Incident #992251
Wantage Township, Sussex Cty, New Jersey
May 1977
Account
In the morning Barbara Sites heard a scream from the swamp in the woods on their 120-acre farm, then found the door ripped off the building where their pet rabbits were and the rabbits crushed to death. About 9 p.m. that night Debbie saw from the house a big, hairy thing with no neck and big red eyes standing at the corner of the rabbit shed. Their dog went after it, but it swung its arm and threw the dog 20 feet. Then it turned and walked off, on two legs. Wantage or Wantage township not on any available map. Sites house said to be within a mile of the north border of New Jersey with New York.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 12 1977
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- New Jersey
- County
- Sussex Cty
- Nearest Town
- Wantage Township
- Latitude
- 4115
- Longitude
- 7430
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- empty building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Nearby Water
- swamp
Weather and light
- Lighting
- yard light
Source
- Source
- Newton, New Jersey, Herald, May 17, 1977 and Morristown, NJ Daily Record, Jun. 5, 1977, quoting Richard and Barbara Sikes, daughter Debbie, 16, Edward Conklin, Hamburg, NJ, and Kenneth Vanorton, Lafayette, NJ.
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected red
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- turned aroundýwalked away
- Aggressive To
- rabbitsýdog
- Arms Action
- striking
- Arms Used
- for hitting
- Object Handled
- animal
- Evidence Left
- dead animal
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at homeýinside building
- Action on sighting
- shoutedýstudied