Bigfoot sighting in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Date unknown · 980 AD - Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Web post claims Leif Erikson's journal described hairy men with a rank odor and shriek in Newfoundland around 980 AD; it suggests they were Indigenous Skraelings.
The account itself raises a hoax or a misidentification.
Facts
- Reported as
- 980 AD - Newfoundland
- Date
- Unknown
- Place
- 980 AD - Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- 49.254, -54.054
- Sounds
- scream
- In the account
- indigenous lore, multiple, scream, smell, very tall
- Account
- secondhand
- Sources
- 1 independent
Sources
- Kerry Clausen-Kilmury: Canada mapRead the report
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