Incident #991859
Big Sandy, Benton Cty, Tennessee
Oct 1980
Account
Driving home from work, Larry Ross saw creature standing in the middle of the road as he started up a slope from a small creek.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 12 1980
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Tennessee
- County
- Benton Cty
- Nearest Town
- Big Sandy
- Latitude
- 3650
- Longitude
- 8800
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Nearby Water
- creek
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Creature Chronicles, Spring, 1981, quoting Brent Raynes, Waynesboro, Tennessee, quoting Larry Ross.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- turnedýwalked away
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car