Flying creatures. United States

25 Jul 1977 10-year-old Marlon Lowe was playing near his home near the fields near the Kickapoo river (?) and near the city of Lawndale (?), D. Logan.

Suddenly from somewhere appeared in the sky and two giant birds, like the Condor. Condors are the largest flying birds in the Western hemisphere, they weigh up to 15 kg and length can reach 130 cm, but none of the Condor and in a head will not climb up to attack 10-year-old child, he's too big for them.

These birds were at first much larger, and secondly, they bumped into Martin and one bird got his claws into the clothes and immediately took to the air to a height of a few meters and carried to the side. None of the Condor couldn't do that because their legs are simply not equipped to pick up something and hold it in flight.

The boy screamed loudly and his noise ran to his mother Ruth, who saw the birds holding her son's twitching in the air, cried even more. From this noise, the bird opened her claws, and the boy fell to the ground. Both birds immediately flew away.

In addition to the mother, Martin the incident saw six other people and then they described him the same way. Bird had dark feathers and a white ring of feathers around the head, like the condors, neck they were long, and the beak has reached a length of 6 inches (15 cm) was bent at the end. The birds on the paws had three toes in front and one in back.

When this case began to write in the media, poor Marlon got in school said "Boy bird" and ridiculed him even classmates. And the boy's mother even once found a dead pigeon on my front porch, someone tossed it to her as a joke.

However, the boy's parents assured everyone that all very seriously and even hired several hunters to they searched all in the area of the Kickapoo river and hunted the giant birds. However, they did not found a local game warden then called Ruth a liar.

"Marlon weighs 56 pounds (25 kg) and a height of nearly 4 feet, and we found out that the bird had carried him through the air at a distance of 35 feet (10 meters). And our St. Bernard dog not barking, although he always barks at all," said Ruth Lowe.

Since years there have been several incidents of mysterious giant birds of Illinois and the discovery channel took about them a documentary film. And in 2012, the researcher Heart Strickler sent a letter from a man who claimed that he lived in the area in 1977 and saw two huge birds two days before they attacked Marlon Lowe. And then saw them again a year later.

"I and some of my friends the following spring went to the March from Washington Park to the dam on the river, String a Scream and when we came back, we saw over our heads flew two huge birds. They were flying at an altitude of approximately 10 feet (3 meters), that is very very low, and then we found some unusual prints near the Creek. I never told anyone about this, but I wanted to do it because of the endless ridicule of Martin and his family."

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