Incident #991373
Heath, Licking Cty, Ohio
Jul 1988
Account
Unnamed boy was at Scout camp near Heath, Ohio, where they found a fox in the woods with its tail torn off, and humanlike 15 1/2-inch footprints in soft dirt around it. In the evening there was low-pitch screaming from the swamp and later the sound of trees being shaken or broken. Informant sitting at campfire saw at the shadow line a form from the shoulders up. Estimated height 7 1/2 to 8 ft.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 28 1988
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1988
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Licking Cty
- Nearest Town
- Heath
- Latitude
- 4002
- Longitude
- 8227
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- at
- Terrain Object
- camp
- Near or/at
- fire
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- woodsýswamp
Weather and light
- Lighting
- firelight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, The Eastern Ohio Sasquatch, quoting 11-year-old boy from Dover, OH.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observerýmade a noise
- Aggressive To
- fox
- Object Handled
- animal
- Sound
- screamýother
- Human Contact
- watch
- Reaction
- watched
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.5
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping
- Closest horizontal distance
- close