Incident #992363
Champion, Somerset cty, Pennsylvania
Oct 1972
Account
Family returned home in the late evening and a hairy manlike creature that they had seen before grabbed their car and shook it violently from side to side. Later they found their dog "nearly ripped in half", fatally injured.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- evening
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Somerset cty
- Nearest Town
- Champion
- Latitude
- 4005
- Longitude
- 7921
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied machine
- Near or/at
- occupied building
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot on the East Coast, quoting a Champion, PA, family.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- other
- Aggressive To
- carýdog
- Arms Used
- for shaking
- Object Handled
- vehicleýanimal
- Human Contact
- attack
- Reaction
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close