Incident #991335
Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio
Apr 1984
Account
Brett Swigert, Bill Segalavich and Toby Stevens were walking near the power plant south of town, when they smelled what they thought was a dead animal. Looking around they saw the creature standing against a tree pulling leaves off it and eating them.
When
- Observation Date
- APR 28 1984
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1984
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Tuscarawas Cty
- Nearest Town
- Newcomerstown
- Latitude
- 4017
- Longitude
- 8136
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- tree
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 3
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating quoting teenagers Brett Swigert, Bell Segalavich and Toby Stevens, and the parents of two of them.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- eating
- Arms Used
- for eating
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Eating
- foliage
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- fled