Bigfoot · Cook County, Illinois · 1896
IL-1896ID case-bb00818995Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Apr 1896to the month
- Where
- Cook County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report following mysterious giant footprints through a suburb that ended abruptly or split, leading to speculation about a supernatural agent.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Cook County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Apr 1896
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-bb00818995
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 2 of The Ely miner (Ely, Minn.), April 22, 1896
Newspaper · 1896-04-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 6 of Warren sheaf (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.), April 23, 1896
Newspaper · 1896-04-23
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.
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