Incident #991112
Burlington, Coffey Cty, Kansas
1974
Account
Charmaine Schrag driving on an old road to John Redmond Reservoir, saw a creature come out of the ditch. She stopped and put high beams. It stopped in the middle of the road 15 feet from the car, and she got out and walked to the front of the car. After destimated 3 minutes it turned to the opposite ditch and went through the ditch, lifted its leg a little to cross a barbed-wire fence and walked toward a group of trees across a field. In crossing the road and ditch it looked back at her several times.
When
- Year
- 1974
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Kansas
- County
- Coffey Cty
- Nearest Town
- Burlington
- Latitude
- 3812
- Longitude
- 9558
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- ditch
- Near or/at
- road
- Super Human Action
- Stepped over barbed wire fence.
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Nearby Water
- lake
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Mrs. Charmaine Schrag, Mountridge, KS, letter to John Green
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected red
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Shorter On
- headýchest
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- getting up
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýwatched observerýturned
- Reaction
- watchedýavoided
- Additional Movement
- crossed roadýcrossed fenceýwent in fieldýentered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- approached