Illinois

[ Note: The first names of the witnesses has been changed. ] Preface: This information is based on witnessed facts, and is as close to the events as I can recall. I am blessed with a near photographic memory. F…

a low hum · screaming or howling · growling

As a fifty-six year-old man, I am sincerely bewildered when harkening back to my youth and pondering my former naivety. The saying goes, “I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid”. What concerns me is that I was stupi…

knocking · something walking upright · humanoid

I was just outside and my 3 yearold lab was spooked by somethig like I've never seen. Barking--in a fear sound-- and running in circles! Wind is in the west and that is the direction of her concern. Only other…

screaming or howling · voices · the feeling of being watched

It was in the summer of 2012 around 7 pm. It was very hot outside and we had been in a long drought. The nearest town is Makanda IL. The nearest road is Progress Lane which is off of Water V vcalley road. I bel…

voices · a very tall figure · glowing eyes

My name is Jerrod Reynolds. Years ago I was one of the biggest critics and thought that bigfoot was a spoof. I grew up hunting and fishing in central Illinois. My father who is a USMC Vietnam Vet taught me at a…

voices · dogs reacting

I have never told anyone this, except my husband ( who never did believe me, he knows something happened but he can't wrap his mind around this possibility ) for fear of ridicule. I was alone when this occurred…

screaming or howling · growling · silence

The following on-site interview was conducted by Stan Courtney on the 2nd of Nov 2010. The first name of the witness has been changed. Stan - How long have you been coming out here? Mark - I've been coming out…

screaming or howling · growling · the feeling of being watched

I decided to turn my sighting into BFRO. I will start by saying I was introduced to the BFRO by my brother. I read some of the sightings, listened to their sounds and what they thought it might be. I took it wi…

voices · footprints

The following on-site interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. Stan - How long have you been coming to this location? John - A couple months now. Stan - What typ…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

In the early eighties and late seventies many incidents concerning what could only be classified as an unidentified homonid were reported in the area of Southern Ill. In particular, the area of Jackson Co. and…

screaming or howling · growling · a very tall figure

It was midsummer of 1990, I was living alone in a mobile home in the woods adjoining Shawnee National Forest. I decided to go for a walk in the woods because I was bored and was thinking about shooting my rifle…

screaming or howling · growling · footprints

The following phone interview was conducted by Stan Courtney on the 13th of June, 2005. The witness does not have a computer or internet access so the information was entered with his permission. The first name…

something walking upright · a dark figure · a foul smell

The following incidents occurred between the years 1984 and 1986 around our woods which is located just south of the intersection of E300 N Rd 300 and county road 1425 Northwest of Atwood Illinois. At the time…

knocking · screaming or howling · footprints

To protect the confidentiality of the witness the witness names have been changed. Stan Courtney is familiar with this story since he spoke to both Mary and myself about what Mary and her husband saw. Mary live…

footprints

I attended two BFRO Expeditions last year, the Oklahoma trip in September and the Missouri Ozarks trip in November. After those trips I wanted to try to locate some sasquatches in my area. There is a national f…

knocking · whooping · voices

The following interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. I have also camped in my motor home in the same campground. John - Well, we camped over the weekend, and I…

a very tall figure

This was circa 1978. As my friend and I were walking from his house along his 1/4 mile driveway that meandered through the woods along side of the creek we had heard some odd noises that caught our attention. A…

voices · footprints

I've been wanting to talk about this years, to give this report about what happened to me. I went and reported it when it happened to the local police but they didn't make an official report because of the circ…

taking off impossibly fast · a very tall figure · humanoid

I was hesitant to even tell my wife about this, when it happened and it has taken me a few years, now, before I felt I could say anything. I didn't want anyone to think I was crazy or seeing things. I spent som…

The following phone interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. Because the witnesses do not have Internet access, the information was entered with their permission. The first names of the witnesses have been cha…

a dark figure · hooded · multiple witnesses

I had previously written an Email to BFRO and explained my encounter with a sasquatch that we called the big muddy monster at a pond called A-41. Well guess what, I was just watching TV and they just ran a stor…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure

Well, I went out hunting with my Lab, I got a full-blooded Lab, my dog. And as usual I went out on a Wednesday. It was a nice sunny day out, nice weather, around 72 degrees, 75 degrees, very good weather. I dro…

screaming or howling · the feeling of being watched · repeated event

It was summer, late 70's, I was about 12. I lived a block West from railroad tracks, which ran North/South, and about 1/2 mile North of my home was the edge of a wooded bottomland which is referred to as Middle…

the feeling of being watched

Me, my wife, and another hiking buddy (a female) had just hiked seven miles from the entrance of Red Cedar Trail, at Giant City State Park, to the primitive campsite where we set up our sleeping arrangements. M…

screaming or howling · paralysis

The following personal interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. Jennie - We lived out in the country on a farm. Some of it was hunting ground and some of it was…

screaming or howling · rocks being thrown

I would love to talk to you about things that happen to me back in the 60's south of Oregon, IL. along Rock River. I do believe it was maybe a Bigfoot. I was raised in the Oregon, Illinois area. We had a place…

screaming or howling · growling · the feeling of being watched

It all began with my father in law. He had an encounter of something huge and making an un familiar noise he said he had never heard before. He is a 70 year old man and great guy. I recall laughing and making f…

screaming or howling · growling · vanishing suddenly

Note: the witness names have been changed for privacy. My name is Jim, and I've reported a vocalization experience which happened approximately 11 years ago in the same area. Regarding this following report, I'…

footsteps · a very tall figure · something walking upright

In 1953 I was a 10 year old girl living in George Field (Barracks), IL. George Field was a WWII air base for pilot training & the barracks housed airmen and brass. After the war the Barracks were converted to c…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · pilot witness

The first sighting was in late Sept to early October of 2003. I apologize for not remembering the date exactly. In the small town of Goodwine, IL on the west side. It was cool weather, clear skies, about 55 to…

a dark figure

October 10th, 2011, it was a Tuesday morning I believe, no it wouldn’t be a Tuesday morning because I was out here in the afternoon. I was walking down that trail on the next ridge over. I was just coming back…

knocking · wood knocking · whooping

I was driving back to my home at night. It was 1999. Not sure what day of the week, but it was a week day. I was driving at night back from a friend's house in a town close by. At the time I resided in a small…

a very tall figure

[Witness first names have been changed] On Tuesday evening June 28, 2011, I along with fellow paranormal investigator James arrived at the Cumberland Sugar Creek Cemetery in rural Sangamon County near the small…

footprints

I was out late one night cat fishing at Clinton Lake by myself. I had been there for probably a couple hours and hadn't really been catching much. I had talked to a few people who were coming in on boats and se…

a very tall figure · glowing eyes · the feeling of being watched

In 1977 my family and I were visiting my grandmother in Marion, IL (Williamson County) for the Holidays during what was called "the blizzard of '77". This being my first experience of heavy snow I was amazed at…

screaming or howling

The day was july 2,2011 we decided to go fishing at the kankakee river out in manteno, il. Ive been fishing there for about 10 yrs. just recently about 4 yrs at the new location between the wilmington and momen…

knocking · wood knocking · whooping

I know this is a years-old report, but.. I've only told 3 people about this, EVER. If I hadn't just read that another sighting occurred near the same area previously, I still wouldn't say anything. It was a ver…

footprints

I believe that I had an encounter this past Fall in Massac County. I was bow hunting some public land called Sielbeck just the day after Thanksgiving when I believe I encountered a large, two legged creature ju…

screaming or howling · repeated event

I have had two encounters, both when I was about 15, both occured in the wooded hills near the home where I grew up. The first incident was at an abandoned cabin where four friends and I hiked to one night. Thr…

screaming or howling · growling

From as long as i can remember.. in deer park township about a mile from caitlin park, just outside of illinois state starve rock park.. on my grandparents land..who are now deceased..from the earliest i rememb…

screaming or howling · paralysis · footprints