In the summer of 2003, Pastor Swope saw this cryptid bird as he was driving to a graveyard near Lake Erie, Pennsylvania:

He shared the story with me last year (for possible inclusion in Jacob Covey’s Beasts!: Book Two), but just publicly released the details for the first time here.

Swope said, “It was brown and the feathers had the same sheen as a pigeon’s. It was about double the size of a pigeon though, and had a bright orange beak. I also noticed that it had no tail feathers whatsoever.”