Incident #991482
Proctor, Cherokee Cty, Oklahoma
Aug 1990
Account
Janet Doss ran out the back door after arguing with her mother and came within 10 feet of a huge animal squatted down eating table scraps out of a pan. It got up and ran into the woods. Beverly Doss looked out and saw it standing, then moving down the hill with large strides. They had been hearing screams in the hollow below them, and something had been eating the table scraps put out at the edge of the woods for the past three weeks. The sighting a week earlier >1481< at Eldon, OK, was on the other side of the same hollow, a few miles away.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 01 1990
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1990
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Oklahoma
- County
- Cherokee Cty
- Nearest Town
- Proctor
- Latitude
- 3559
- Longitude
- 9447
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- trees
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female and child
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- yard light
Source
- Source
- Little Rock, AR, Democrat, Aug. 30, 1990, Kansas City, MO, Star, Aug. 19, 1990, and Tulsa, OK, Tribune, Aug. 14, 1990, quoting Beverley Dosse Moore, Proctor, OK, and her daughter Janet, 8.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- on faceýon palms
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- staying stillýeating
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýwalked awayýwent down slope
- Object Handled
- garbage
- Sound
- scream
- Odour
- strong
- Eating
- garbage
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- squatting
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet