Sasquatch sighting near Van Buren County (2011)
Account
During a two-week fantasy role-play event around 1 AM, the witness and a staff member walked toward a river and heard a snap. A tall hairy figure walked parallel to them, stopped, turned its upper body to stare, then entered the woods. They screamed and ran, and staff found a large footprint in the grass the next morning.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- seven foot
- Build src
- lean but muscular
- Hair colour src
- ruddy red
- Apparent sex src
- male
- Age / size src
- adult
- Other features src
- musculature visible under hair
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
12 August 2011
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
about one o'clock in the morning
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| Place |
Van Buren County, Tennessee
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| Map point |
35.6992, -85.4584 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Van Buren County (GEOID 47175); the report gives only the county
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
walking to river area to smoke before bed
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| Witness's word for it |
seven foot hairy thing
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| Creature |
Sasquatch / Bigfoot
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
Measurements: seventeen and a half inch
Source timeline
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Bigfoot Society EP 353 Podcast Interview