Incident #992741
Pearlington, Hancock Cty, Mississippi
1975
Account
Deonka Bridgewater, 6 years old, awakened by neighbour's dog barking wildly. She and siblings looked down to see 20 or 30 feet away a creature larger than a man, covered with shaggy, dark-brown hair, squatting eating vegetables. They could hear it eating. Children screamed, it looked up at them and went on eating. Its eyes glowed white. Grandfather woke up and saw it, went outside and fired gun in the air. It stood up and ran off on two legs into the woods towards the Pearl River, unbelievably fast. Next morning large humanlike prints were found in the garden. Location is just across the east branch of the Pearl from Honey Island Swamp, where there are two Louisiana reports.
When
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Mississippi
- County
- Hancock Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pearlington
- Latitude
- 3015
- Longitude
- 8936
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male and child
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- bottom land
- Nearby Water
- riverýswamp
Weather and light
- Lighting
- no obvious light
Source
- Source
- BFRO, Deonka Bridgewater CIA, from Scott McNabb
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected white
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Movement
- eating
- Later Movement
- watched observerýhandled something
- Arms Used
- for eating
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Eating
- other
- Reaction
- watchedýfled from
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- ex fast
- Additional Movement
- got upýfledýentered woods
- Position when first seen
- squatting
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- studiedýshouted