Incident #992867
McBurg, Lincoln Cty, Tennessee
May 1980
Account
Johnny Thompson and sister (presume they were children at the time) looking around old garbage dump off Leatherwood Creek Road on ridge between McBurg and Delrose, heard grunts and hoots, sister looked up and saw 7-foot creature standing 30 feet in front of her. Johnny got only a glimpse before they ran home, hearing branches snap in woods beside them as they went. Was on a densly wooded hilltop, about 10 feet of a dirt road.
When
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Tennessee
- County
- Lincoln Cty
- Nearest Town
- McBurg
- Latitude
- 3510
- Longitude
- 8650
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- hill
- Near or/at
- garbage dump
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
Setting
- Terrain
- hillýwoods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- BFRO Curators, from Johnny Thompson - [email protected] - 702-384-2575.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- travelled parallel
- Sound
- gruntýother
- Human Contact
- followed
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled