Incident #991254
Missouri
1947
Account
Glenn Payne said he heard from a cousin, Martin Burford, that coon hunters had chased a thing that had been killing sheep and goats, but it killed the dogs. Payne chased it with his "hog dogs" and saw in lights a giant, hairy man-shaped thing running ahead of the dogs, but it killed the dogs and then overturned his jeep. Location is given as 'Piney Ridge' which is not on a road map.
When
- Year
- 1947
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Missouri
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Unidentified clipping collected by Ron Olson, quoting Glenn Payne, 1525 Driftwood, Sedalia, Missouri.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- very large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- picked something up
- Aggressive To
- sheepýgoatsýdogsývehicle
- Object Handled
- animalývehicle
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close