Yeti. United States

of note, the American magazine "Hoosier Folklore" from 1947, you can see that in southern Illinois a lot of people regularly saw an unidentified large APE-like creature that looks like a "strange" baboon.

Further excerpt from the notes:

"Here in southern Illinois, there are legends about the strange beast. Community members repeatedly reported on the observation of the beast in the center of the stream. Despite the fact that it is difficult to say when I started these observations, the story apparently goes back to the event in 1941 near the river Gum Creek near mount Vernon. In the summer of 1941 local preacher was hunting squirrels, when a very large animal, like a monkey jumped from the tree next to him."

It is further reported that the beast began to approach the preacher on two legs, absolutely like a man, a scared man pulled out a revolver and fired several shots into the air to scare off the animal. He succeeded, but the unusual monkey didn't get very far.

Soon she began to see other local residents, and even more to hear her screams from the forest. About strange forest the screams reported by the group of students, and the hunters saw in the forest unusual tracks, like the tracks of local animals.

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