Incident #991030
St. Joseph, Champaign Cty, Illinois
Oct 1973
Account
Duncan, Summers, Mowry and Flenniken were on the township road leading to Sidney, south of St. Joseph and got out of their car to investigate what they thought was a campfire near the bridge on the Salt Fork. When one of them lit a match they saw about 15 feet awat a 5-foot, hairy, gorillalike creature.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 16 1973
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Illinois
- County
- Champaign Cty
- Nearest Town
- St. Joseph
- Latitude
- 4047
- Longitude
- 8801
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 4
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Nearby Water
- creek
Source
- Source
- Champaign-Urbana, IL, Courier, Oct 17, 1973, quoting Bill Duncan, 17, Bob Summers, 18, Daryl Mowry, 17 and Craig Flenniken, 17, St. Joseph, IL.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 5 ft
- Posture
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled