Franklin County, Illinois

Near Orient

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Franklin County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

August 2009

I used to live in a rural town called Orient Illinois. There is only about 240 people living in the town. I was driving up Chicago Avenue to get to my house, Its a rural road that is paved and has a few homes on it but for the most part any area in Orient is the country. The neighbor boy was seated in the front seat with me and my 2 daughters were in the back seat. My daughters said they had seen it also but I don't know for sure because we were on a hill going upwards and they were pretty small in height, so I will tell you for sure the boy and I have seen it. We were going really slow because of deer at night, so while me and the boy we conversing on and off there from my side of the road comes a maybe 7 foot creature with the most beautiful chestnut long hair that covered all of its body just jogging across the front of my car crossing over the headlights. It used no effort to cross but it sure did cover allot of land in a very short time. Me and the boy watched it cross the car and...

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Franklin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a daylight sighting along railroad tracks east of Plumfield

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September 1977

Franklin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Family has daylight sighting while fishing on Rend Lake

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May 2012

Franklin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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August 1979

Washington County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

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March 1969

Bucks County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

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Skagit County Washington (Class A) BFRO

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Kanawha County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

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January 1990

Sangamon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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September 2017

Madison County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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April 2009

Bond County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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October 2006

Madison County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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June 2006