Incident #992590
Canonsburg, Washington Cty, Pennsylvania
Feb 1994
Account
Woman looking out her back window saw a figure much taller than a human and covered with black hair walking with tremendous strides across a field 150 yards away. She called her son, but he saw only the long, hairy legs. (sic) No indication of how the sighting ended. Paul Johnson and another investigator arrive the next day. They found no tracks in the vicinity of the sighting, where there were large patches of barren ground, but did find a set of 5-toed, 18-inch prints for about 150 yards on a ridge above the valley and ending on a barren hillside leading into the valley. They began at a railroad trestle above a creek where the creature could have travelled.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 05 1994
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1994
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Washington Cty
- Nearest Town
- Canonsburg
- Latitude
- 4016
- Longitude
- 8011
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- field
- Near or/at
- water
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 2
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Snow Condition
- shallow patches
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Creature Research Journal, spring, 1994, quoting a woman and her son, also Paul Johnson re track find.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Legs
- long
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Greates Width
- 8.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 50
- Number of Tracks
- 100
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
- Tracks Came From
- bridge or wharf
- Tracks Went to
- valley
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Action on sighting
- studied