Other Flying · Logan County, Illinois · 1977
IL-1977ID case-6067969ac8Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jul 25, 1977to the day
- Where
- Logan County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large bird grabbed her son [name] and carried him screaming across the backyard.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Logan County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 25, 1977
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-6067969ac8
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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.
- Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago, 1977-07-29
newspaper_ia · 1977-07-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Arlington Heights Herald, 1977-07-29
newspaper_ia · 1977-07-29
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.