Incident #992914
Catawissa, Colubia Cty, Pennsylvania
Apr 1993
Account
Informant and friend camping on friend's family's land, went to old apple orchard looking for firewood, heard screeching, wheezing noise, then an awaful scream. Looked and saw 50 yards away a 5'6" creature est. 350 to 400 pounds. It started running at them with incredible speed. They ran out of the orchard and as soon as they reached a clear area it stopped running and turned away. A month earlier a mangled deer had been found in the middle of the clearing, not eaten at all, and a week earlier all the windows had been smashed in five small sheds in the clearing and there was a strange odor.
When
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1993
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Colubia Cty
- Nearest Town
- Catawissa
- Latitude
- 4057
- Longitude
- 7628
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- orchard
- Super Human Action
- Ran incredibly fast.
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
- Nearby Water
- pond
Weather and light
- Lighting
- bright moonlight
Source
- Source
- BFRO from confidential, with friend, gender not noted but presume male.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 5-6 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- chasedýstopped stillýturned around
- Aggressive To
- witnesses
- Sound
- scream
- Human Contact
- bluff
- Reaction
- ran at
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- ex fast
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- fled