Incident #992691
Mercerville, Gallia Cty, Ohio
1912
Account
J.M. and his mother were picking berries on their farm and started home through some woods. They saw a "monster" with a bulky head, no neck and monstrous wide shoulders, which walked parallel to them, growling or barking, for about 100 yards.
When
- Year
- 1912
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Gallia Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mercerville
- Latitude
- 3840
- Longitude
- 8213
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- trail
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- "Traces of the Grassman", George Clappison and Joedy Cook, quoting Brent Raynes, quoting J.M. who was 5 or 6 at the time of the incident in 1912.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- maintained distanceýmade a noise
- Sound
- growl
- Human Contact
- followed
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- berry pickingýwalking
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- fled