Memories told of encounters experienced by a family living near Villa Grove witnessed in Douglas County, Illinois

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It was a clear cold November mid-afternoon day in 1964 me and my siblings had went outside with our mother to get fuel oil to burn in our stove while playing in the yard. We seen a upright black figure stand at a far distance in a harvested corn field. We started yelling at it. It appeared to turn towards us then turn back away. Our dog went chasing after it. We couldn't see the dog any longer but we could still see the black figure standing at a far distance in the field. Mom came over to see what we were yelling at. She also seen the black figure. She told us to quit yelling at it and get in the house right now. She seemed very frightened and scared so we went in the house, couldn't see the dog any longer but we could still see the black figure standing at a far distance in the field. A day or two after seeing the black figure in the corn field my little brother and I went outside to play. We were always playing scavenger hunt. We decided to go into the empty hog pen besid...