The Strangest Creatures of the Early 1970s

In the early 1970s, a group of teenagers in Peoria noticed unusual footprints around an abandoned house. The teens described a creature that measured anywhere from 8 to 12 feet tall and stood on two legs like a human but covered entirely in pale fur or hair. One town even declared that all monster sightings needed to be accompanied by a breathalyzer test. And today, we're not quite sure what it was that people were spotting all over the central and southern Illinois area back in the 1970s.