Incident #992493
Catawissa Township, Columbia Cty, Pennsylvania
1984
Account
Man burning trash in his back yard near dusk heard a large animal crashing through the woods that ended by a stream 50 yards away. Expecting a deer, he saw instead a huge, black, hairy biped which stood there swaying back and forth. After about two minutres it "let out a god-awful scream" and the man fled to the house. He got a gun, but when he returned the creature was gone.
When
- Year
- 1984
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Columbia Cty
- Nearest Town
- Catawissa Township
- Latitude
- 4100
- Longitude
- 7625
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Near or/at
- fire
- Tracks
- ground too hard
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
- Nearby Water
- creek
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
Source
- Source
- Creature Research Journal, June, 1986, quoting unnamed man.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- very large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Movement
- swaying
- Later Movement
- made a noise
- Sound
- scream
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- stayed stillýfled