Incident #991589
Brooksville, Hernando Cty, Florida
Jul 1967
Account
James Pakerton said he was sleeping in the cab of his truck when he heard someone approaching, opened the door, and an 8-foot hairy creature grabbed his feet. He hit his air horn and that scared it into running off.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 09 1967
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1967
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Hernando Cty
- Nearest Town
- Brooksville
- Latitude
- 2833
- Longitude
- 8224
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied machine
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Ramona Hibner quoting James Pakerton. Also Warren Smith in Strange Abominable Snowmen.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- handled something
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- person
- Arms Used
- hanging onto something
- Object Handled
- person
- Human Contact
- attack
- Reaction
- ran at
- Additional Movement
- fled
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Closest horizontal distance
- contact
- Action on sighting
- other