Rural resident describes daylight sighting of a bigfoot north of East Conemaugh
Account
The witness, then a teenager, took a shortcut through woods to return a neighbor's loose German shepherd. In a clearing by a fenced garbage pile, the witness saw a black hairy gorilla-like figure crouched at the fence, reaching through with a hand-like arm to move objects. The dog whined and blocked the witness, and after watching for several seconds the witness left and returned the dog by the road.
What was reported
Every kind of observation in the account. Select one to find other encounters with it.
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
- approximately four feet when crouched
- Build src
- muscular
- Hair colour src
- all-black
- Hair length src
- hanging down off arm
- Face src
- no snout
- Arms src
- at least three feet long
- Hands src
- hand-like, not a paw
- Posture src
- hunched down on the ground leaning forward
- Age / size src
- young
- Other features src
- kind of like a gorilla
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
7 July 1978
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| Time of day |
around 9 or 9:30 am
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| Place |
Conemaugh, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
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| Map point |
40.36, -78.88 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 16327 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 |
returning neighbor's dog through woods
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| Witness's word for it |
kind of like a gorilla
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| Source classification |
Class A
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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.
- Investigated by
- Benjamin C. (BFRO)
An investigator spoke at length with the witness about the sighting.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #16327 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference