Other Humanoid · Cass County, Illinois · 2019
IL-2019ID case-295499cb99First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 13, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Mar 22, 2019to the day
- Where
- Cass County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a creature running alongside their car that rushed the vehicle after the radio malfunctioned and lights flickered.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Cass County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 22, 2019
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 13, 2026
- Case id
- case-295499cb99
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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.
- I need some help with Beardstown, IL
Reddit · 2022-06-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - I need some help with Beardstown, IL
Reddit · 2022-06-06
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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