Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.

Leroy Summers wasn't drunk, and he wasn't crazy. He saw what he saw, and he called the police in Cairo, Illinois, to report it.

It was right near the Ohio River Levy and Carroll, he said. Just plain as day.

It was a dirty white, hairy creature standing on two legs. Had to be 10 feet tall, Le Roy said.

The police took the report, but who believed it? A trick of the light, an overactive imagination.

Could have been anything right.

And besides, no one else saw a thing.

Until the following summer, 59 miles up the road in the town of Murphy's Borough.

What happened there?

Caught the attention of people all over the country, including this kid from California.

Dear sir, we read in the Fresno B about your monster. My mom can catch it. She is good, too.

Please let her try. She loves big adventure like this one. Write her.

She is my mom, and I know how good she is.

Her name is Georgie Suppenit, where there is terror she loves to solve.

She is good with guns and knives also.

They got a small beam of light against the real. True, weird stuff.

Murphy Spurrow, Illinois is home to just under 8,000 people today, and you may not have heard of it,

but we have Murphy Spro to thank for one of our major holidays.

The town was built on land donated by Dr. John Logan and his wife,

Elizabeth Logan. Dr. Logan served in the Civil War as a volunteer general, then was elected to the Senate, where he served for a total of 12 years. He ran for vice president in 1884, and at the time

of his death in 1886, he was a strong presidential hopeful.

Dr. Logan was the most important figure in the creation of Memorial Day, which was observed

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