Wednesday, July 25, 1894 Wild Man In Louden Township Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader Organized parties are searching for a wild man in Louden township, near Vandalia, Ills., who is surreptitiously slaughtering calves, pigs and lambs belonging to farmers.
Friday, August 30, 1974 Stalks Cornfields – Horrors! A Monster By Dave Schneidman Chicago Tribune Good grief! Could it be that the infamous Murphysboro Monster had turned into a corn-eating suburbanite? Perhaps so, according to witnesses who swear they saw a monster grunting thru a cornfield at Coon Road and Thunderbird Trail, Carol Stream, chomping [...]
Friday, August 30, 1974 ‘Corn’ – fed Monster In Suburb? By Donna Marx Chicago Today Terrified Carol Stream residents called it half human, half ape with red eyes the size of baseballs. Police in the west suburb call the case closed. But Robert Calusinski, 23, who worked for two years as a security guard and [...]
Sunday, October 06, 1974 Carol Stream’s Bigfoot: Is monster really out there? By Dave Schneidman Chicago Tribune As far as monster go, the Carol Stream apparition ranks far down on the scale. Maybe 7 feet tall and weighing a tad more than 500 pounds, it isn’t very big, and it’s a total dropout when it [...]
Friday, July 17, 1970 Farmer City ‘Monster” Sparks Search, Debate By James Keeran Bloomington Pantagraph Farmer City – Believe it or don’t, but a lot of people think there’s something that might be a monster of some sort running about the Salt Creek area south of here. It all started a week ago when four [...]
Saturday, December 10, 1977 Spokesman Review What Readers Say Sasquatch is real to some and myth to others The Spokesman-Review last Sunday invited readers to respond to the following question: Do you believe in the existence of Sasquatch? Is Bigfoot a reality? On what do you base your opinion? Following is a representative sampling of [...]
Tuesday, August 09, 1887 Wild Man Captured Marion (Ohio) Daily Star Oakland, Ill A veritable wild man was captured by the citizens of Sargent township yesterday. He had hair that measures over five feet in length and from appearances it had not been combed for years. His beard was fully two feet in length and [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 1973 … or a hairy gorilla-type near St.Joe Champaign-Urbana Courier Four St. Joseph youths today are wondering if seeing is really believing. The four said they spotted a hairy, gorilla-like creature between 9 and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday just off the township road which leads to Sidney. The unidentified creature was sighted when [...]
Thursday, February 02, 1922 Wildman Lives Alone In Cave New Oxford Item (Pennsylvania) Makes Night Raids On Neighboring Farms and Carries Away Animals. FIGHTS WITH HUNTERS Won Hand-to-Hand Encounter With Man Who Battled Him in His Cave in Effort to Win Reward Mt. Sterling, Ill. – A wild man, living in a cave near here, [...]
Wednesday, July 26, 1972 Huge, White, Hairy “Monster” Reported Sighted In Cairo Cairo Evening Citizen Has the Abominable Snowman lost his love for the isolated mountains in which he so often has been reported? Has he developed a craving for hot, humid climates, and perhaps even a suntan? There have been several reports of a [...]