Bigfoot · 2018
XX-2018ID case-ed78601beaFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 23, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jun 2018to the month
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports feeling an intense sense of being watched and impending danger while hiking in Northern Illinois in the summer of 2018, which they later associated with bigfoot.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Bigfoot reports with no place (3,703) - When
- Jun 2018
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 23, 2026
- Case id
- case-ed78601bea
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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.
- The reason why I began entertaining the possible existence of bigfoot, and why I have been reconsidering it...
Reddit · 2023-04-22
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
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