Incident #991308
Atwater, Portage Cty, Ohio
Mar 1977
Account
Doug Zammon and Mike Circle, driving down River Road near State Rte 183 at 1.30 a.m., saw a huge creature with yellow reflecting eyes cross the road and go up a hill towards the woods. Back next night with friend Vern Peterson, Doug saw it again, running fast across the road.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 05 1977
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Portage Cty
- Nearest Town
- Atwater
- Latitude
- 4102
- Longitude
- 8105
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- hill
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, The Eastern Ohio Sasquatch, quoting Bigfoot, Tales of Unexplained Creatures, quoting Douglas Zammon and Mike Circle. Library newsletter, 1978, quoting two young men.
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected yellow
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- crossed roadýwent up slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Additional Movement
- ran
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car