Other / Unknown · Beardstown, Illinois
IL-NDID case-023b212563Added to map Oct 16, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Beardstown, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report strange shadows in the grass at an old airstrip and an inability to walk to the end of the runway at night.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 16, 2026
- Case id
- case-023b212563
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- I need help with Beardstown, IL Part 2
Reddit · 2024-02-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.