Incident #991360
Plainfield, Coshocton Cty, Ohio
Feb 1987
Account
Jill Hamilton, hearing dogs barking wildly near back door, saw horses were on other side of barn, then noticed huge hairy human-like creature standing near barn door. It was a head higher than the door, between 8 and 9 feet tall. Don Keating went there but could find no footprints. Jill and Peggey are sisters.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 03 1987
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1987
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- late 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
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- empty building
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, Bigfoot News, March, 1987, and Cambridge, OH, Daily Jeffersonian, Feb. 7, 1987, quoting Jill Hamilton, 15. Also Bigfoot Co-op, Dec. '87, Mark Francis report.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- staying still
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home