Incident #991899
Neylandville, Hunt Cty, Texas
Aug 1978
Account
Harvey Garrison, Wolfe City High School senior, visiting friend in South Sulphur, saw brown, 7 to 8-foot creature beside a country road and nearly hit it. It went over the road in one step, into the ditch with the next, and over a fence with the third, out of sight into the dark.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Texas
- County
- Hunt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Neylandville
- Latitude
- 3316
- Longitude
- 9601
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- ditch
- Super Human Action
- Crossed road in a step and a half.
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Nearby Water
- river
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Commerce, TX, East Texan, Sep. 20, 1978, quoting Harvey Garrison, South Sulphur, TX.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- turnedýcrossed roadýcrossed fence
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- kept going