Riverside police report and November 1958 press accounts, a documented California cryptid case
On the night of November 8, 1958, Charles Wetzel was driving where North Main Street crossed the Santa Ana River when something man-shaped with a glowing, fluorescent face and a beak-like mouth reared out of the riverbed brush and clawed across his windshield. He floored it, drove to the police station, and the scratches were real enough for a report. Another driver described the same thing the next night. Riverside has told the story ever since.
Santa Ana River crossing at North Main Street, Riverside
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No single published account; the story is carried locally.
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
