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Bigfoot sighting near Rochester, Illinois
Sep 1977 · Rochester, Illinois, United States
In 1976, while digging bait by the Sangamon River near Buckhart, Illinois, three fishing companions felt watched and then heard a scream they could not identify.
The account itself raises a hoax or a misidentification.
Facts
- Reported as
- Man tells of the strange occurrences and his sighting as a teenager near Buckhart
- Date
- Sep 1977
- Place
- Rochester, Illinois, United States
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- 39.772, -89.469
- Located within
- 4.8 km
- Light
- daylight
- Witness was
- fishing
- Witnesses
- 3
- Sounds
- scream
- In the account
- felt watched, near water, scream, witness fled
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 2 independent (5 listings)
Sources
- BFRORead the report
- BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
- BFRO (KML copy)Read the report
- ManganiRead the report
- BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report
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- Nighttime road crossing between Rochester and East Lake Drive
- Multiple witness motorist sighting on Rt 36 east of Riverton
- Two fishermen hear possible vocalizations then find footprints west of Warren
- Recollection of a daylight sighting as a youth in Riverton
- Possible sighting near University of Illinois Springfield soccer fields
- Motorist spots a tall hairy biped chasing deer near Edinburg
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