Flap: Woodstock, Illinois, Feb 2019 – Oct 2020
27 reports · 28 separate documents
Other Flying (24), Other Canine (1), Dogman (1), Other Humanoid (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 55 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Feb 22, 2019 A man in Woodstock reports seeing a large, winged being covered in dark fur illuminated by his car headlights as it crossed the street.
Other Flying · Woodstock, Illinois - Feb 25, 2019 A woman driving to work near Darien, Wisconsin reported being terrified by a near-miss with what she called a “flying witch”.
Other Flying · Darien, Wisconsin - Feb 28, 2019 A man reports an unusual being with wings and bright green eyes charging at him from the McHenry County Fairgrounds.
Other Flying · Woodstock, Illinois - Mar 6, 2019 A woman reports hearing a sinister and monster-like growling outside her home in Woodstock, Illinois.
Other Canine · Woodstock, Illinois - Mar 7, 2019 A woman driving in Woodstock reportedly saw an extremely tall being with fur and wings run in front of her car.
Other Flying · Woodstock, Illinois - Mar 2019 The narrator's ex-girlfriend confirmed seeing a dogman with ears and tail after the incident at Blood Point.
Dogman · Cherry Valley, Illinois · rabbit hole - Jun 2019 A witness reportedly had two separate sightings of a four-foot-tall brownish creature with two legs and bat-like wings in Carol Stream.
Other Flying · Carol Stream, Illinois - Jun 2019 A man reports seeing a large, dark, man-sized bat-bird 'thing' flying behind his home.
Other Flying · Franklin Park, Illinois - Jul 5, 2019 A witness reports seeing a pterosaur while driving home in Wheaton, Illinois.
Other Flying · Wheaton, Illinois - Aug 2019 Witness and two friends report seeing an all-white figure walking away from them near their home late at night.
Other Humanoid · Lake County, Illinois - Sep 2019 A woman reports seeing a toddler-sized bat creature running like a gorilla across Meadow Hill Road near Barrington, Illinois.
Other Flying · Barrington, Illinois - Sep 2019 A man reportedly saw a creature described as a mythological Harpy in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.
Other Flying · Little Village, Illinois - Oct 5, 2019 A ride-share driver reports seeing a tall creature with bright red eyes and large wings near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Other Flying · Chicago, Illinois - Oct 2019 A woman reports sighting a winged humanoid in Rosemont, Illinois, which led to strange dreams and an encounter with an uninvited investigator.
Other Flying · Rosemont, Illinois - Oct 2019 A woman reportedly encountered a seven-foot-tall humanoid with veiny, batlike wings in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.
Other Flying · Pilsen, Illinois - Oct 2019 A woman and her husband report seeing an unknown flying human owl perched in a tree near their apartment.
Other Flying · Hoffman Estates, Illinois - Oct 19, 2019 A man reports a shrieking giant-sized bat flying overhead while he was smoking outside a wedding reception.
Other Flying · Rosemont, Illinois - Oct 30, 2019 A witness reports seeing a large winged humanoid while driving to their home in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Other Flying · Park Ridge, Illinois - Dec 6, 2019 A man reports seeing a red-eyed, winged humanoid while driving near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Other Flying · Chicago, Illinois - Dec 2019 A woman reports seeing a "flying gargoyle" while driving near Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
Other Flying · Hoffman Estates, Illinois - Feb 26, 2020 A woman reports seeing a big, black birdman in her backyard, and her son later photographs prints believed to belong to the creature.
Other Flying · West Englewood, Illinois - Jun 2020 A woman in Cicero reports seeing a huge entity with demonic wings and a flash of red color while walking past her son's room.
Other Flying · Cicero, Illinois - Jul 2020 Witness reports a man saw a six-to-seven-foot-tall creature resembling a very big bat with human-like features while on break from his job as an air traffic…
Other Flying · Chicago, Illinois - Jul 2020 Witnesses report seeing a large winged humanoid fly overhead while unloading a plane at O'Hare International Airport.
Other Flying · Chicago, Illinois - Aug 2020 A witness and five family members report seeing a wingless humanoid flying over Market Street in Waukegan.
Other Flying · Waukegan, Illinois - Oct 26, 2020 A woman and her mother reportedly witnessed a creature described as a demon with red eyes and very large wings in Schiller Park.
Other Flying · Schiller Park, Illinois - Oct 31, 2020 Witnesses report seeing a red-eyed, winged being in the trees near Waukegan Skate Park.
Other Flying · Waukegan, Illinois
Sources: singularfortean (25), YouTube (1), Reddit (1).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.