Incident #992092
Ellicott City, Howard Cty, Maryland
Jun 1977
Account
Couple parked in a sports car on a back road off Rte 40 near Patapsco Valley State Park heard noises and say red eyes in rear view mirror. Turned to see huge ape-like creature standing on the edge of the woods directly behind them. They drove off and it ran through the woods beside them, keeping up for several yards.
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Maryland
- County
- Howard Cty
- Nearest Town
- Ellicott City
- Latitude
- 3917
- Longitude
- 7649
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Digest, Mark Opsasnick quoting Steve Stover quoting unnamed couple.
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected red
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- ran
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- fled