Incident #991465
Indianola, McIntosh Cty, Oklahoma
Sep 1975
Account
Anthony Ketchum, Steve Ketchum and Allen Herrin had driven to a fenced area where hogs and horses are kept, heard something when they got out of the car, and when walking back to the car a "huge, hairy hulk resembling a monkey" jumped out of the bushes and "started after us."
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 13 1975
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Oklahoma
- County
- McIntosh Cty
- Nearest Town
- Indianola
- Latitude
- 3510
- Longitude
- 9546
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Near or/at
- farm field
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 3
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Ponca City, OK, City News, Sep. 17, 1975, quoting Anthony Ketchum, 21, his brother Steve, 15, and Allen Herrin, 21.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- very large
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- jumping
- Later Movement
- chased
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- observer
- Human Contact
- bluff
- Reaction
- ran at
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- fled