Tuesday, November 02, 2010 Shadows of the Shawnee investigates Tuttle Bottoms Monster Harrisburg, The Daily Register The Tuttle Bottoms Monster has fascinated generations of Saline County residents. Former Harrisburg Police Chief Gary Crabtree said in 1999 prior to his retirement the department had received as many as 50 reports of some kind of beast lurking in [...]
From the Belleville News-Democrat’s online site BNC.com. Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 BIGFOOT PROGRAM: Stan Courtney, a member of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, will give a program on “Bigfoot: Myth or Reality?” at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Belleville Public Library 121 E. Washington St., Belleville, Illinois Attendance is free, but seating is limited. For information [...]
Stan – I received the following letter from a friend in Springfield, Springfield. Consequently I spoke with the author by phone. The first names of the individuals have been edited so as protect everyone’s privacy. The Sangamon River Bottom Monster Preface: This information is based on witnessed facts, and is as close to the events [...]
Bachelors Grove Cemetery (Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area.) Recently I was asked to speak at the Illinois MUFON State Meeting at Starved Rock State Park. After giving my presentation I was introduced to John Stephenson who stated that my talk had made him think about some of the activity and things he was finding at Bachelors Grove [...]
I started recording 24/7 on the 23rd of May 2005 where I lived along Horse Creek in Central Illinois. I did not record anything suspicious for the first six weeks. Then on the night of the 9th of July 2005 I recorded about an hour of unusual sounds that were so far away and so [...]
After posting The Whisperer on the 22nd of October 2010 I have been going back through some of my sound files and blogposts and looking for any similarities. The first part of March 2010 I recorded a lot of coyotes that were particularly vocal, I assume because of the mating season. I posted on Facebook [...]
Since moving into our new home in April of 2009 I have heard and recorded several unusual vocalizations. To the south of me about one half mile using a remote recorder I recorded what sounds like a growl followed by the dogs barking. And one half mile to the north of our home I have [...]
I have a location close to my home that I have a suspicion about. Seems that something is coming in close to one of the farmer’s homes, makes strange noises and gets the dogs to barking. So I set up my parabolic microphone and recorder in the woods close to the farm in the hopes [...]
I am going to be one of the guest speakers at the Illinois MUFON State Meeting at Starved Rock State Park this coming Saturday, October 23rd,2010. The talk will be about Bigfoot In Illinois. The website with all the details of the meeting details, directions and schedule is at: Illinois MUFON
Recently I had a chance meeting with one of the landowners whose property abuts my research box here in Central Illinois. As the gentleman was in his eighties and had lived here his whole lifetime I thought it would be a good time to see what he knew. We discussed the wildlife in the area [...]