The Dinosaur

OK you’re not going to believe this, and I’m not sure I did at first either, because it was the last thing I would have expected them to say when they came bursting into the house tonight, but my sister and her friend are both convinced that they just saw a dinosaur prancing around in Little Italy, like a real-live one. They are serious and I am dead serious. They swear on their lives that it was a dinosaur. They think it was a baby raptor. They were driving home from visiting a friend and had stopped at a stop sign at the corner of Morgan and Taylor when a reptile-like creature with tan/orange leathery skin suddenly darted across the street. It moved quickly and bird-like, but it was definitely not a bird. It was about two or three feet high, which seems a little too small to be a raptor, so I’m

thinking that it might have been a compy. It walked on its hind legs. It just simply crossed the street and then disappeared into some bushes and appeared headed towards the UIC campus. I don’t know, man. This is a little scary and perplexing. What kind of animal on today’s earth looks like that? What else could it be, if not a dinosaur? It was definitely not a squirrel or anything mammalian or anything like they had seen before. They are not drunk, and they are both well-educated girls with absolutely no history of concocting stories. I believe them.

Below is a drawing my sister’s friend made of what she saw tonight.