Incident #991479
Idabel, McCurtain Cty, Oklahoma
Jun 1980's
Account
Skippy Smith, high school track coach, squirrel hunting heard something big and strong moving through trees and through a gap in leafy cover near the ground saw hairy, reddish-brown legs of an animal walking upright. He got out of there.
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1980's
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Oklahoma
- County
- McCurtain Cty
- Nearest Town
- Idabel
- Latitude
- 3354
- Longitude
- 9450
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Tulsa, OK, Tribune, Oct. 9,. 1989, quoting Skippy Smith, Idabel, OK.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Movement
- walking
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Object Handled
- tree
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Action on sighting
- fled