Incident #991470
Stilwell, Adair Cty, Oklahoma
Aug 1977
Account
Brian Jones said he was visiting the Robert Richie house and they were frying bacon for sandwiches when the creature looked in the window. When it left he ran outside to see if he could see it, and as he came around a corner of the house it jumped out at him, pawed him, ripping off his shirt and scratching him, then picked him up, dropped him and ran off. After everyone went back in the house it began clawing at a window and damaged a screen. That incident prompted Ritchie, who had seen the creature several times before, to get the sheriff involved, and he stopped spending the night at the house. The story does not detail any of Ritchie's sightings or those of his family members, except his mother.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 06 1977
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Oklahoma
- County
- Adair Cty
- Nearest Town
- Stilwell
- Latitude
- 3549
- Longitude
- 9738
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- light from habitation
Source
- Source
- Tulsa, OK, Tribune, Aug. 8, 1977, quoting Robert Richie and Brian Jones, 15, Stilwell, OK.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- very large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observerýwalked away
- Aggressive To
- witness
- Arms Used
- for picking upýother
- Object Handled
- person
- Human Contact
- pick up
- Reaction
- ran at
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Additional Movement
- picked something upýhandled somethingýput something down
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- contact
- Action on sighting
- chased