ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

On This Day in Weird, February 15...

1974: Two friends on a sleepover at one girl's house in Fayette County, Illinois, rise at 5:00 a.m. and see "a huge black thing squatting down looking for something in the snow" outside the bedroom window, roughly three feet from the house. As it rose, the biped appeared to be some eight feet tall, compared in size to the girls' window, which was three feet above ground. Reporting it to the GCBRO website 31 years later, one girl wrote: "My monster was covered in short black hair everywhere but the face, and its eyes were red." It fled when she cried out for help, rousing her brother. They went outside but found no tracks or other evidence in the drifting snow.