Press report
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Sasquatch sighting near Evanston, Illinois (1919)
1919–1920
after dark
Evanston, Illinois
Account
A newspaper article described a place called Devil's Hole in lonely woods where a thick-bodied, long-armed hairy half-beast called the Gorilla Moron was said to haunt. It was claimed to have attacked dozens of women within a year, leaving many unconscious. The specific attack on two student nurses detailed in the same article was stated by the reteller to have been by human muggers, separate from the hairy-figure reports.
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Described appearance
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- Build src
- immensely thick body
- Arms src
- long, hairy arms
- Other features src
- half-beast
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The report refers to
- “Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1920”Not in the Anomadex yet