Incident #991409
Carroll Cty, Ohio
Nov 1995
Account
Bow hunter watching deer in a clearing, they bolted, he saw a Bigfoot at the edge of the trees. It came out in open, 10 yards from him, saw him, screamed several times and went back in the woods. From there he heard a noise as if it was stomping its foot. He spoke to a man living close to the field, who a few days later was watching deer feeding close to his house when he heard a knocking sound from a wooded hillside opposite, like wood on wood. It was answered from another slope closer to the house, then there was a short growling roar from the first hill and the deer bolted to the trees where the second knocks came from. Next day the man found 14 x 6-inch footprints in mud on the edge of a dirt road, and farther along found three deer carcasses, each with at least one leg violently twisted, and bellies torn open, intestines pulled out and left in a pile. Neighbours noticed similar knockings from the woods, until the deer left the area, when the knocking stopped.
When
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1995
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Carroll Cty
- Latitude
- 4035
- Longitude
- 8105
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- field
- Near or/at
- trees
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
Source
- Source
- Matt Moneymaker, internet, Nov 11, 1995, quoting bow hunter and farmer.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- approachedýwatched observerýmade a noise
- Aggressive To
- deer
- Object Handled
- animal
- Sound
- screamýother
- Eating
- meat
- Reaction
- fled from
- Evidence Left
- footprintsýdead animal
- Additional Movement
- entered woodsýmade a noise
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Number of Tracks
- 2
- Track Condition
- good
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- stayed stillýfled