Incident #992584
Brush Valley, Indiana Cty, Pennsylvania
Dec 1992
Account
In Brush Valley Township, at dawn on a cold day, a hunter had just walked into a wooded area when he noticed an odour like an open sewer, looked up and saw a 7 to 8-foot apelike creature covered with brownish-black hair running away from him at a distance of about 50 yards. He shot at it and chased it over a hillside where it disappeared.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 01 1992
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1992
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- dawn
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Indiana Cty
- Nearest Town
- Brush Valley
- Latitude
- 4032
- Longitude
- 7904
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- hillside
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Creature Research Journal, spring, 1993, quoting unnamed hunter.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- fled
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- shotýchased