Post by JoannaL on Oct 15, 2019 19:07:10 GMT -5
Giant Red-Eyed Creature Spotted in Richmond, Illinois
Ron Strickler of Phantoms & Monsters recently received the following message from a woman who identified herself as “MO”:
Friday October 5, 2019 around 10 pm my 17yo son and I were coming home through Richmond, Illinois. He wanted McDonald’s. We took the back roads home (we live in Wisconsin on border) and on Rt 173 and Broadway (I believe it’s Broadway) we both saw something very tall (6-7 feet) hunched over looking with the brightest red eyes we’ve ever seen! It looked as if it were floating or hopping. We couldn’t make out much as it was very dark, but it was not like any animal we’ve seen before! When I got home I started Googling animals and found some Mothman myth. I’m not sure what we saw but it was out of the ordinary. We take this road often but only a few times at night and had never seen this before. It was maybe 10-20 feet from our car and my son was freaking out telling me to go, so we didn’t stop. Our family thinks we’re crazy and teases us we saw a zombie, so I’d prefer this to stay anonymous. I came across your info and thought I’d share. We didn’t notice any wings but it was dark out. We both thought it was hopping like a kangaroo and now I’m curious if there are any other odd sightings in this area. – MO
Strickler contacted MO and she added that although she and her son saw no wings, the creature stooped or “hunched” over, as if there were something attached to its back and it seemed there was some sort of structure on its back. They got without around 20 feet or less as the thing hopped back toward the field and suddenly disappeared. She said the eyes were similar to two very bright lights emanating from within the creature. MO wanted to turn around and have another look, but her son was totally freaked out by the encounter and insisted she continue driving. According to the witness, she had not heard about recent spate of “mothman” sightings in and around Chicago. (The location where MO and her son spotted the creature is around 70 miles north of Chicago.)
Source: Lon Strickler, Phantoms & Monsters, October 15, 2019.