Editing Phantom kangaroo (section)

==United States==
In 1934, near [[South Pittsburg, Tennessee|South Pittsburg]], [[Tennessee]], an atypical kangaroo or "kangaroo-like beast" was reported by several witnesses over a five-day period,<ref name="Fort1984">{{cite book|last=Fort|first=Charles|title=The Info Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVklAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=International Fortean Organization|page=5}}</ref> and to have killed and partially devoured several animals, including ducks, geese, a German Shepherd and other dogs.<ref name=Clark1998>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Jerome |title=Unexplained: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences and Puzzling Physical Phenomena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsvTpBvUgrYC&pg=PA392|date=1 November 1998|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-266-1|pages=392–395}}</ref><ref name=Coleman2007>{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=Loren|title=Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2UlKsvrX60C&pg=PT149|date=24 April 2007|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=978-1-4165-3944-5|pages=149–150}}</ref> Kangaroos are typically unaggressive and vegetarian.<ref name=Clark1998/> A witness described the animal as looking "like a large kangaroo, running and leaping across a field."<ref name=Clark1998/> A search party followed the animal's tracks to a mountainside cave where they stopped.<ref name=Coleman2007/> The animal was never found, and national news coverage drew widespread ridicule.<ref name=Clark1998/>

In 1974, in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], two Chicago police officers were called to investigate a report that a kangaroo was standing in someone's porch. After a brief search, the officers located the animal in an alleyway, but were unable to capture it.<ref name=clark1/> Over the next month, numerous kangaroo sightings were reported in [[Illinois]] and the neighbouring states of [[Indiana]] and [[Wisconsin]], with timing suggesting more than one animal if reports were accurate.<ref name=clark1/><ref name=Coleman2007/> A kangaroo was seen the next day by a paperboy, the next week in [[Forest Preserve District of Cook County#Region 3: North Cook County|Schiller Woods]], Illinois, and the week after that just outside [[Plano, Illinois|Plano]], Illinois, reported by a police officer who said it jumped eight feet from a field into the road. Thirty minutes later, a kangaroo was reported back in Chicago, then reported on the following three days in the surrounding countryside. A few days later, there were a rash of sightings in [[Indiana]]. Reports ceased about a month after the original story.<ref name=Coleman2007/>

In 1978, in [[Menomonee Falls]], [[Wisconsin]], two men photographed a large kangaroo beside the highway.<ref name=clark1/> Author [[Loren Coleman]], described as the "leading authority on North American kangaroo sightings", suggested the animal looked like a [[Bennett's wallaby]].

In 2013, in [[Oklahoma]], a kangaroo was reportedly recorded by hunters in a field.<ref name=mckinnon2013>{{cite news | title=Oklahoma hunter catches kangaroo on camera | date=24 December 2013 | last=McKinnon | first=Chris | work=News 9 | location=Oklahoma | publisher=World Now and KWTV | url=http://www.news9.com/story/24299464/oklahoma-hunter-catches-kangaroo-on-camera | access-date=25 December 2013}}</ref> The video was published on the website [[YouTube]], and prompted speculation that the animal may be a pet kangaroo who went missing in the state just over a year earlier.<ref name=mckinnon2013/><ref>{{cite news | title=The search for Lucy Sparkles | work=News 12 | last=McLinden | first=Scott | date=30 November 2012 | publisher=Gray Television, Inc. | url=http://www.kxii.com/news/headlines/The-search-for-Lucy-Sparkles-181641051.html | access-date=25 December 2013 }}</ref>

Also in 2013, ''[[The Ridgefield Press]]'' reported that a motorist in [[North Salem, New York]] captured on video what he thought was a kangaroo, and published the video on their website.<ref name=ridgefield2013>{{cite news | url=http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/19530/ridgefielder-spots-kangaroo-on-route-116/ | work=The Ridgefield Press | title=Ridgefielder spots 'kangaroo' on Route 116 | date=8 July 2013 | access-date=29 March 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331025622/http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/19530/ridgefielder-spots-kangaroo-on-route-116/ | archive-date=31 March 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The newspaper noted that escaped wallabies, smaller than kangaroos, were known in [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]], which encompasses North Salem.<ref name=ridgefield2013/> Several people in the county had kept wallabies as pets.<ref name=ridgefield2013/>