Hancock County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Unusual vocalizations from Mississippi River bottoms between Hamilton and Warsaw

My wife and I on several nights have heard a sound just like the recordings. On every occasion our dog growls like she is ready to kill someone. On every occasion it goes on for a few minutes and t...

May 2001

Hancock County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Deer hunter sees large hairy black creature that "plays peekaboo" near Webster

It was a year ago, during deer hunting seaseon (2000) It was at dusk. When i was going around the outside of the timber I had to go around a point. When I started to go down the other side there it wa...

November 2000

Jasper County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Mushroom hunters find series of large footprints near Ste. Marie

Around five years ago me and a buddy were mushroom hunting and came across about ten feet prints walking down a almost dried creek. The creek went from water to a muddy spot about 15'(?) long and then...

May 2000

Washington County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a sighting on a farm near Nashville

I only wanted to tell you that I saw a big foot in the 1990's possibly early 2000. I don't remember the date. I didn't document anything. Early one beautiful spring morning after my husband left for w...

May 2000

Whiteside County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a daylight sighting as a youth near Fenton

I was 14 in 2000, and it was a soggy spring day. Overcast, threatening rain. I had been playing with a childhood friend with whom I've since lost contact on my Grandma's 14 acre wooded property. I...

April 2000

Edwards County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Motorist has a possible nighttime sighting west of Albion

I was coming home from work, heading from Albion towards Fairfield, which would have been about 11:30 that night. It was near Red Hill Road. I started smelling something first, I had my window down, i...

March 2000

Schuyler County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a close encounter by motorists just north of Rushville

My sister and I were driving North on Hwy 67 just past Rushville, Illinois. It was about 3 am, we came up on a part of the road that veered left in a wooded area. I saw an image up ahead in the road s...

January 2000

Moultrie County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Memory of possible vocalizations and rock throwing southwest of Atwood

The following personal interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. Jennie - We lived out in the country on a farm. Some of it was hunting ground and...

October 1999

Henry County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime sighting of gray upright animal near Kewanee

I was hesitant to even tell my wife about this, when it happened and it has taken me a few years, now, before I felt I could say anything. I didn't want anyone to think I was crazy or seeing things. I...

September 1999

Fulton County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Recollection of possible encounters at a cemetery in the village of Cuba

Some friends and I used to like to scare ourselves silly so we used to walk out past the graveyard in town late at night sometimes. We had a couple strange experiences in a short period of time. The f...

January 1999

La Salle County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of encounters on a farm near Ottawa

From as long as i can remember.. in deer park township about a mile from caitlin park, just outside of illinois state starve rock park.. on my grandparents land..who are now deceased..from the earlies...

January 1999

Pulaski County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Motorist has a nighttime sighting near Karnak

I was driving back to my home at night. It was 1999. Not sure what day of the week, but it was a week day. I was driving at night back from a friend's house in a town close by. At the time I resided i...

January 1999

White County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Couple hears possible vocalizations a few miles outside of Carmi

My fiance and I were visiting my family for a week from New York. We went outside for a smoke, while the rest of my family was in bed asleep. We stood under a tree in the yard, talking quietly for a b...

September 1998

Shelby County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a nighttime highway crossing near Stewardson

I was with a friend, returning home from a baseball game in St. Louis. We were on route 32 in Illinois, just north of the Shumway turnoff by about a mile or so, when a large bi-ped appearing around 9'...

September 1998

Fayette County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Possible footprints found five miles east of Vandalia

My wife and I were out driving around checking out the countryside and came across this park. We got out to take a walk and enjoy the weather and the woods. We decided to walk the foot path. I started...

September 1998

Calhoun County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Woman sees black shiny figure standing by tree disappear into forest

I noticed that when we passed by the "chicken house" that the chickens were not out and about as usual. Then I noticed a medium size dog running very quickly down the road towards us. Then on the d...

May 1998

Jersey County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Motorists have possible late night sighting south of Otterville

It has been several years ago but I really feel the need to tell someone this story. Several years ago when I was in my mid twenties or so me and a friend saw something on our way back from dinner in ...

October 1997

Sangamon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Recollection of a daylight sighting as a youth in Riverton

Basically, it was the area of the Sangamon river bottoms between the old Rt 36 bridge and the Rt 54 bridge in Riverton. It must have been at least 15 years ago. I was riding my minibike through th...

September 1996

St. Clair County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of daylight sighting while riding dirt bike east of Freeburg

My sister recalled a day sighting roughly 5 pm across from our home, in the strip mines. This was roughly 20 years ago. She was riding a small motorcycle down a rock road, she came over the hill to lo...

June 1996

Macoupin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Camper has nighttime sighting outside of Bunker Hill

I was visiting my cousin in Bunker Hill, Illinois I believe it was either 1994 or 1995, but I am 100% sure that it was the fourth of July due to the fireworks we had seen earlier that night. After...

July 1995

Sangamon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Multiple witness motorist sighting on Rt 36 east of Riverton

About ten years ago I saw something very peculiar. It was laying in the middle of the road and I didn't notice it until I was about to hit it. As my ex-girlfriend and I swerved to the left lane to go ...

January 1995

Winnebago County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Nightime sighting by property owner near Kishwaukee River.

someone should call me about this....i have a great deal of information to relate.....autumn night....weather was warm but very foggy....area was at my house which was in a glen near the kishwaukee ri...

October 1994

Henderson County Illinois (Class A) BFE

Pregnant woman watched from across field by a Bigfoot

My friend and I were arrowhead hunting one summer day very remote field I looked up and saw big foot standing on the other side of the field watching me not moving just looking at me it was about was ...

June 1994

Macoupin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a sighting at dawn while deer hunting north of Hettick

It was the November deer season in Illinois 1993 I think. I was hunting some ground north of Hettick, Illinois . About sunrise I heard twigs snapping behind me to my right , I was in a tree-stand over...

November 1993

Macoupin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Large shaggy creature crosses road behind girls walking at night near Carlinville

In September 1992 my girlfriend spent the night at my house. Around 11:30pm we were bored and so my girlfriend and my two sisters and I decided to sneak out of the house and take a walk around the lak...

September 1992