Bigfoot

Bigfoot (Big Foot) is a common name for a North American crypto-hominid, sometimes linked to J. W. Burns's Sasquatch, coined by Gerald Crew in reference to the size of footprints discovered at a road construction site near Bluff Creek, Humboldt County, California in 1958.

Bluff Creek footprints (1958)
"”There is a mystery in the mountains of northeastern Humboldt County, waiting for a solution...'"

The first report of the "Bigfoot" made front page on the 4 October 1958 edition of the Humboldt Times. In the cover story, journalist Andrew Genzoli gave a summary accounting of the claims made by Gerald Crew, a bulldozer operator working at Bluff Creek, near Garberville, who had brought the paper a plaster casting of an enormous footprint that he said he had discovered at his work site.

Patterson-Gimlin film (1967)

 * 20 October 1967