Nighttime sighting of gray upright animal near Kewanee
Account
Late at night the witness was driving home from a second-shift job along a rural road by Mud Creek. The headlights illuminated a tall, greyish hairy figure standing on two legs and leaning on a wire fence beside a cornfield. After a few seconds the figure turned and ran on two legs into the corn toward nearby woods.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- around seven and a half feet tall
- Build src
- 325 to 350
- Hair colour src
- greyish
- Hair length src
- around four inches long
- Face src
- reminded of how a bulldog looks
- Arms src
- both upper arms bent, leaning on the fence
- Legs src
- standing on two legs
- Gait src
- ran on two legs into the cornfield
- Posture src
- leaning on the fence
- Age / size src
- had some age to it
- Other features src
- large head
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
15 September 1999
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| Time of day |
Just about 2:15 A.M.
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| Place |
Kewanee, Henry County, Illinois
Stated
BFRO report #8696
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
41.30, -89.96 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 8696 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
driving home from work
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| Witness's word for it |
something completely out of place
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
witness-provided sketch of the animal seen
photographs of the wooded area toward which the animal went
An investigator photographed the wooded area toward which the figure ran.
An investigator photographed the wooded area toward which the figure ran.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #8696 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference