Incident #992956
Mississippi
1985
Account
Driving in central Mississippi, saw what looked like a dead tree beside the road. It got up, crossed the road in two steps, stopped and looked back at car. Hair covered except face, 7 ft. tall, deepset eyes shone red in afternoon sun. Long arms swinging as it crossed road. Then scrambled up bank into pasture. Witness had seen a similar creature two years earlier at a nearby creek.
When
- Year
- 1985
- Time of Day
- afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Mississippi
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Super Human Action
- Crossed road in two steps
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- direct sunlight
Source
- Source
- Beckjord, from M.K. Davis, quoting anonymous driver.
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected red
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- on face
- Face Appeared
- monkeylike
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got upýcrossed roadýstopped still
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Additional Movement
- stopped stillýwatched observerýwent up slope
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- kept going