Incident #992480
State Game Land #48, Columbia Cty, Pennsylvania
Dec 1981
Account
13-year-old was sitting waiting for daylight on deer hunt. He heard something moving in the brush and noted "decaying animal" smell, then as day broke saw on his right 50 to 75 yards away a seated figure covered with brown hair about 3.5 inches long "laid down flat". It had a cone-shaped head and a flat face with a large brow ridge, and was sitting with its legs 'bowled out in front". Thought it was a bear until it stood up and ran away on two legs, slightly hunched over, arms down to knees and jerking in an unusual manner, not swinging free. He ran in the opposite direction.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1981
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- dawn
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Columbia Cty
- Nearest Town
- State Game Land #48
- Latitude
- 4100
- Longitude
- 7625
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
Source
- Source
- Creature Research Journal, June, 1986, quoting unidentified 13-year-old boy.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- slightly stooped
- Hair Length
- medium
- Appearance
- smooth
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Nose
- no snout
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got upýfled
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Odour
- mild
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- seated
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- fled