Name: Robert Charlesworth

Age: 30

Number of witnesses: 2

Location of Sighting: Ridge Farm, Illinois

Date of sighting: 11/24/2022

What you believe the creature was: Dogman

Message: “I was outside smoking a cigarette, and there was this loud scratching noise coming from the other side of the street. I walked to get closer to see what it was, and it ran before I could get too close. But what I saw was a hairy creature on all fours, very fast, with brown/black fur. It had a dog like face, but a humanoid body. It looked at me for a second before running off into the cornfield and into the woods. This was no normal dog or coyote or wolf, this was an entirely different creature that should be looked into.”

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