Incident #991847
Lacassas, Rutherford Cty, Tennessee
Aug 1965
Account
Roy Hudson and Terry Ring were driving on Brown's Mill Road about 7 p.m. when they saw the creature walking along from one side of the road to another, they turned and came back, passing about three yards from it, and it jumped a 5-foot fence, bringing the fence down. Terry Lester, 16, and Dorris Barrett, about 31, saw it later that night and shined a light in its face. Next day Roy Hudson and friends found three-toed prints on the road and in a ditch. Barrett said the creature was bent over some bushes when his lights hit it.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 22 1965
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1965
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Tennessee
- County
- Rutherford Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lacassas
- Latitude
- 3556
- Longitude
- 8614
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 4
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Source
- Source
- Nashville, TN, Tenneseean, Aug. 24, 1965, quoting Roy Hudson, 13, Terry Ring, Terry Lester and Dorris Barrett.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Nose
- no snout
- Torso Front
- wide
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- crossed road
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Number of Toes
- 3
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- departed slowlyýcame back