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Aug 1973
Herminie, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Housekeeper chased by gorilla-like creature on two legs that made heavy breathing sounds.
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Aug 1973
Buffalo Mills, Bedford Cty, Pennsylvania
Nine foot humanoid strolled down the main street of Buffalo Mills.
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Aug 1973
Herminie, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Man checking why his dog was barking saw 30 feet away in his garden an apelike figure 7 feet tall standing motionless. He went to get a gun but when he came back it was gone. A large branch had…
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Aug 1973
Derry, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
About 11.30 p.m. woman and son heard something scratching at the back of their trailer, and a sound like a crying baby, then their lights began to go on and off. They opened the back door and standing in front…
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Aug 1973
Bradenville, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Tall, hairy biped observed by a resident.
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Aug 1973
Kingston, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Motorist reported to police that driving near Rte 30 he almost hit a gorilla-like creature with glowing eyes and pointed ears, and it screamed like a man in pain.
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Aug 1973
Latrobe, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Several witnesses reported to state police that they had seen a tall, hairy creature walking on two legs.
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Aug 1973
Derry, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Woman said a hairy creature with red eyes and an apelike head pulled back her drapes to peer through her open bedroom window. She noticed as smell of rotten eggs.
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Aug 1973
Luxor, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Witness observed a tall, hairy biped during the day.
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Aug 1973
Bradenville, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Several men reported to state police that they had seen a tall, hairy biped in daylight.
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Aug 1973
Greensburg, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Doctor went outside to see what was bothering his dog, and confronted a large, hairy, apelike creature. He ran inside and got a rifle and fired several shots at the creature "as it lumbered off in the distance."
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Sep 1973
Youngstown, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
In St. James Cemetery, a large, hairy, apelike creature walked out of the woods towards a mother and her baby. She grabbed the child, ran to her car and drove 5 miles to her father's home. An hour later her…
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Sep 1973
Indiana, Indiana Cty, Pennsylvania
Roger McCracken saw an 8-foot, greyish, hair-covered giant by his garage at dawn on Sept. 2. The next day his stepdaughter, Betty Ruffner, saw it. It was huge, with an arched back, long arms and a tremendously long stride.
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Sep 1973
Indiana, Indiana Cty, Pennsylvania
Betty Ruffner and her son Raymond saw a huge black creature sitting on an apple barrel on her porch, eating apples. Raymond fired twice, hitting it in the leg, but it leaped the road and ran into the brush. They…
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Sep 1973
Whitney, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Chester Yothers heard a thump and got out of bed, saw big hairy creature standing staring the house next door, where 8 small children were sleeping on the porch. He called his wife and they watched it for about two…
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Sep 1973
Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Woman woke up at 2 a.m. and saw a face like a gorilla's looking in her open bedroom window, which was 9 feet above the ground. It kept watching her until she summoned courage to close the drapes. Leathery skin…
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Sep 1973
New Alexandria, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Man said he saw two large, hairy, manlike creatures swimming underwater in Keystone Lake.
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Sep 1973
Greensburg, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Ten boys rushed into the State Police Barracks on the outskirts of Greenburg saying that they had seen the head and upper body of a gorilla-like creature in the brush in a valley below the hilltop where the barracks sits.…
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Sep 1973
Greensburg, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Two boys said that in the wooded valley below the State Police Barracks and St. Anne's Home for the Aged they saw a large gorilla-like creature lying asleep on some old grass clippings.
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Sep 1973
Greensburg, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Newsboy delivering papers near St. Anne's Home for the Aged, saw on a hill on the other side of the wooded vallley a tall, tan-coloured creature that walked in a stooped posture, "like it was drunk."
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Sep 1973
Latrobe, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Woman wakened at 2 a.m. by sound of fighting dog. Saw across the street the dog had a giant creature by the right heel. The creature, like a tall, very hairy man, had long legs and arms so long that…
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Sep 1973
Verona, Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania
Boys motorcycling in 100-acre wild tract in Penn Hills heard something crashing through the woods and that evening found fresh tracks, but these were rained out overnight. Mr. Baird, father of one of the boys, searched and found other fresh…
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Oct 1973
Perryville, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Hunter walking back to his truck say a large, hairy, greyish creature near Beaver Run Dam.
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Nov 1973
Uniontown, Fayette Cty, Pennsylvania
Man shot at a hairy, apelike creature twice, once with a revolver and once with a rifle, to no effect.