Bigfoot Seen in Illinois December 2021

A bigfoot was seen by a motorist near Chandlerville, Illinois, a small town of only about 200 people near the Sangamon River south of Peoria in central Illinois, on November 29, 2021.

The My Journal website out of Jacksonville, Illinois, a large town and the seat of Morgan County which is the website for the city’s daily newspaper, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, which is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Illinois (since 1830).

The witness reporting the story was Patrick Garver who said the encounter along Illinois Route 78 near Chandlerville that lasted just seconds. But it left a lasting impression on the driver going from Cass County to Tazewell County that night. “When it hit the shoulder, it looked back at me,” Garver said. “I said to myself out loud, ‘F_ing Bigfoot!’.”

Garver was driving the stretch of road about 10:30 p.m. heading north. “I saw a large animal jump into the road about 40 yards ahead. When it hit the road, I could see very large legs spread wide in a dead run with large, swinging, hairy arms. The arms switched back and forth close to the ground as its body was leaning forward. It leaped across the road in two jumps,” he told investigators for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, a scientific research group.

Garver said it was about two seconds before the creature vanished into the darkness. “I could see it clearly,” he said. “It was very large and, even though it was hunched over nearly horizontal, it still was close to being wider than my car and nearly to the top of my windshield. It blocked out the lights of [a] car ahead.” He recalled it having shiny black hair and a huge stride. “It was running and leaping very fast,” he said. “Nearly as fast as a white-tail deer.” He continued driving until he reached Havana, where he stopped to send a text his wife and children about what he experienced. (myjournalcourier.com, 13 Dec 2021)