Other Flying · Little Village, Illinois · 2019
IL-2019ID case-c97001615fAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Sep 2019to the month
- Where
- Little Village, Illinoisto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A man reportedly saw a creature described as a mythological Harpy in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Little Village, South Lawndale, Chicago, West Chicago Township, Cook County, Illinois, 60623, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 2019
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-c97001615f
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Source trail (1)
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- September 17th or 20th, 2019: A man reportedly sees a “mythological Harpy” in Chicago’s Little Village.
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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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.