Incident #992006
Pocomoke City, Worcester Cty, Maryland
1968 to 1969
Account
Driving down a dirt road beside abandoned railroad tracks in Pocomoke State Forest at a place where Purdue poultry farm dumped its bad eggs, saw glowing eyes, then made out 2 or 3 ape-like creatures, 8 or 9 feet tall and covered with hair, rumaging through egg piles. Horrible stench.
When
- Year
- 1968 to 1969
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- 6 to 10 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Maryland
- County
- Worcester Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pocomoke City
- Latitude
- 3810
- Longitude
- 7533
What was seen
- Individuals
- two large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- garbage dump
- Near or/at
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 3
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Digest, Mark Opsasnick interviews with Jim Webster and Troy Doyle, also involving Art Johnson, all in late teens.
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected, no colour stated
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- picking up
- Later Movement
- picked something upýhandled something
- Arms Used
- other
- Object Handled
- animal matter
- Odour
- strong
- Eating
- garbage
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Action on sighting
- studiedýdeparted slowly