Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    October 1985
 

TIME:     right at daylight
 

LOCATION:   Bond County,  Illinois
 

TERRAIN:    Big rocky wooded hills alongside a creek
 

OBSERVED:    a friend of mine went in to his stand before daylight to hunt deer. he said after he was in his deer stand for about 10 minutes (still dark) something that sounded like a man walking walked in the same way he did and walked right past his stand about 50 yards past. it started what sounded like beating on it's chest and got evidently very mad and started tearing up trees and stuff. it was
growling and stuff making mad sounds. when the horizon in the east just started to show it ran down towards the creek in about 10 leaps estimated speed about 40 miles per hour or faster. no foot prints no hair just this freaky ordeal. thought maybe someone should know. i am the only outsider my friend has ever told of this.
 

Activities of Witness:   Hunting
 

Description of Creature:  N/A
 

Other Notes:   The lady that owns the property told me that in 1967 she and her now dead husband came home at about dark in the
summer time and heard the most terrifying scream and screaming coming from those woods. she is familiar with panthers and such and also honey bears too. this thing scared them so bad that they locked all doors and windows and armed themselves. stayed up all night but it was gone or either shut up.

Another gentleman who is now deceased mentioned something of this nature in the same area. i think his wife saw it but i never did ask. she is still alive by the way. i know for sure this guy shot at it cause i guess it killed his dog. i think maybe this occurred in the summer of 1988.
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.

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