Tuesday, June 26, 1973 Big, muddy ‘critter’ sighted at Big Muddy Carbondale Southern Illinoisan Tracks, screams Is there really a monster from the Big Muddy River? Murphysboro police and Jackson County authorities spent several hours early today trying to find out. The answer is still awaited: The physical facts included: A couple parked near the boat launch area [...]
Wednesday, July 09, 1975 Fabled Monster Reportedly Seen Centralia Sentinel Murphysboro, Ill. (AP) A “white and shaggy hairy creature about 7 feet tall,” has been spotted in a country churchyard near here. Two men who said they were gigging frogs reported seeing the creature, whose description matches that of the fabled “Big Muddy Monster.” The [...]
Saturday October 14th, 2006 ‘It’s time for your close up, Mr. Du Pont monster’ By Charles Stanley Ottawa Times People who have heard of the Du Pont monster, the Seneca area’s version of Bigfoot, but have never seen him may not have much longer to wait. The creature may soon be on the silver screen [...]
October 10, 2005 Bigfoot believers – what do they believe? Chicago Tribune – Online Edition If this were Washington state, the rumors might not even raise an eyebrow. If the City of Chicago were nestled in the heart of the Himalayas (I’d like to see Daniel Burnham’s urban plan for that one), the stories might [...]
October 10, 2005 Small Town A Bastion Of Bigfoot Belief By Dave Wischnowsky Chicago Tribune SENECA, Ill. — A few months ago, the big news in this village of 2,053 residents was that its lone men’s barbershop had closed after 42 years. As the summer wore on, however, many locals found themselves bantering about a [...]
July 21, 2005 Bigfoot seen in Seneca? By Charles Stanley Ottawa Daily Times SENECA — For at least 20 years, the woods on both sides of Seneca near the Illinois River have been frequented by elusive Bigfoot creatures, according to an investigator for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. The reports of a sighting from 1983 [...]
Wednesday, October 23, 1968 The Monster Story Fulton County Democrat About 9:30 p.m. Friday evening while driving on the Dutch Henry crossing near Lewistown, three high school boys in a pickup truck had been following their friends who were riding in a car quite some distance ahead of them. All at once the boys in [...]
Saturday, February 14, 1885 A Wild Man Decatur (Illinois) – Saturday Herald A wild man haunts the woods near Locust Grove.
Sunday, November 15, 1891 A Wild Man Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader A wildman is defying the rigors of a Central Illinois climate by appearing in a nude state to residents of the Okaw bottom, near Vandalia. A search party is being organized.
Friday, December 04, 1891 The Wild Man Hunt Decatur Daily Republican A systematic hunt for the wild man who roams about in Loudon and Carson townships Fayette county is to take place Dec.5. A circle of searchers about four miles in circumference is to be thrown around the supposed haunts of the queer being in [...]