Incident #991323
West Mansfield, Union Cty, Ohio
Jun 1980
Account
Donna Riegler saw creature lying hunched over on the road. It got up, turned and looked at her holding its polms out, knees bent a bit, same gesture described by Pat Poling (1320).
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 24 1980
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- late afternoon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Union Cty
- Nearest Town
- West Mansfield
- Latitude
- 4024
- Longitude
- 8333
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Akron Beacon-Journal, June 29, 1980, and others, quoting Donna Riegler, Marysville, OH.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- No hair on
- on palms
- Movement
- getting up
- Later Movement
- turned aroundýwatched observerýgestured
- Arms Action
- gesturing
- Position when first seen
- lying down
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Action on sighting
- departed slowly