Incident #991348
Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio
May 1986
Account
Don Keating went to an area where a woman had been hearing screams and sounds like a baby crying and a hoot owl, and in a field found a set of 13" tracks. He returned next day with a camera and found the field freshly plowed. A week lateer the woman phoned to say that while driving to pick up her daughter at school she saw a large black creature on two legs pushing its way into the trees below the road.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 15 1986
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1986
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- 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
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- field
- Tracks
- found previously
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 1
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating letter quoting unnamed woman living 3 miles S.S. of Newcomerstown, OH.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Appearance
- glossy
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Arms Used
- for spreading foliage
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.0
- Greates Width
- 4.0
- Heel Width
- 3.5
- Track Condition
- fair
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car