Hello and welcome to the program UFO morning and this episode,
we're talking about the infield monster, that's correct, the
infield monster. Now this definitely reaches
levels of high strangeness, it's a story about a Cryptid
sighting, back in 1973 and in filled Illinois pronounced Iain
field2. The article comes to us from
UFO. Inside.com dated May 2nd 2021
title says an alien Adam. Sonic entity or or a horrific
Beast. The infield monster incident.
This is one of these things where we're just not quite sure
what this thing is definitely falls.
Under the Cryptid category, I believe it says the events of
the 25th of April 1973 and infill, Illinois are still the
subject of investigation and Fascination today almost a half
a century after they occurred, multiple residents witnessed a
strange Beast like creature in. Around the community one that
was monstrous to look at and seemingly possess an ability to
move with agility and as well as leap remarkable distances as an
illustration of this saying, hear what?
The guy thought he saw. Looks like something out of a
horror movie. I'll put the link at the buy me
a coffee website, like I normally do.
And of course, as always, shout out to the folks that support
the program through there. And also through Spotify, it
says was this strange creature a strange.
Bigfoot type Beast or might it have been a previously unseen
and unknown animal that it along called the region home or might
it have been extraterrestrial or entity From Another Dimension.
The truth is, all these decades later.
Researchers and investigators are no closer, are no closer to
solving the mystery of the infill monster.
However, it still continues to Fascinate people with an
interest in such matters today. The incident is perhaps one of
the best documented encounters with an apparent Cryptid
creature of some And as we shall see another case that appears at
first, to be an isolated run of sightings, but just might share
connections with other seemingly isolated cases involving very
similar creatures. You know, I have to want to look
at these cases like this and fill monster, even a lot of
these Bigfoot, sightings they seem more and more to me to be
some sort of it, interdimensional entity crossing
over because the way they, the way they just appear out of
nowhere, frequently disappear to know.
We're and seem to be impervious to gunshots or other other means
of attack. It says, most retellings of the
account begin on the evening of the 25th of April. 1973 at
around 9 p.m. when ten-year-old Gregor was in his backyard.
Watching the Stars overhead every now and then he would make
an attempt to catch one of the fireflies darting about him.
It was as he was doing this. In fact, when the evening took a
drastic and strange, Learn there in front of him, was what he
would later described his parents as a monster
approximately four to five feet tall with slimy, gray, skin, and
glowing red eyes. What's more this strange?
Beast had three legs as well as Tiny arms with sharp razor like
claws. The monsters creature step
toward Greg, one of its legs even making contact with young
boys foot and tearing his tennis shoe.
It was then when Greg Turned and ran in Terror towards the house.
Now you can imagine this ten-year-old kids, he's a
three-legged monster with razor-sharp claws.
On his front legs, it almost looks like some sort of deformed
T-Rex but they still stration, he burst through the front door
immediately, informing his parents.
What had just what he just seen concern, but uncertain of what
they should make of her son's claims he wasn't known to invent
such wild Stories. The girls called the police
officers arrived, a short time later and conducted a thorough
search around the property. However They could find nothing.
There are no clues to suggest that anything had been there.
Unbeknown to the garish, their neighbors.
The McDaniels had returned home to similar claims of a monster
like beasts around 3:30 eggs and counter around 9:30.
P.m. according to Henry McDaniel their two children claimed, a
thing had tried to enter the house once through the front
door. And another time through the
window, mounted air conditioner. What's more is a too excited and
frightened children? Were telling their parents of
the attempted entry, Henry heard a strange scratching coming from
the front door. So now we have two reports by
two different white three, different children actually, two
different locations, two different times.
Saying the same thing, this bizarre three-legged
three-legged, lizard type monster with Grace can and
razor-sharp claws on its front appendages, it says still
listening to his children. Although seemingly not making
the connection that the scratching could be result of
the be serviced driving Henry. Went to the front door to open
it upon doing. So, he found himself face to
face with the creature. His Golden Tulip after bring
himself to his senses, he slammed the door shut and
stepped away from it. He immediately reached for his
22 pistol and grabbed a flashlight.
He made his way to the back door.
Anticipating the Beast would seek another Point entry into
their home. But when he opened the door, the
creature was indeed there in front of him without wasting any
time, you open fire and the creature however, much to his
horror. The bullets appeared in
effective even though he was almost certain, he had hit the
Beast, he would state that it hissed like a wildcat before
retreating away in. The distance he would further
state it moved with a quote hopping motion, three of which
covered in approximate 75 feet. Now, it's got a picture of This
Old House here from 1973 Pretty modest place, you know, they
seem like Working Class People. I can't imagine why they would
just make up the story. Secondly, the guy fired on the
same point blank with his handgun.
Now, admittedly, a 22 caliber is a small-caliber handgun but
still quite effective enough to kill a person or, you know, even
large animal. So the fact that he shot into
the same point blank and all it did was hiss Well, I find that
very strange, but that's the sort of story that we hear over
and over again. When people fire on these
Cryptids, he would later describe the terrifying
creatures, having three legs, and short body with two little
short arms. Furthermore, it had two pink
eyes as big as flashlights and had a grayish color skin.
He would also state that it was around four and a half feet
tall. Light the Garrett's Henry would
immediately telephone the local police he would though he would
though state that he had just had an Counter with a monster
from outer space. Well, You know, you have to
understand. This is this is his Paradigm.
I mean, this is not that long after the moon landings, this
guy is looking at the situation and saying, wow, something this
odd must have came from outer space.
Well, I mean, what else would you think a short time later?
The Illinois, State Troopers arrived at the McDaniels how
home they would immediately go about searching the area around
the house. This time, unlike the police
search of the Garrett property, the state troopers would
discover several strings. Footprints.
They were similar to that of a dog's only.
They had six toe pads, instead of, for once more, the layout of
the footprints appeared to suggest, whatever had made it
had three legs now, that's weird.
He says it hopped but you got to Wonder, Man, how would that
third leg come into play? Further research?
Further searches of the house itself, did indeed reveal
several strange, and scratch marks.
However, despite the evidence seemingly corroborating, the
McDaniel Eagles version of events.
There was little, the state troopers could do well, some
even comparing skeptical things would settle down for a little
over a week with no further investigations, of sightings of
strange beasts that, that was about to change.
It says, on the early hours of the 6th of May, the first one
happened in April, this is May 6 at around 3:00, 3:00 a.m. the
residence of the McDaniel household were about to
experience another unnerving. A counter Henry, was awoken
first by rampant barking of the neighbors dogs.
Sensing something was wrong. He quickly got out of bed, reach
for his gun and made his way to the front door.
He opened it. And once more saw the beastly
creature, he had witnessed several days earlier.
This time, it was further away. Casually moving along the
railroad tracks ran past her property Henry.
Watched it for several minutes deciding against any action,
given the bullets and seemingly had little effect last time.
After a short, while the creature showed the same, Speedy
hopping ability and disappeared into the distance, several more
days, followed without any further sightings of the
apparent monster. However, during this time news
of the incident quickly, spread around the community and
ultimately much further. So much so that people begin to
arrive in town with hopes of seeing the strange creature for
themselves. What's more, many news reporters
and even scientists eager to study at potentially unknown
creature. Also made the journey to infill,
you know, this is back in 1973 long before the internet
happened. So people actually had to go
where go places to learn things. In fact, such was the attention
and subsequent temporary increased population of the town
that the sheriff of Wight County even threatened to arrest Henry.
If he Continue to speak of such incidents.
And well, here you go. You've got this.
Experiencer is whole family. Actually, we're experienced has
what eyewitnesses to this strange monster of a creature?
He talks about it. That's the natural thing to do.
It looks like the sheriff there went on some kind of a power
trip and threatened to arrest. The guy several arrests were
actually made although these were Hunters of the Beast who
had opened fire on what they thought was the creature and
were consequently charged with being a threat to Public Safety.
It quickly became apparent to local law enforcement that the
attention of so many people in the town was as much of a safety
issue as the apparent monster might be.
This is an interesting point to note is several other cases of
strange, Paranormal Activity, have ultimately been washed away
as a hoax or left uninvestigated by authorities due to the
attention of such events. Bring for example the bizarre
goings-on during the Bridgeport Bridgeport Poltergeist case
authorities declared it as a hoax due to the increased crowds
outside the property. We might also recall the strange
events known as The Mad Gasser of man.
Tune at Mattoon where the increased attention on the town,
for force them to distance themselves from the case, and
each of those cases, then it was the rampant, attention and focus
of so many people that Became a concern to the authorities.
This certainly appeared to be the case in Enfield.
Honestly I think sometimes these guys just get used to doing a
job, that doesn't take that much effort and then when something
out of the ordinary like this happens and you got a bunch of
people coming into town, they don't like to deal with the
extra work and because these individuals are lazy by Nature.
The easiest thing to do is just start arresting people.
Now, some of these guys that were running around out in the
timber firing guns, off willy-nilly, yeah, probably
should not be doing that but you get a very clear picture of the
dichotomy of here, how we approach.
This thing. One side says, wow, this is
really bizarre. Let's talk about what happened
the other side says, no, let's start arresting people.
Let's not talk about what happened.
It says, there were those sightings of the strange beast
from these visitors that didn't result in arrest, one of, which
is perhaps the last sighting of the Beast.
That of wwk, I radio news director, Rick rainbow, he would
claim to have witnessed the Monstrous creature, a short
distance away from the McDaniel home near an abandoned property.
He would describe the creature as a gray, a tape like this
posture, and approximately, five feet, tall.
Reports also suggest that rainbow even managed to record
the strange and chilling. Screams of the creature on audio
tape. However, this recording has not
been made available to the public.
Although several researchers investigators at the time
claimed to have heard the recording.
There you go, they start to get some really powerful evidence.
In the first thing that happens is that evidence is contain
seems like controlled the chilling, screams and shrieks.
So, heard by many people in the town, over the following nights,
then they, suddenly stop the creature.
It seemed whatever it was Advantage.
Does immediately as it arrived. Of course, what it was, where it
came from or indeed, where it went was, and still is a
complete mystery, then it goes on and says the following year
the, the, the year following the incidents, rather one of the
investigators in the area during that time was Loren Coleman, he
would write in the July edition, of Fate magazine and article
titled swamp slobs invade Illinois.
Oi of some of his findings of the sightings he had.
For example, heard the recordings made by Rainbow for
herself and the article Coleman would write that the strange
creatures, whatever, they wore were so far beyond our
understanding that. It's no wonder stories about
them exciting. However, the fact that so many
sightings of the strange abominable swamp slobs boy, what
a mouthful. Well, reported throughout the
entire Southern Illinois area combined with the obvious
sincerity. Of many of those who made such
reports very much suggested, at least the possibility that
something awfully strange is going on in the back Waters of
America. Coleman would then relay the
account of just such a sighting of the strange creature in the
Murfreesboro region of the state.
The first such sighting occurred on June 25th A little after
midnight while parking on a boat ramp near the Big Muddy River.
Randy Needham and Judy Johnson heard a bizarre and unnerving
shriek rang out a cry. They would describe as about
three times as loud as a bobcat only deeper.
And if you've ever heard of bobcat scream, they're really
something so I can imagine what this thing was.
However, before they could contemplate, the cry, much more,
they suddenly noticed a strange upright creature, bounding
toward them, they watch for a moment or two as a 7-foot.
White hair creature. Got to around 20 feet from them
before they brought the car to life and made their way from the
scene, they would head straight to the police station and
Report. The incident to police officers
would attend the scene of the siding and did indeed discover
strange large footprints in the mud.
They would note how the footprints were erratic and that
no two are the same distance. Apart is an OTA speculation.
Might these Footprints suggest to creature might have had three
legs as opposed to two is infill creature appeared to have well,
Maybe there may be the sayings aren't using the normal.
Look, emotional walking, maybe these things are levitating
somehow. I don't know, one of the
officers, Mary Linsley agreed to retrieve a camera so they could
photograph The Impressions. You other.
Jimmy Nash went with Randy and Judy to fall to print pants to
follow the footprints. It was as they were doing.
So that the most incredible shriek they had ever heard rang
out. They quickly realize the strange
Beast. Light creature was only about a
hundred yards away hidden in The Woodlands.
They They quickly backed away from the area and return to the
police car. Incidentally, later that night
police officers would attempt to locate the reason behind a
strange. Splashing sound in the area
thinking it must be linked to the strange sighting.
However, they were unable to uncover the source of the noise
the following night, the other creature would return again.
This time at a little after 10:00 p.m. the witness on this
occasion was four year old Christian Barrel who would rush
to his parents, claiming that he had seen a big white ghost in
the yard They would insist that, he must be mistaken and
dismissed his claims. However, around 10:30 p.m. a
similar sighting came to the light from the next door.
Neighbors ran, decrease and Cheryl Ray.
It was as Randy and Cheryl were sitting on their back porch,
that they suddenly noticed, something moving in the trees on
their property. Cheryl would even later claimed
to have seen glowing pink eyes watching them.
And what's more the globe was not a result of any kind of
reflection instead there were going from their own accord.
That aside the description, the pair of gave of the creature,
was almost identical to that witness the previous evening
after several moments, whatever it was, or creature retreated
into the Woodland and disappeared as it made its way
from the Perry continue to shriek wildly.
The police were called and arrived a short time later to
investigate the scene, like the previous evening, they found
evidence of the creatures presence this time as well as
several Footprints. They also discovered crushed
vegetation where the creature had obviously forced his way
through. They would decide Attempt to
follow the trail officer. Nash was again, one of the
officers who responded to the call with him?
Was officer Ronald man. Warren after discovering that
makeshift pathway according to their police report.
Officer Jerry Nellis was asked to the scene to see if the dog
would track the creature upon reaching the scene.
The German Shepherd, did indeed begin.
Tracking the creature leading officers along, what appeared to
be its track. Now you should notice that every
now and then a strange is slime, was visible along the Route
According to the report Officer Nelson picked up some of the
Slime to examine it. When he rubbed it between his
fingers that let the black coloring behind.
Furthermore, the officers noticed that the dog would
hesitate slightly before passing each of these traces of slime.
Well, this is also something that we've heard, you know,
about these things that they have, certainly these entities
have this either the sulfur smell or they've got some sort
of residue coming off them or the Slime.
Now they got a picture here and Article looks to me like a
Bigfoot that somebody has its artist rendering.
It says of what somebody perceive the same as so you
basically, you have two different perception of this
one. Is this kind of reptilian type
creature four and a half five foot tall gray color skin
three-legged add, the arms are short arms almost like a t-rex
with very razor-sharp claws. Coming off them sharp enough.
In fact, that they left visible marks on the inside.
One house, where the guy opened the door up, then the second
monster that seems like it. Shut up about the same time was
moral. We think I was a Bigfoot
monster, you know, 7 foot tall, hairy looking creature drip and
slam off of it, but both of them making these very strange
screaming sound. They described it as a sound of
a bobcat screaming. Now if you've ever heard a
bobcat, a lot of people will describe that as a as a woman.
Screaming bloody murder, they have is a very haunting If you
ever hear one of these things, and as one couple said, it was
three times as bad as that. So that's passed something.
Now it says the article goes on and says ultimately the dog
would lead the officers to a heavily wooded area near a small
pond. The area though was much too
thick to negotiate Nellis return.
The police dog to the car temporarily while they searched
the vegetation, a little closer fighting nothin else.
Retrieved the police dog once more, and then proceeded to
search the regional further mainly to the south of this
small pond. They would ultimately find
themselves near a tab. Abandoned barn and decide to
send the police dog inside. However, within moments of the
highly trained, K9 entering the abandoned building it
immediately ran out officer. Daniel Ellis was dumbstruck it
such Behavior given. It was specifically trained to
search buildings when he and Ash search, the more in themselves,
they discovered nothing of Interest inside.
They would suspend their search a short time later according to
the Fate magazine article. There were several further
sightings over the following weeks.
For example, several Carnival workers claim.
They saw the strange creature. Seemingly watching their
Shetland ponies during the Fourth of July celebrations.
Now, if you're younger, you may not remember how common it was
back in the 70s and even 80s for these traveling carnivals to
come around town, and, of course, they all had pony rides.
And so, you can just imagine these Carnival workers.
They're usually a pretty, pretty rough-and-tumble crowd sleeping
there at night. With their ponies is little, you
know, short stocky Shetland ponies, who Ooh, can I can tell
you, by the way, be quite tough. And this thing is stocking them.
It size them up for lunch. No doubt several nights later.
A local moment, heard a sudden piercing scream that appeared to
come from one of the out buildings on our farm.
When the authorities were pressed for comment on the
strange reports and sightings, according to Coleman's article,
they had to admit, they didn't know according to police chief
Toby Berber. They didn't know what the
creature was, but we do believe he says, but we do believe what
these people saw. Real, he would go on to state
that these are good, honest people and that they aren't
seeing something and the same article Coleman goes on to note
that another very similar sighting occurred, several
months later on the evening of the 16th of October in the small
town of st. Joseph on the night in question
for teenagers driving their car. When they believe they spotted a
campfire in your upcoming bridge and pulled over to investigate.
Upon leaving the vehicle. One of the boys struck a match
to see better. However the light revealed them
that they were only a short distance away from a 5-foot tall
gorilla-like creature. The immediately got back inside
the vehicle sped away. One of the teenagers built on
can was later quoted in Champaign-Urbana career.
As saying quote, I wondered if I was nuts or something, when you
first contemplated, what he was saying, whatever it was the 14
years knew they had seen something truly strange.
Now, I find it interesting that these young guys what they saw
was about the same size as what was first spotted about five
foot tall, but they didn't describe it as being lizard-like
or you know, three-legged dinosaur type creature.
They described it as gorilla like almost.
Like we would think I was a possible Bigfoot sighting and
they didn't say, seven-foot-tall either.
I said five foot, it's almost like whatever this thing is, it
could be, it could be multiple creatures, but it's almost seems
like whatever it is. It's some kind of Shapeshifter
seems lost seems disoriented. It kind of takes takes me back
to that notion that maybe these things are some sort of creature
from where they come from, they're being taken here dumped,
you know, rehomed, I guess you could say, whether they were a
criminal, you know, or an outcast or whatever, it's almost
like they're being brought to Earth and Earth is some sort of
print, Prison Planet where they just dump these things off at.
That's what it seems like sometimes.
And then somehow after, after their Here for a while they're
able to blend in, I don't know, but it's very weird.
It says might there have been a connection to the sightings of
the infill monster only weeks earlier, admittedly, some of the
descriptions of the creatures are decidedly different, might
there be than a connection to be found in the location self.
Perhaps one that is home to all manner of strange beasts.
And creatures one thing that Coleman asked in the article is,
what was the mysterious light that the boys took to be a
campfire? This is some potential
explanations for it. Indeed, the connections to these
strange creatures is something we will come back to verify
shortly. It says, and it's got a video
here, you can watch and then below it, it says the article
goes on and says 1978 investigation of the install of
the infield monster case. Let's be 5 years later.
It says, before we examine some further similar cases to the
infield monster sightings, we might do well to quickly examine
and investigation, carried out 1978.
That by several researches, some of their findings are certainly
interesting. They managed to only find three
of the witnesses, who claimed it actually seen the creature for
themselves. This despite the many sightings
on record. Even those three people would
claim that their accounts were largely blown up, or out of
proportion by the media, as well as by local gossip.
It appeared in the investigators that many other reports in
retrospect were claims that snow balled, around the local
community with each telling There are.
Also, there was also the concern that there were very few
pictures taken at the footprints.
The scratches Raven Greg's tennis shoes, that the Beast,
allegedly tore, and while hysteria and fear might account
for this in certain arms. Those with thus, kept it
certainly arms those with a skeptical view of the parent
incidents. Well, you know, when the
sheriff's going around arresting people that out investigating,
it accusing them at least even if they were where they wanted,
don't know. But saying, hey, they're
discharging your firearms and I He's arresting those people.
If he's a threatening to arrest the first guide, reported the
sighting, and people might very well have been intimidated by
it. And five years later wasn't that
far away if people just may have been too afraid to talk about
it, he says there are also those who believe the sightings at
least two additional ones might have been might have contain
certain elements of truth but with an exaggerated in order to
attract enthusiasts and essentially tourist.
Well what Good's it going to do for 10 year old kid to attract a
tourist. We might also note.
If this was the case, it wasn't a view shared by the police
chief. We threaten to arrest Henry
McDaniel if you continue to speak of the creature of
infinite, Build. However, perhaps the main
detailed investigation is certainly want to note a
credibility to the case where the sightings of the two
neighbors, who, as we might recall, gave statements
describing the exact same creature, without knowing of the
others encounter. I don't know.
I'm not sure what, when you need after that.
You've got two people better neighbors, haven't talked to
each other. Both in the same geographical
locations, 1973, no cell phones to call back and forth on and
they're both told police, they saw the same thing, they're
given, Independently verifying each other story.
That's pretty powerful. This is, it is also perhaps
worth noting that the sightings of the creature of infield have
not been reported. Since we might suspect if a hoax
based on wanting to attract tourism was behind the majority
of the sightings that some further orchestrated incidents
might have taken place. Yeah, that seems to be a seems
to be a debunker thing. Gets thrown out there a lot.
When something like this happens, it not so much anymore
because people travel so much of X and the 70s, and even 80s and
And you know before then if something like this were to
happen. Yeah.
You might have a newspaper or a local business, try to exploit
it. I mean, even today they have
these festivals and stuff. But honestly, you have to look
at the timeline of events. You had these independent
sightings. They were reported right away.
They were independently reported seeing the same thing
independently. Reported seeing the same thing
and then you had recurrent. After that and then they just
disappeared. So, whatever this thing was, it
seems like I just showed up here, it seems like it was
disoriented distressed. I don't know if it was looking
for shelter or what it was doing.
It's kind of a really kind of a disturbing scenario to think
that this thing was some sort of entity that was lost and what
would be for it? Its own living hell.
Is this wandering around here in this geographical area trying to
make contact with somebody? But being of such a frightening
appearance. It's that nobody wanted anything
to do with it, and that is definitely, a strange case of
the infield, monster that occurred there back on April and
actually, in the May of 1973 and infield Illinois.
Until next time, this is UFO morning over and out.
It's that nobody wanted anything to do with it, and that is
definitely, a strange case of the infield, monster that
occurred there back on April and actually, in the May of 1973 and
infield Illinois. Until next time, this is UFO
morning over and out.