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large batwing cryptid encountered in

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Barrington Illinois this happened on

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September 27 2019 and I am still so

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confused I was driving home from work on

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a bright sunny day I get about a mile

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from my house I live in a wooded area on

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northern Illinois about an hour outside

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of Chicago as I'm making my way down an

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unoccupied Street this creature runs in

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front of my car about two car lengths in

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front of my car it was definitely a bat

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creature of some sort I could clearly

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make out the shape of bat wings but it

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wasn't flying it was running like a

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gorilla it would extend its wings out in

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front of itself and push itself forward

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just like a gorilla does when it runs at

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full force this thing was also so black

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that looked almost flat and it was huge

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it was at least half the size of my dog

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who is a 70 pound pitbull boxer mix I

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tried to search for giant bats in the

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area and I found some sightings of giant

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bats flying over Chicago over the last

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two years I've also found some

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references to the Mothman and the Jersey

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Devil but I don't think this thing was

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as big as a man and none of the stories

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I've read mention these giant bats

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running however I did learn that vampire

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bats are the only species of bats that

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run and based on videos of vampire bats

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running this creature moves in a very

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similar manner so now I'm nervous about

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letting my dog out alone any theories

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cryptid wing being observed by phantoms

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and monsters for tea and research

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investigator O'Hare International

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Airport Chicago I was driving to work on

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March 3rd 2020 taking my usual route on

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Mannheim Road and I'm talking to my wife

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on the phone so I'm talking and I'm

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coming up to the intersection of

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Mannheim road and Zemke Boulevard on the

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right side of it is an old Enterprise

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rent-a-car lot that used to be there but

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they moved it to the other side of the

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airport the building is still there and

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everything I'm talking as I pull up to

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the red light and I saw what looked like

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a large wing being coming in like it was

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either landing behind the building or

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landing basically on top of it the

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reason I say it was landing is because

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it was coming down and it looked like it

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had its chest out with its wings flared

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up like it was trying to slow down

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enough to come in for a landing I

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remember yelling out to my wife what the

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hell is that she's like what what what I

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told her what I was seeing she said it

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could be a goose and I said this is way

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larger than a goose I've seen geese

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right now I see geese all over the place

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here there are geese everywhere they're

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migrating the street at the traffic stop

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is five lanes and it was rush hour so

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slamming on the brakes and trying to get

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a good look was an invitation to get

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into a wreck I found a place to turn

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around and went back drove around a few

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places I couldn't get onto their

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property because it's sealed off it's an

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old building and I guess they're using

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it for storage now at least one of the

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garages is used for storage of

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compressors or something because there

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was an open garage and I could see

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inside and there were mobile compressors

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last thing I needed was to have airport

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security all over me for trespassing

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so I drove around and at one point there

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was an opening where I could go in I

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went in took a few pictures and quickly

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got out trying to find this thing and I

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wasn't able to find it honestly this did

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not look like a goose

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it was brownish grayish more on the

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brownish side and it didn't look as big

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it's not like some of the reports we've

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taken since we started a

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Vesta gating this thing was in six or

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seven feet tall it was maybe at best

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four feet tall the wings were membranous

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the only way I can describe them the

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only thing I could compare them to they

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kind of looked like a nymphs wings I

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never got a really good look at the head

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the sighting itself only lasted one

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maybe two seconds I know it only lasted

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two seconds but you're able to get a lot

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of information in that two seconds I can

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honestly tell you that it had no

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feathers it looked like it had no

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feathers on it just membranous wings

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it was far larger than what a Canadian

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goose is its legs were tucked up beneath

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it because it looked like it was coming

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into land either on top of or behind the

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building

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what I saw was basically the chest and

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the wings what I got a good look at was

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the wings they were completely out

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spread that looked like it was trying to

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spread itself out so it could slow down

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for a landing

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Manuel Navarrete

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crow man seen hovering above Chicago

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Washington Park high-rise hello a friend

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shared an NPR article about the

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mothman's sightings in Chicago and I was

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shocked when I came upon your website

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and research on November 1st 2015 around

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10:00 a.m. I was chatting on the phone

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with a good friend minding my business

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making plans for brunch when I glanced

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out my bedroom window and immediately

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noticed something out of place a very

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large crow man hovering over a high-rise

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apartment building about a block away

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from my house

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a man jet black from head to toe upright

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hovering in the air about 5 feet above

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the Midway Plaisance senior apartments

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on East 60th Street for reference this

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is a 17 story high-rise apartment

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building directly across the street from

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Washington Park on the south side of

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Chicago miles from downtown and not a

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lot of high-rises in the area so I'm on

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the phone with my friend but I go silent

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as I'm watching this thing hovering and

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kind of spinning around slowly over the

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building and my friend on the phone

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starts asking me if I'm still there I

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start describing to her what I'm looking

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at and of course she thinks I'm crazy by

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the time I get off the phone to try and

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take a picture the thing starts to float

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away and move westbound behind some

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trees where I lost sight of it I call my

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friend back and she is trying to

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rationalize that I saw some sort of

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life-sized leftover Halloween decoration

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flying 20 stories in the air like a

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balloon I can't say exactly what I saw

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as it was unlike anything I have ever

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seen or could even imagine but it was

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alive and wasn't any damn balloon the

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whole sighting only lasted about 60

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seconds but I got a good look at it from

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my third-floor window before it flew

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away the thing had wings tucked behind

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it but didn't need them to hover or move

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around I wouldn't say it flew at all

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it literally hovered in a standing

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position it was jet black from head to

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toe front to back it had to be about

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eight feet tall and I could clearly make

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out a head arms legs and wings folded

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behind it there wasn't a single cloud in

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the sky and the sky was a crisp bright

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blue

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it was so sunny that it's jet black body

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look Tyra destin'd with shades of blue

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and purple reflecting off of it in the

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sunlight as it did a slow 360-degree

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turn from the arid Essen color and wings

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I can best describe this thing as a crow

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man it almost looked like how the

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feathers of a crow looks iridescent from

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where I was standing at the time I

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googled crow man sightings in Chicago

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and couldn't find any other sightings on

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the Internet to justify what I saw or

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help anyone believe me I only told about

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three to four close friends and family

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members and they just kind of joked

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filed it away mentally and we all moved

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on well fast forward to about a week ago

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and one of the friends I had told my

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sighting to sends me this NPR article

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where I came across your collection of

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other reported sightings

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each sounding eerily similar to what I

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saw now I'm a busy college-educated

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mompreneur raising two little ones with

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a demanding career and a side business

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and don't have time for any visits from

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the men in black the government or a

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creepy mothman's seeking revenge for

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snitching on him but how is this not

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national news or a Public Safety Alert I

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literally started crying when I clicked

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on the map in that article and read a

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reported sighting from Washington Park

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in 2011 just a few hundred feet away

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from the high-rise building where I saw

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it in 2015 for reference

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Washington Park is 372 acres and this

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particular area is pretty close to the

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large pond on the southeast side of the

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park by 60th and Cottage Grove wish I

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had more to share but honestly I was too

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terrified to run outside after this

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thing to take a picture it had wings and

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didn't need them to fly I wish I could

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go back to minding my business but

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really hope you can expose what is going

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on here let me know if you have any

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owl like wing being encountered in Alsip

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Illinois I recently came across your

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article on the Chicago Owlman I along

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with another witness have seen this

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creature or one similar this was

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somewhere between 2001 to 2004 we were

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quite young at the time this was in

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Alsip Illinois right by the intersection

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of 128 place in Cicero

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I even have screenshots of when I

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casually brought up the encounter again

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in 2015 to the other witness to

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corroborate we both remember the

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encounter vividly I had only a

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silhouetted view but I can best describe

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the creature as large about the size of

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a large human man

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massive wings that it held up in a

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defensive preflight posture out from its

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sides and a human-like head that seemed

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to have no distinguishable features say

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for two very large almost glowing yellow

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owl like eyes the creatures sifted

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through the hedge bushes and came up to

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the bay window of the room we were

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occupying making loud noises it slam

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pressed its body up against the window

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its eyes staring right at us in the room

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this creature nearly took up the bay

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windows whole space and it stayed there

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once it hit the window unlike an owl who

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accidentally flew into it it was no

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regular owl much too large as the

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silhouette was massive in the eyes were

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the size of baseballs being young my

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friend and I quickly vacated the room in

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terror and alerted my sleeping father

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who immediately searched the perimeter

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of the house yet nothing was found I

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nearly tared up reading your witness

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accounts on the website as it struck

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very close to home for me as the image

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is still burned into my mind to this day

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if you need any more information don't

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hesitate to contact me at any time my

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experience has been a huge point of

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interest in my mind ever since it

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happened and I would love nothing more

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than to assist you in your investigation

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in any way la

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red-eyed winged humanoid stairs down

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witness in Park Ridge Illinois I was

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driving home north on Talcott Road at

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about 9:30 p.m. on the evening of

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Wednesday October 30th as I was

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approaching the intersection with poor

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luck place I saw something walk across

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the road at first I thought it was a

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deer as we get them every now and again

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that changed when this thing stopped in

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the middle of the road and faced me

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head-on I panicked and came to a stop

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that is when this thing spread out with

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what looked like enormous wings and

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screeched at me before bounding towards

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the woods this thing looked like a

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7-foot tall man thin and with two very

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large red eyes that were illuminated my

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headlights were on this thing and it was

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solid black it looked like it had skin

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and not feathers the wings look like

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they were attached to its back

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I was scared half out of my wits and

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there was no way in hell I was going to

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get out of my car and go after it into

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the woods I slammed my foot on the

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accelerator and took off her home where

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I told my husband about it it was his

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