Bigfoot · Erie, Illinois · 1986
IL-1986ID case-971688b9c2First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 15, 1986to the day
- Where
- Erie, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a hairy humanoid figure near the river while their dogs reacted aggressively.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Erie, Whiteside County, Illinois, 61250, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 15, 1986
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-971688b9c2
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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.
- Youth has nighttime sighting along Rock River
BFRO · 2005-10-28
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.