Incident #991948
Oceana, Wyoming Cty, West Virginia
Aug 1978
Account
Bill Pruitt heard a sound like babies crying, later spotted under a street lamp what looked like a huge man. As he got out of his car to investigate it "hunkered down" by the river bank, and the next thing he knew it had jumped 30 feet across the Clear Fork River. Pruitt emptied his gun at it and the police chief, who had arrived, fired 7 shots with a rifle. It just kept going. The two men found no blood, but the thing broke tree limbs 3 inches in diameter, and left huge "heart shaped" footprints in the sand.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 14 1978
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- West Virginia
- County
- Wyoming Cty
- Nearest Town
- Oceana
- Latitude
- 3742
- Longitude
- 8138
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- empty building
- Super Human Action
- Jumped 30 feet across river.
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Nearby Water
- river
Weather and light
- Lighting
- street light
Source
- Source
- Charleston, WV, Gazette, Aug. 15, 1978, quoting Bill Pruitt, Oceana, WV, policeman, and the police chief.
Creature description
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got downýjumpedýran
- Aggressive To
- tree
- Arms Used
- for breaking
- Object Handled
- tree
- Sound
- other
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Action on sighting
- shot