Other Flying · West Englewood, Illinois · 2020
IL-2020ID case-72f5248632Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Feb 26, 2020to the day
- Where
- West Englewood, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A woman reports seeing a big, black birdman in her backyard, and her son later photographs prints believed to belong to the creature.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- West Englewood, Chicago, Lake Township, Cook County, Illinois, 60636, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 26, 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-72f5248632
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Source trail (1)
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- February 26th, 2020: A woman reports a “big, black birdman” in the backyard of her apartment building in West Englewood, 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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