Many tracks found and terrible screams heard
Account
A hunter reported seeing a tall, black-haired biped twice at dusk while sitting in non-running vehicles in the woods, and the creature ran each time. The account includes reddish eyes and an estimated height of at least eight feet. The reporter, who did not see the creature, relayed the hunter's description along with related track and scream reports from the same mountain area.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- at least 8 feet tall
- Hair colour src
- black
- Eyes src
- reddish eyes
- Gait src
- ran
- Posture src
- walking on two legs
- Other features src
- straight hair
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
August 1998
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
right before dusk
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| Place |
Capels, McDowell County, West Virginia
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| Map point |
37.46, -81.60 (± 1133 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 1203 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
sitting in parked truck and on ATV in woods
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| Witness's word for it |
A unidentifiable creature meeting the description of bigfoot
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
Many unidentifiable tracks reported as present in the area
Two prints found at the bottom of a cliff that disappeared
Source timeline
Every record this entry is built from, earliest known first. Records are versioned and never edited in place.
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BFRO report #1203 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference
The report refers to
- “a hunter was found dead in the woods in a nearby town”Not in the Anomadex yet