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New 1970′s Illinois Giant Bird Witness Steps Forward

Crypto, Giants in Those Days, Science, Uncategorized, Unexplained Artifact | Posted by Chris Parker
Oct 10 2006

ﾃつOct 9, 2006

I spoke recently with a witness to an Illinois giant bird. She witnessed her spectacle though in 1973, rather than the more sighting-clustered year of 1977.

ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ的 am not crazy and I donﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢t go around seeing things!ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ insists Joni Grawe. The problem is that she did see something that to most people would be considered beyond the realms of believability.

Today Grawe, 49, is a group benefits specialist for a paralegal agency out of Illinois and a former realtor, Sunday school teacher and substitute teacher in the public school systems. In 1973 though, she was simply young woman who witnessed a mind-boggling sight.

At this time, Grawe was a typical sixteen-year-old farm girl from El Dara, Illinois in Pike County who enjoyed nature and would often hike the hills and woods of her familyﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s farmstead. One of these solo treks proved more terrifying than exhilarating though.

ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ的 can remember it so clearly in my mind,ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ Grawe recalled. ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ的 can still see it all today. It gives me shivers just thinking about it. Even now, I cannot believe what I saw.ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ

Grawe literally paused for a moment. I could not tell if the memories were overwhelming her or if she was having second thoughts on telling me her 33-year-old story. She assured me that she had never before told anyone outside of her family circle of her encounter.

Thankfully, she continued.

ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ的 was walking down toward Kaiser Creek. It was a beautiful summer day. I would guess mid- to late-Julyﾃ｢竄ｬﾂｦthe beans were up in the fields. I had to walk up this hill and at the top of the hill was a pondﾃ｢竄ｬ窶拌 beautiful, really secluded area. Adjacent to the hill is a ﾃ｢竄ｬﾋ徂ollerﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢ surrounded by trees. When I was nearing the hill, I heard this trumpet-like screech. It was so strange, unlike anything I had ever heard before.ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ

ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ鄭nd then I saw them, there were three of them, two big ones and a little one. I say ﾃ｢竄ｬﾋ徑ittleﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢, but there was nothing little about it! They were the biggest most frightening birds I have ever seen. The big ones were literally as big as a person standing there. Not thin like a stork, but hugeﾃ｢竄ｬ窶掖hick as a person. They looked prehistoric.

They were all gray colored, wrinkly-skinned and matted. Their beaks were not ridiculously long, not like a heronﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s, and somewhat hooked. Their heads were feathered, not bald like a buzzard.ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ

ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ典he two big ones were smart enough to roost on the ground, but the little oneﾃ｢竄ｬ窶掖he child I assumeﾃ｢竄ｬ窶捏eemed more naﾃδｯve. It tried to perch on a tree. This was a thin tree, but it had to be forty feet tall. The tree buckledﾃ｢竄ｬ窶拂ompletely bentﾃ｢竄ｬ窶掎nder the little birdﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s weight!ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ

ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ的 dropped to the ground just shaking in fear and tried to hide in the beans. I guess it worked, because they didnﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢t act like they saw me. The big ones started flapping their wings and the earth was literally reverberating from itﾃ｢竄ｬ窶掖he beans were waving! The wingspan must have been at least twelve feet. I just started praying ﾃ｢竄ｬﾋ廾h my God protect me!ﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ

Grawe remained in the beans for several more minutes until the three creaturesﾃ｢竄ｬ窶掫ith mighty, wind-creating flaps of their wingsﾃ｢竄ｬ窶拇eparted via flight. Grawe ran the whole half of a mile home in shock and terror from what she wad just witnessed. She had just become the areaﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s first observer of a ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ澱igclawﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ, a name coined by the Pantagraph newspaper out of Bloomington, Illinois (and a clear play off the term Bigfoot) some four years later.

Just one more affidavit of the enigmatic avian sightings in Illinoisﾃ｢竄ｬﾂｦof which I will no longer attempt to speculate upon as to their origin.

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