Incident #991631
South Glade, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
Sep 1974
Account
Gary Kanter, a security guard at an unfinished housing development at the south end of Lake Okeechobee, said he fired six times with a revolver at a 7-foot, hulking, hairy form that kept coming towards him despite warnings to stop. At 30 feet he thinks he hit it twice." It grabbed its chest and ran like you can't believe...like a track star." It smelled like rotten eggs.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 24 1974
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- fall
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Palm Beach Cty
- Nearest Town
- South Glade
- Latitude
- 2641
- Longitude
- 8044
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- Near or/at
- empty building
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Palm Beach, FL, Post, Sep. 26, 1974, and Fate magazine Feb. 1975, quoting Gary Kanter.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- approachedýfled
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Arms Used
- other
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- approachedýfled from
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- fast
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoors
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- shoutedýshotýmade cast