Incident #991359
Plainfield, Coshocton Cty, Ohio
Jan 1987
Account
Peggey Hamilton, riding in front of several friends, saw creature run away in front of her "like a sprinter runs at a track meet." Mark Francis says creature crossed dirt road pumping arms like a sprinter.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 31 1987
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1987
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Coshocton Cty
- Nearest Town
- Plainfield
- Latitude
- 4013
- Longitude
- 8143
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, Bigfoot News, March, 1987, and Cambridge, OH, Daily Jeffersonian, Feb. 7, 1987, quoting Peggey Hamilton, 18. Also Bigfoot Co-op, Dec. '87, Mark Francis report.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- crossed road
- Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- bent
- Arms Used
- in locomotion
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- horseback
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards