CAIRO'S "WHITE MONSTER" - Cairo, Illinois. On the evening of Tuesday, July 25th, 1972 (at approximately 7:30 p.m.) a Cairo native by the name of LeRoy Summers allegedly encountered a strange creature while jogging near the Ohio River levee. Summers reported to Cairo Police that he saw a "10-foot tall, hairy creature" standing near a brick building by the levee, in the area between 17th and 28th streets. He further described, to officers, that the enormous monster was "white with a reddish band" around it's mid-section and that the two-legged "Bigfoot creature" had a "large head." Summers, frightened by the bizarre cryptid, promptly turned around and jogged in the opposite direction at a quickened pace - according to his account. Police investigated the incident, and the local media reported the encounter, but no evidence was gathered and no further reports were forthcoming. A string of encounters of "white" or "albino" Bigfoot creatures would permeate area towns further north (and dominate local media reports) in the following years, but the connection to the "Cairo Cryptid" seems unclear. The "White Monster of Cairo" still remains a mystery. Photo by Michael Huntington - March, 2017. #StrangeTravels #MichaelHuntington #HuntingtonAdventures #HuntingtonFamily #AlbinoBigfoot #WhiteBigfoot #IllinoisBigfoot #CairoBigfoot #CairoWhiteMonster #WhiteMonsterOfCairo #CairoCryptid #Cryptid #Bigfoot #Cryptotourism #CairoIllinois (at Cairo, Illinois)
