Bigfoot · Sangamon County, Illinois · 2011
IL-2011ID case-8178502eaeFallback locationAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 2011to the month
- Where
- Sangamon County, Illinoisfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing stomping footsteps and a 'Whoo-oo' vocalization from the west near his house after dark.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words. - When
- Oct 2011
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-8178502eae
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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.
- Vocalizations recorded and possible footprint found near Sugar Creek
BFRO · 2011-06-23
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.