Other Flying · Chicago, Illinois · 2011
IL-2011ID case-34faeeb73eAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Sep 5, 2011to the day
- Where
- Chicago, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A man reportedly followed a flying creature with bat-like wings and tentacles over the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood in Chicago.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Chicago, South Chicago Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Sep 5, 2011
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-34faeeb73e
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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.
- September 5th, 2011: A man reportedly followed a creature with "bat-like wings, a small bulbous head and what seemed to be 'tentacles' extending from behind it" that he’d seen flying over the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood in Chicago.
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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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