Other Feline · Buckhart, Illinois · 1977
IL-1977ID case-54eb332ae6First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Feline
- When
- 1977to the year
- Where
- Buckhart, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a companion heard a strange vocalization while parked in timber near Buckhart in 1977, which the narrator initially speculated might be a Lynx cat.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Feline
- Where
- Buckhart, Sangamon County, Illinois, 62545, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1977
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-54eb332ae6
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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.
- Man tells of the strange occurrences and his sighting as a teenager near Buckhart
BFRO · 2010-11-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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.