Other Flying · Woodstock, Illinois · 2019
IL-2019ID case-ded36730f7Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Feb 22, 2019to the day
- Where
- Woodstock, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A man in Woodstock reports seeing a large, winged being covered in dark fur illuminated by his car headlights as it crossed the street.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, 60098, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 22, 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-ded36730f7
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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.
- February 22nd, 2019: A man in Woodstock, Illinois reports a large, winged being “covered in dark fur” illuminated by the headlights of his car as the being crosses the street in front of him.
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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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