Incident #992695
Pearisburg, Giles Cty, Virginia
Mar 1997
Account
Hiking on a small switchback trail near the Appalachian Trail, heard a muffled scream ahead and began calling to see if someone would answer. Then heard crashing in the underbrush and a large figure in the general shape of a human but more hunched over and hairier ran by about 10 feet away and ran off down the side of the mountain. Location is "on Old Hollow Road ner Pearisburg."
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 29 1997
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1997
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Virginia
- County
- Giles Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pearisburg
- Latitude
- 3719
- Longitude
- 8050
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- trail
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
Source
- Source
- Joseph M. Burke and Christine A McCoy, on Internet.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- stooped
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- ranýwent down slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Sound
- scream
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- kept going