Incident #992958
Woodlawn, Marion Cty, Texas
Apr 1979
Account
Dawn-Marie, husband and two girls in private 460 acre tract of woods and pastures. Heard crunching in brush. Later husband target shooting in ravine with pistol, creature jumped into and then out of ravine, over 6 feet deep, landing 10 to 15 feet from them. Large, covered with thin coat of grayish hair, wide shoulders, long upper arms and legs, short neck, round head. More human looking than "blocky thick shapes" of sasquatch drawings.
When
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Texas
- County
- Marion Cty
- Nearest Town
- Woodlawn
- Latitude
- 3240
- Longitude
- 9421
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- ravine
- Near or/at
- road
- Super Human Action
- Jumped more than 6 feet up out of ravine
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 4
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes and child
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- BFRO from 'Dawn-Marie' CIA. Witnesses Dawn-Marie, her husband and daughters 6 and 9.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Hair Length
- medium
- Hair Colour
- grey
- Neck Length
- short
- Shoulders
- wide
- Legs
- long
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- jumping down
- Later Movement
- jumpedýwent up slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- approachedýavoided
- Additional Movement
- maintained distance
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- stayed stillýfled