Incident #992324
Barre, Washington Cty, Vermont
Mar 1974
Account
In the third week of March, on Country Club Road in Barre, two young men had stopped and were out of their car when they heard a loud shriek, then looked for the cause and saw a tall dark figure running across a field that had a dusting of snow. Very fast, and its arms swung below its knees.
When
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Vermont
- County
- Washington Cty
- Nearest Town
- Barre
- Latitude
- 4412
- Longitude
- 7231
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- field
- Near or/at
- road
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
Source
- Source
- Monsters of the Northwoods, letter from two young men to Warren Cook.
Creature description
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- ran
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- fast
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Action on sighting
- studied