Bigfoot · Saint Clair County, Illinois · 2016
IL-2016ID case-bb1b59c267First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jan 15, 2016to the day
- Where
- Saint Clair County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports finding tracks and casting them in January 2016, noting this was the second time finding tracks after an initial discovery in June 2015.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Saint Clair County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 15, 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-bb1b59c267
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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.
- Possible footprints found and cast east of Belleville near Illinois Route 4
BFRO · 2016-01-27
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.