It sounds like that moth-man creature in West Virginia.
I couldn’t find the complete account, but there is an interesting story about the Jersey Devil from 2004 where a mom and son get scared off from taking in their Christmas tree lights. They say it jumped 85 from their garage roof to the house roof.
Police and wildlife people looked at it the following morning and couldn’t explain the tracks.
Who knows. I love this kind of stuff. Jersey Devil stories have been around for 200 years.