Civil War Bigfoot

Civil War Bigfoot

From Sasquatch Odyssey by Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters

April 12, 2026 · 1h 5m

About this episode

This episode explores historical Bigfoot sightings during the Civil War era.

The American frontier was full of things that settlers and soldiers couldn't explain, and among the strangest were the Wild Man accounts that began appearing in newspapers decades before anyone coined the term Bigfoot. In this episode, we dig deep into the historical record and examine encounter reports from the eighteen forties through the eighteen sixties, beginning with the eighteen sixty-five Paraclifta, Arkansas account published in the Weekly Standard of Raleigh, North Carolina, and working backward to the eighteen fifty-one Greene County cattle chase first reported by the Memphis Enquirer, the eighteen forty-six Crowley's Ridge footprint discovery published in the Baltimore Sun, and the violent eighteen fifty-six pursuit and attack near the Ouachita Mountains. We examine Civil War-era accounts including the Bridgeport, Alabama wild man captured by Captain George Anderson's men near General Braxton Bragg's encampment and later identified as a traumatized Unionist named Bill Patton who'd suffered a saber wound to the head, the disputed Harper's Ferry letter attributed to Private James Moore of the Sixty-Seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, and the poorly sourced Brice's Cross…

Topics covered

  • Civil War
  • Bigfoot
  • historical accounts
  • wild man sightings
  • American frontier
  • trauma
  • undocumented primates

Keywords

  • Bigfoot
  • Civil War
  • wild man
  • historical accounts
  • sightings
  • trauma
  • American frontier

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Bridgeport, Alabama, Paraclifta, Arkansas, Greene County, Ouachita Mountains, Harper's Ferry, Baltimore, North Carolina

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