Toby S. shared his encounter on the Facebook page and he writes “My first encounter with Bigfoot was in 1988 I was living on the eastern edge of Pinckneyville Illinois about 25 yards from the Beaucoup Creek.
My back yard was right on the wood line that was a down slope to the creek. I was sitting at the kitchen table around midnight messing with a tattoo gun. It was summer so I had the windows open, the windows faced the wood line that was only about 30 feet away. I started smelling a funky odor that smelled like old mud from the bottom of the creek. Then I noticed something out the corner of my eye look down into the top of the window.
The hair on my body stood on end but I stayed still and acted as I wasn’t alarmed. I calmly got up and went to the living room and got my rifle. I went out the side door and made my way around back, but saw nothing. I heard something huge rushing away through the woods. I pretended to go back in but his in the darkness watching and listening. After 20 or 30 seconds I couldn’t hear what ever was in the woods crashing around anymore and didn’t notice the smell.
To look into the top of the window it would had to have been over 7 feet. Back then I never thought to go looking for tracks, but later that week a few sightings were reported in Murphysboro Illinois which is 18 miles south. They started calling it the big muddy monster. The Beaucoup runs into the big muddy. I can’t guarantee it was Bigfoot but I would bet money it was. My guess is he heard the tattoo gun and got nosy.“