Incident #992726
Loudonville, Ashland Cty, Ohio
Jul 1997
Account
Two canoes on Mohican River a mile from Loudonville in woods, smelled pungent smell of decay, noticed shadow in trees, one girl sas a black 6.5 to 7-foot creature watching them. They speeded up, it followed them in the trees. Then it ran ahead, about 200 yards in 30 seconds, to a bend in the river. They heard a splash, then saw it come out on the opposite bank. Later they saw it casually crossing an open field.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 03 1997
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1997
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Ashland Cty
- Nearest Town
- Loudonville
- Latitude
- 4038
- Longitude
- 8215
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- water
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- many
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- woodsýbottom land
- Nearby Water
- river
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- BFRO post by Ron Schaffner, quoting Jason CIA
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- other
- Later Movement
- watched observerýtravelled parallelýran
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Odour
- mild
- Human Contact
- watch
- Reaction
- watchedýavoided
- Water Activity
- dive inýclimb out
- Use of Water
- travel
- Additional Movement
- entered waterýswamýwent in field
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- row/paddling
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- kept going