Incident #992393
Indiana, Indiana Cty, Pennsylvania
Sep 1973
Account
Betty Ruffner and her son Raymond saw a huge black creature sitting on an apple barrel on her porch, eating apples. Raymond fired twice, hitting it in the leg, but it leaped the road and ran into the brush. They collected what they thought were spots of dried blood, but it turned out to be apple juice and saliva.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 13 1973
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Indiana Cty
- Nearest Town
- Indiana
- Latitude
- 4038
- Longitude
- 7909
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Source
- Source
- Saga magazine, about 1974, Peter Guttilla and B. Ann Slate article quoting Betty Ruffner and teenage son, Raymond. Also Pennsylvania Bigfoot, from newspaper article.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- eatingýstaying still
- Later Movement
- fledýcrossed roadýentered woods
- Sound
- scream
- Eating
- fruit
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- seated
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- shot