Incident #992910
Pell City, Saint Clair Cty, Alabama
1998
Account
Crow hunting two miles from nearest road, on hillside overlooking a valley, fired shotgun and at sound a 6 to 7-foot creature, est. 300 lb., with long brown hair, started running up the hillside across the valley. It was in sight about 5 seconds before entering woods. It looked to be wearing something. Informant Greg with cousin John Mark.
When
- Year
- 1998
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- afternoon
- Duration
- 3 to 5 seconds
Where
- State / province
- Alabama
- County
- Saint Clair Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pell City
- Latitude
- 3336
- Longitude
- 8618
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- hill
- Near or/at
- trees
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- BFRO Curators from greg - gstro26014 -with cousin John Mark
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- went up slopeýentered woods
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Action on sighting
- studied