Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    August 1989-91
 

TIME:     Dusk
 

LOCATION:   Illinois, Pope County
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    While squirrel hunting, just before dusk my "ex-wife" was walking through a thicket in a wooded ravine when she started smelling a very strong odor similar to a "billy goat". The air and the woods were very still. When she stopped to figure out which way would be the best to navigate through the thicket she heard a couple of foot steps following behind her. Because the area was so dense and the darkness of dusk, it was impossible to see what was following her. She immediately started walking faster and could hear the foot steps still following. Each time she would stop to look back, the foot steps would also stop. The odor in the area was very strong at this time. Finally she reached the top of the ravine and the edge of the woods. She fired a shot into the tree tops in the direction of her follower and heard "something" or "someone" or "whatever" run off down the ravine through the woods. The odor that was so strong began to fade away at this point. When she got home and told me about the incident, I started kidding her about a "Big Foot" was trying to catch her. She said that wasn't funny! The next day shortly after noon I went to sit on our back deck, which was surrounded by woods, and as I opened the door to go out there was a very strong "billy goat" odor in the air. I immediately thought about the incident the evening before and started scanning the woods searching for the source of the odor. I never saw anything out of the ordinary so I went back in and phoned our neighbor who owned a billy goat but he assured me that his billy goat had never been loose nor had it left his farm. I returned to the back deck again to investigate further but the odor was gone and never returned again. Could this have been a "Big Foot"?
I don't know of any other encounters in this area and the actual source of the foot steps and odor were never seen, or was this some sort of coincidence and imagination that sparked the theory of Big Foot?
I wish I knew for sure.
 

Activities of Witness:   Squirrel hunting while sitting on deck surrounded by woods.
 

Description of Creature:  No creature was sighted, only the sound of foot steps in the thicket and the very strong odor similar to a billy goat smell.
 

Other Notes:    N/A
 

Additional Notes or Comments:
Additional information added by the witness from the follow up.
The smell of a "billy goat" was so strong that it made her eyes water and her nose burn. The next day the same strong smell was behind our house for just a short while but nothing was seen or heard. The only billy goat in the area was at least 1 mile away from either site and when the owner was asked if the billy goat was free to roam, he said his goat is never turned loose and was there at his farm at the times questioned.

Have you had any reports of a Big Foot having the smell of a "billy goat"?

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