Bigfoot · Clark County, Illinois · 2013
IL-2013ID case-9eff198c00First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jan 16, 2013to the day
- Where
- Clark County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A truck driver reports seeing a large, black, ape-like creature squatting in a field near I-70 in Clark County, Illinois, which moved away with a unique gait.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Clark County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jan 16, 2013
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-9eff198c00
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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.
- Semi truck driver on I-70 observes a large ape-like creature in a field near Marshall
BFRO · 2013-01-17
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.