Incident #992793
Birds Run, Guernsey Cty, Ohio
Oct 1998
Account
12-year-old boy squirrel hunting in woods at back of family property, sitting inside woodline heard heavy walking, then saw 7 to 8-foot, bulky creature covered with white hair, but with black skin and hands and face. It rested a hand on the side of a tree. Fingers long and skinny. When it saw him and stared at him he ran.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 15 1998
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1998
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- evening
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- Ohio
- County
- Guernsey Cty
- Nearest Town
- Birds Run
- Latitude
- 4010
- Longitude
- 8139
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- tree
- Near or/at
- field
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Nearby Water
- creek
Source
- Source
- BFRO Curators, Don Keating <[email protected]> quoting Mike Brill
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- white
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýwatched observer
- Reaction
- watched
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- studiedýfled