Incident #992247
White Meadow Lake, Morris Cty, New Jersey
Aug 1976
Account
Keith Shulman said that a group of his friends saw a 10-foot, black, hairy creature in the woods behind Comanche Ave., and three of them, Johnny Halpin, Carl Hooverman and Joseph Olmstead ran after it. "It jumped at Johnny and landed about 10 feet from him," then it ran away. Shulman later found what he considered a footprint, 18 inches long, wide, and with three toes. Police said didn't consider it a footprint. Shulman also indicated that he was with a group who saw the creature again near dusk standing on a hill, but that they could not see much in the dim light. He noted that it stood on its hind legs to climb an incline of rocks and he didn't think a bear could do that.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 02 1976
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- afternoon
Where
- State / province
- New Jersey
- County
- Morris Cty
- Nearest Town
- White Meadow Lake
- Latitude
- 4055
- Longitude
- 7433
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male and child
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Dover, NJ, Advance, Aug. 3, 1976, quoting Keith Shulman, 14, 304 Beach St, White Meadow Lake, quoting Johnny Halpin, 10, 305 Beach St., Carl Hooverman, 13, 8 Anderson Ave. and Joseph Olmstead, 13, 19 Comanche Ave.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 10 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- jumpedýfled
- Reaction
- approachedýfled from
- Additional Movement
- went up slope
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- playing outside
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- chased