Incident #992722
Medina, Medina Cty, Ohio
1978
Account
Informant and friend driving on Poe Road between River Styx Road and State Route 57, saw 6-foot creature standing by the road. It did not move, but looked directly at them. Took it for a bear at first, but it did not look like a bear about the face. Area wooded and swampy, near a branch of the Rocky River. Many deer.
When
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Medina Cty
- Nearest Town
- Medina
- Latitude
- 4108
- Longitude
- 8152
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woodsýswamp
- Nearby Water
- river
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- BFRO, anonymous e-mail.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Nose
- no snout
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýwatched observer
- Reaction
- watched
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- kept going