Incident #991448
Eagletown, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma
May 1849
Account
One-Eye Bascom said to have seen a 'strange critter' in the swamps, with a description that fits Bigfoot.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 13 1849
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1849
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Oklahoma
- County
- McCurtain Cty
- Nearest Town
- Eagletown
- Latitude
- 3402
- Longitude
- 9434
What was seen
- Population Status
- wild
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- swamp
- Nearby Water
- swamp
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Casebook, quoting McCurtain, OK, Sunday Gazette, July 9 1978, about On-Eye Bascom, hunter-trapper, from diary of Bertrand Tonikahah.
Witness
- Observer Was
- huntingýtrapping