Bigfoot · Nelson, Illinois · 1977
IL-1977ID case-589e4e022aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 11, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Aug 1977to the month
- Where
- Nelson, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a hairy creature walking upright on two legs near a slough for about an hour.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Nelson, Nelson Township, Lee County, Illinois, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1977
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-589e4e022a
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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.
- Fisherman see creature walk out into open area on two legs
oregonbigfoot · 2003-12-07
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.