Incident #992479
Vandergrift, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Oct 1981
Account
Colleen and husband backing out of driveway in Lancer Park housing development, Colleen saw in headlights an 8-foot, dark creature walk smoothly across the neighbouring lawn and disappear down a hillside.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 31 1981
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1981
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Westmoreland Cty
- Nearest Town
- Vandergrift
- Latitude
- 4036
- Longitude
- 7935
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- hillside
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Nearby Water
- river
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Pennsylvania Bigfoot, interview with Lancer Park woman, Colleen.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Neck Length
- short
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- went down slope
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- kept going