Case file · Cryptid
Chicago 'Mothman' reports
Through 2017 a Fortean blogger, Lon Strickler, collected 55 online reports of a large winged figure seen around Chicago, many near the lakefront, and the press dubbed it the Chicago Mothman.
2017 CE · 41.90, -87.62 · status: claim
The sceptical view
University of Chicago psychologist David Gallo called the compilation 'a selective sample': only people already drawn to a paranormal website sent reports, so it cannot show how often anything unusual was seen.