Incident #991776
Estherwood, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Dec 1974
Account
Eugene Miller and wife newly in rented house, heard something screaming about 10.30 p.m. Stayed up, scared, about 3 a.m. something scratched at the back door. Called game warden. Found a piece of multi-coloured hair. Game warden had it analyzed, could not be identified. A later night with others staked out at night around the house, smelled something awful, heard it hit a fence, tried to get light on it, it was already in the swamp. Two others chased across the fence, he stayed put, turned around and saw a thing six feet tall, huge, that cackled at him. He froze and started screaming, it was gone. Thing came around for about 8 weeks, then stopped.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Louisiana
- County
- Acadia Cty
- Nearest Town
- Estherwood
- Latitude
- 3011
- Longitude
- 9228
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- trees
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- flashlight
Source
- Source
- Eugene Miller, Estherwood, LA, writing to Rene Dahinden about his own sighting.
Creature description
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- disappeared
- Object Handled
- building
- Sound
- screamýother
- Odour
- strong
- Human Contact
- attempt entry
- Reaction
- fled from
- Evidence Left
- hair
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- shouted