Incident #992472
Kingwood, Somerset Cty, Pennsylvania
Oct 1980
Account
Man out walking heard a low gutteral growl and saw a 10-foot hairy creature weighing about 600 pounds which came within 25 feet of him before he ran to his car.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Somerset Cty
- Nearest Town
- Kingwood
- Latitude
- 3955
- Longitude
- 7916
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Pennsylvania Bigfoot, quoting second hand report quoting unnamed man.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 10 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Sound
- growl
- Reaction
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled