Bigfoot · Arlington Heights, Illinois · 1977

IL-1977ID case-2bfa225f79Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026

Creature: Bigfoot
When: Nov 1977to the month
Where: Arlington Heights, Illinoisfallback location
Reports: 4 documents1 independent

The account

The text reports that a manlike creature known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch is said to live in the mountains of California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia and has been seen by hundreds of people.

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Details

Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Arlington Heights, Wheeling Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Nov 1977
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Nov 10, 2026
Case id: case-2bfa225f79

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Source trail (2)

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Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago, 1977-11-19
newspaper_ia · 1977-11-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago, 1977-11-19
newspaper_ia · 1977-11-19

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