First-hand
Bigfoot Society EP 524
Sasquatch sighting near Tomahawk, Wisconsin (1979)
1979
about eleven o'clock at night
Tomahawk, Lincoln County, Wisconsin
1 witness
Account
At age twelve the witness took a junkyard car for a night joyride outside Tomahawk until it died. While walking back he saw trees shaking and a tall hairy biped step into the ditch and walk alongside him for about a mile. He ran to a lit quonset hut, pleaded with the creature, then fled to a truck and drove to town.
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What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- eight to nine feet tall
- Build src
- very large muscular, thirty-five inch biceps
- Hair colour src
- dark brown, black
- Hair length src
- two to three inches
- Face src
- high brow ridge, high cheekbones, flared nose, thin lips, large teeth
- Arms src
- long, hands three inches below knee
- Hands src
- very large, sixteen inches wrist to fingertips
- Gait src
- walking with eight to ten foot steps, arms swinging
- Posture src
- upright bipedal walking
- Age / size src
- adult, like forty or fifty year old human
- Other features src
- cone head, giant trap muscles, no visible ears
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
1979
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
about eleven o'clock at night
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| Place |
Tomahawk, Lincoln County, Wisconsin
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| Map point |
45.4790, -89.7118 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Tomahawk city (GEOID 5580125), matched from nearest town 'Tomahawk'
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
joyriding in junkyard car at night then walking back after car died
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| Witness's word for it |
Bigfoot
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| Creature |
Sasquatch / Bigfoot
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Source timeline
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