Other Humanoid · McHenry County, Illinois · 2024
IL-2024ID case-059bee35a0First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jun 29, 2024to the day
- Where
- McHenry County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing a tall, white, human-like creature with glistening eyes watching them from the shadows at an overlook near Maple Lake.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- McHenry County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 29, 2024
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-059bee35a0
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Possible sighting at Maple Lake, Illinois?
Reddit · 2024-07-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Possible sighting at Maple Lake, Illinois?
Reddit · 2024-07-01
Further reading
- 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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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