Other Flying · Illinois · 2020
IL-2020ID case-4f524aaef2Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Aug 2020to the month
- Where
- Illinoisto state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A man reports seeing a gargoyle with little horns on its head in Itasca, Illinois.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Illinois, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 2020
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-4f524aaef2
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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.
- August 2020: A man reports seeing a "gargoyle with little horns on its head" in Itasca, Illinois.
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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)
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.