Incident #991461
Watova, Nowata Cty, Oklahoma
Jul 1974
Account
For two weeks, starting in late July, Margie Lee saw a 6-foot, hairy creature, believed to be a male, around their farm almost every night. Once it was in their barn 'thrashing around' and when she tried to chase it away it crashed through a window covered with chicken wire. It showed an interest in women, bypassing houses where only men lived. It put the Lees' feed pail in front of the barn door every night, blocking the entrance, finding the pail when they hid it. Once she heard it laugh, the only sound it ever made. John Lee saw it too, but not so often. Deputies Gilbert Gilmore and Buck Field saw it several times, and one night blinded it with their car headlights and opened fire on it. It dashed into the woods, showing no sign of being hit, and was not seen again. It took a neighbour's chicken.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- Oklahoma
- County
- Nowata Cty
- Nearest Town
- Watova
- Latitude
- 3638
- Longitude
- 9539
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large male
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Super Human Action
- Could run as fast as or faster than a deer
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Jerome Clark in Fate, Dec. 1976, quoting Mrs. Margie Lee, Watova, OK, her husband, John, Deputy Sheriffs Gilbert Gilmore and Buck Field, and several other witnesses.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- on faceýon palms
- Hair Length
- short
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Hair Shorter On
- arms
- Expression
- curious
- Arms
- long
- Aggressive To
- chicken
- Sound
- other
- Odour
- strong
- Eating
- small animal
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 5 feet