BIG BIRD

Huge, scary bird sighting in Manchester

Pat Grether is a skeptical person. The 53-year-old mother and grandmother doesn't believe in ghosts or aliens. She's not crazy, nor does she drink or partake in the kinds of substances that would result in a person seeing a huge, scary bird in her backyard. Which happened last Monday morning, she said.
Her dog, a 6-month-old chow named Bear, was in the backyard of her home. It was about 10 when she heard Bear yelping and barking.
Grether went outside to see what the problem was. It sounded like something had frightened Bear, she said, something big, scary and weird.

Pat saw it as soon as she walked out the door. At first, she thought it was one of those big kites kids sometimes fly in the field. But it wasn't. It was a huge bird.
"It looked like a Cadillac," she said. By her estimation, the bird had a wingspan of 18 to 20 feet.

[In the following weeks, about a dozen people called and e-mailed to report that they, too, may have seen the giant bird that Grether reported. Story here.]