Incident #992429
McClellandtown, Fayette Cty, Pennsylvania
May 1977
Account
Wanda Dobish and family were driving from McClellandtown to Footedale at about 9.30 p.m. when they saw a large animal standing upright at the edge of the narrow road with its back to them. When the headlights hit it, it quickly dropped over an embankment down into a field. Father and son went back later to search the area but found only broken branches and a fence post pushed over, no footprints.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 15 1977
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Fayette Cty
- Nearest Town
- McClellandtown
- Latitude
- 3953
- Longitude
- 7952
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 5
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Uniontown, PA, Herald, May 20, 1977, also Pennsylvania Bigfoot, quoting Wanda Dobish and her husband, Footdale, PA, and their three children, 14, 11 and 7.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- stooped
- Hair Length
- long
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- went down slope
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Action on sighting
- kept going