La Salle County, Illinois

Near Marseilles

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La Salle County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

October 2011

Earlier this year I had a sighting near Marseilles, Report # 30003. Just this past week I had another sighting in the same area, just a bit further down the road. Again I was coming home from work on the motorcycle, it was about 2:30 a.m. I made my left turn onto Marseilles Blacktop off Route 71. Since my last sighting I take those curves much more slowly, and keep a good watch on the fields. I was coming around the second curve and I noticed a strange eye shine about 100ft ahead of me to my left (east side of the road). What caught my attention was the size, color, and height of the eyes. They were quite large, much larger than a deer, and yellow. There is a small hunting area on that side of the road that borders the corn. These eyes were right on the edge of the corn and the hunting field. This time I slowed down. As I got closer I could make out a large human like figure, about a foot taller than the corn. It began walking slowly away from the road and turned its...

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La Salle County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Bow hunter sees an animal resembling a gorilla near Marseilles

I was bow hunting 20 ft up in a oak tree and could see 1/4 mile in most directions. It was in the bottomlands of the Illinois River in the country. I heard a noise about 40 yards from me in the thicke...

November 2012

La Salle County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Possible activity experienced by a family near Utica

We were sitting around a campfire in our yard with our 3 dogs, when we heard coyotes howling-- nothing unusual. We see tracks and hear them frequently. The coyotes were howling and were then joined by...

October 2012

La Salle County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Late night encounter by a motorcyclist outside of Marseilles

I work nights, and was riding my motorcycle home (Marseilles, IL) from work. At about 1 am I turned from Illinois Rt 71 south onto Marseilles road. Immediately after the turn there are 2 sharp curv...

July 2011

La Salle County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Motorist has night-time sighting near bridge just south of Seneca

Now I work at night and I travel across the River Rd to Marseilles the next town to the west. The night of February 24th at or around 3 am while coming home, at the base of the new bridge to the so...

February 2011

Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Resident's nighttime sighting outside home near Sewickly

It was September of 1997 and I was outside on my back porch having a smoke. It was about 9 o clock at night and it was a bright clear night out. I had been out on my porch for about 2 mins when from m...

September 1997

Sumter County South Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Small. Child-like Bigfoot seen crossing road

My wife and I saw a small childlike bigfoot while in SouthCarolina a year ago. It crossed the road in front of us, about 25 yardsahead of the car. It stopped in the middle of the road and looked at us...

August 1995

Chelan County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Driver has road-cross sighting on Highway 2, north of Leavenworth

August 7th between 10:00 and ll:00 AM. Saturday. as driving on Highway 2 toward Levenworth. I was about 10 minutes out of the town. The car in front of me saw it first. He had to stop his car or he wo...

August 2004

Volusia County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by two newspaper deliverymen around 3:30 a.m

A large, hairy, ape-like humanoid standing in the middle of a dirt road at approximately 3:30am. A creature was sighted in the headlights of the witness' pickup truck. As the witnesses stopped their ...

January 1989

Fremont County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Twenty-two inch tracks found

Four 22 inch long bare human tracks. Eight feet from toe to heel in order left right left right. These tracks followed a deer path doun a hill and crossed a dirt road. The road was very hard and the t...

April 1998

Boone County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Evening sighting by motorists along I-65 near mile marker 131.

My wife and I were driving to Indianapolis to see our parents. It was around 10:30 PM when we saw a large creature cross the interstate. It crossed about 200-300 yards in front of our car from the lef...

December 1977

Allen County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Late night sighting by teen at Lost Creek Golf Course

I was walking home from my friends house around 1:00 am. We had been playing video games at his house. I was 15 at the time. I wasn't scared of walking across the golf course, I did it several times. ...

March 1987

Umatilla County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Family sees stooped-over creature walking along forest line

Me and my family were having a picnic at a spot off of the old hwy near 84 called Deadmans Pass. We had just started to eat when one of the kids saw what at first we thought was a black bear across a ...

July 1991