Incident #991299
Oberlin, Lorain Cty, Ohio
Aug 1973
Account
The two accounts differ, but Rudy Reinhold and perhaps Jim Chandley were coon hunting with hounds. Magazine says Reinhold shone a flashlight at a noise in the hedge by a pasture, saw two glowing red eyes, heard a long scream, then the creature jumped out of the hedges, but he and the dogs crowded it, walking backward, into a cornfield. He then started back to where his friends were and the thing came after him, so they all fled. The Plain Dealer says that Reinhold and Chandley viewed the creature mainly oveer their shoulders as they ran out of a swamp. Larry Wickham looked for tracks and found indistinct ones, bipedal with a five-foot stride.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Lorain Cty
- Nearest Town
- Oberlin
- Latitude
- 4118
- Longitude
- 8212
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
Weather and light
- Lighting
- flashlight
Source
- Source
- Cleveland Magazine, Oct. 1973, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 16, 1973, quoting Rudy Reinhold and Jim Chandley, and police sergeant Larry Wickham, Oberlin, OH.
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected red
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- made a noiseýjumpedýapproached
- Sound
- scream
- Odour
- strong
- Additional Movement
- walked away
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Stride in Inches Average
- 60
- Track Condition
- poor
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- approached