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 just east of [...]
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 men said the creature moved [...]
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 in a film in [...]
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 be downright ho-hum.
But, reports [...]
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, [...]
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 west of Seneca in La [...]
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 the pick up [...]
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 the Okaw bottoms, [...]