Bigfoot · Godfrey, Illinois · 2011
IL-2011ID case-1967f27412First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Feb 2011to the month
- Where
- Godfrey, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The property owner reports a possible sighting of a 'squatch' on their property earlier in 2013, noting that the area is heavy with woods and creeks.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Godfrey, Madison County, Illinois, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 2011
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-1967f27412
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Property owner describes possible sighting and activity near Godfrey
BFRO · 2013-06-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, John Green (1978)
Newspaper-publisher's file of Pacific Northwest reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch, Don Hunter with Rene Dahinden (1975)
Casebook from a long-time field investigator.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Bigfoot, Marian T. Place (1974)
1970s account of reports and searches.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, Loren Coleman (2003)
Coleman's history and case survey.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.