Incident #991255
St. Joseph, Buchanan Cty, Missouri
May 1966
Account
Larry Lawhon, then a teenager, went with friends to a place where another youth was reported to have bumped into a hairy creature on a roadway in the woods at the northern edge of Krug Park in the northern part of St. Joseph a week before. Lawhon saw the creature on the road in front of him and ran after it. Two others at the top of the hill with him did not see it. Three down below had seen a 'large dark object' heading up in his direction. Up to that time they thought it was a human prankster, whom they intended to capture, but after finding the large smeared footprint they thought otherwise and went home.
When
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1966
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- 2 seconds
Where
- State / province
- Missouri
- County
- Buchanan Cty
- Nearest Town
- St. Joseph
- Latitude
- 3947
- Longitude
- 9450
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 6
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- 0.25
Weather and light
- Lighting
- bright moonlight
Source
- Source
- Larry B. Lawhon, 3013 St. Joseph Ave., St. Joseph, M0 64505, 816-232-8730, 28-year-old maintenance mechanic, letters and computer survey in 1976
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 9-10 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- short
- Appearance
- smooth
- Hair Colour
- black
- Hair Shorter On
- feet
- Hair Longer on
- head
- Neck Length
- short
- Shoulders
- wide
- Face Appeared
- monkeylike
- Expression
- none
- Nose
- no snout
- Torso Front
- wide
- Abdomen
- slim
- Legs
- medium
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- fled
- Speed
- slow
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- hanging
- Human Contact
- touch
- Reaction
- fled from
- Genitals
- not visible
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Heel Width
- 3.0
- Average Depth
- 0.75
- Heel
- 0.25
- Estimated Animal Weight
- 400
- Stride in Inches Average
- 36
- Number of Tracks
- 1
- Track Condition
- poor
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. huntingýoutside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- chased