Other Humanoid · Camp Pine Woods, Illinois · 2023
IL-2023ID case-da00495507First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Sep 7, 2023to the day
- Where
- Camp Pine Woods, Illinoisto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A Chicago-area woman reports seeing a tall creature with red eyes while driving through Camp Pine Woods.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Camp Pine Woods, Northfield Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 7, 2023
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-da00495507
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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 7th, 2023: A Chicago-area woman says that she saw a tall, red-eyed creature while driving through Camp Pine Woods near the Des Plaines River.
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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.