Incident #991318
Gibsonville, Hocking Cty, Ohio
Dec 1978
Account
Dennis Zunk said his friend was sitting under a tree in a pine thicket when a big creature walked through. He thought it was a man in a fur coat until it reached up and ripped a limb of the side of a tree and proceded to eat something that it would tear off the limb and inspect before putting it in its mouth. Then there was a squeal behind him and the thing fled, very fast. He whirled and saw something else running through the trees, too fast to be sure what it was. The same morning another hunter saw something similar several miles farther along the ridge.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 01 1978
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Hocking Cty
- Nearest Town
- Gibsonville
- Latitude
- 3930
- Longitude
- 8235
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Super Human Action
- Ripped limb off tree to eat something.
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Dennis Zunk, 9302 Hetrick Rd., Oak Harbor, OH, quoting a friend.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark red brown
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýhandled somethingýfled
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- tree
- Arms Action
- reaching
- Arms Used
- for breakingýfor eating
- Object Handled
- tree
- Eating
- other
- Reaction
- fled from
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- ex fast
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- studied