Incident #991444
Birds Run, Guernsey Cty, Ohio
Jul 1996
Account
Debbie in car with husband and daughter saw creature cross road, leap from the side of the road to the side of a hill, then go up a grassy area to the woodline. She called Don Keating and he was at the site 3.5 hours later, and found a deep print where the creature hit the hill with a 9.5 foot leap.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 19 1996
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1996
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Guernsey Cty
- Nearest Town
- Birds Run
- Latitude
- 4010
- Longitude
- 8139
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Super Human Action
- Took 9 1/2-foot uphill standing leap.
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Don Keating, Monthly Bigfoot Report, Aug. 1996, quoting Debbie Brill, Birds Run, OH.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- slightly stooped
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Later Movement
- crossed roadýjumpedýwent up slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Additional Movement
- entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.5
- Heel Width
- 4.5
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Action on sighting
- kept going