a lo o k ba ck by Tom Holton and the Dublin Historical Society
Bigfoot Loose in Dublin! Area residents report multiple sightings of sasquatch during Muirfield construction in the early 1970s This story is from the summer 1989 issue of Shanachie, a magazine of Dublin culture and history. It was written by the Dublin High School journalism class, which collected stories from Dublin Village residents in 1984 and 1985 that were published across four volumes. “Shanachie” is an Irish word for storyteller. The stories are treasures of Dublin history. Here is the story. The spring of 1972 saw perhaps one of Dublin’s best rumors and most notorious pranks. It
was the first year of construction for the Muirfield Village Golf Club and the construction sites were a sea of mud. One stormy night, a shaken nightwatchman reported he had observed a 10-feet-tall, black, hairy, ape-like creature. The next morning, workers and some townspeople found numerous sets of 14-inch “sasquatch” footprints leading in and out of the Muirfield area at Ashbaugh Road. TV crews and newspaper reporters came for the story. Mothers kept their children in-
side. Experts from The Ohio State University were called in. Former Dublin Mayor Catherin Headlee owned a farm adjoining the Muirfield site and sold sweet corn and other produce to the construction workers. She was interviewed by the media and later gave this story to Shanachie guest writer Man Ying Lam. Following is Headlee’s recollection of the bigfoot scare. The text reflects Ms. Headlee’s colloquial speech pattern.
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