Incident #992256
Margaretville, Delaware Cty, New York
Jul 1895
Account
Peter Thomas was driving a team on a lonely road when a "wild-eyed man or ape" jumped from the underbrush into the middle of the road, stood in the middle of the road and made "a raucous, inarticulate cry", then seized one of the horses, twisted its neck, "with a facility which betokened long practice" and dragged it off into the night. The terrified witness could say only that the creature was of human shape, 7 feet high and covered with hair.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 26 1895
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1895
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- New York
- County
- Delaware Cty
- Nearest Town
- Margaretville
- Latitude
- 4209
- Longitude
- 7439
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Super Human Action
- Killed horse by twisting its neck, then dragged it off.
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Monsters of the North Woods, by Bartholomew, Bartholomew, Brann and Hallenbeck, quoting the New York, NY, Herald, Jul. 31, 1895, and the Newburg, NY, Daily Press, Jul. 29, 1895, quoting Peter Thomas, Margaretsville, N.Y.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- jumping
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýmade a noiseýapproached
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- horse
- Arms Used
- for breakingýhanging onto something
- Object Handled
- animal
- Sound
- other
- Human Contact
- watch
- Reaction
- ignored
- Additional Movement
- handled somethingýwalked away
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sleigh-carriage
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- stayed still