Comments on: Decatur’s Bigfoot and Kin

By: BRONCOS3

BRONCOS3 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:59:30 +0000

Hi
Im in Casey IL
I would like to report a cat sighting
it was seen near the 5 mile house near charleston it was standing out in the open in a field it was huge looked like maybe a cougar but couldn’t tell it was big muscular I would say it was tan colored but its body structure was huge it was enormous more then a panther or cougar would have its muscle set was massive not sure if it was a lynx or what it was I know others have had sightings of this animal and I would like to know what it is we are seeing
thank you

By: grafikman

grafikman — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:26:16 +0000

I grew up in Vermilion County, about an hour or so NE of Decatur. A friend and I had our own *near* sasquatch encounter (he saw it, I didn’t, we both ran like hell) in 1981 at Kickapoo Park near the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River. Plenty of stories of black panthers, thunderbirds and “hairy men” (hmm, wonder what THEY could be?) around that part of the state.

By: odingirl

odingirl — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:03:21 +0000

When I read things like this, I’m immediately catapulted into the Keelian universe (some have suggested ‘multiverse’). I often wonder if human beings aren’t simply the victims of the longest-running series of practical jokes ever perpetuated.

By: mfs

mfs — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:52:36 +0000

Whenever I hear or read something about Decatur, Illinois I’m reminded of that really interesting and spooky article that you wrote for Fate Magazine back in the 70’s if my memory serves me correctly “Mystery Animals Invade Illinois.” Great blog!

By: oldphilosopher

oldphilosopher — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:11:46 +0000

I am a lifelong, born-and-raised, resident of Decatur, Texas. Our own main claim to fame, I’m afraid, is as the origin of the call in craps to roll an 8 … “Eighter from Decatur, county seat of Wise.” (By some supplemented with “home of the bedbugs, fleas and the flies.”)

Like most such small towns (pop. about 6,000) we have a few locations which some quietly suspect of haunting activity. The town is something over 150 years old.

Lake Worth is only about 30 miles south of here … site of the infamous “goat man” sightings back when I was a kid. And the community of Aurora, site of the 1897 “Aurora spaceman” crash is only 10 miles from here. (Then again, “Machine Gun” Kelly’s grave is also here in Wise County.)

I do actually know someone I trust who has quietly told me of a night when he saw a strange, dark, man-like something-that-wasn’t-a-man cross a road a few miles north of here. But I don’t think he’ll go on record with that.

Just for whatever it may be worth.