Bigfoot sighting near Murphysboro, Illinois

6 Jul 1975 · Murphysboro, Illinois, United States

Two men gigging frogs reported a white shaggy creature about 2.1 m tall in a country churchyard at Murphysboro, Illinois, that fled breaking a tree limb.

Facts

Date

6 Jul 1975

Place

Murphysboro, Illinois, United States

Evidence

visual

Point

37.775, -89.692

Located within

926 m

Witness was

other

Witnesses

2

Creatures

1

Height

2.1 m (7 ft)

Described as

white hair

Behaviour

fleeing

Traces

broken branches

In the account

branches breaking, nothing found after, searched after, silver or grey, very tall

Account

firsthand

Sources

1 independent

Sources

• John GreenRead the report

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