Incident #991327
Rock Creek, Ashtabula Cty, Ohio
Jun 1981
Account
Witness walking on railroad at night encountered creature and ran to his grandmother's house. It pursued him. Later he and two friends returned and encountered it again.
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 24 1981
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1981
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- midnight
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Ashtabula Cty
- Nearest Town
- Rock Creek
- Latitude
- 4140
- Longitude
- 8041
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- railroad
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 3
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- bright moonlight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, the Eastern Ohio Sasquatch, quoting Dennis Pilichis, Night Seige, quoting unnamed woman quoting her grandson.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 9 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Legs
- long
- Arms
- long
- Later Movement
- chased
- Aggressive To
- witness
- Sound
- gruntýpanting
- Odour
- strong
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Heel Width
- 4.0
- Average Depth
- 0.25
- Number of Toes
- 3
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled