is given as the origin of Werewolf Springs.
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Build src
- large
- Hair colour src
- hairy
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
1860–1869
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|---|---|
| Place |
Burns, Tennessee
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| Map point |
36.0578, -87.3204 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Burns town (GEOID 4709880), matched from nearest town 'Burns'
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| Account type |
Folklore / legend
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
getting water at spring before returning to town
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| Witness's word for it |
large hairy man monster thing
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| Creature |
Sasquatch / Bigfoot
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Source timeline
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