Woman followed by large, dark shape in the experimental forest on the campus of SUNY College
Account
The witness was walking alone through a small college forest on a trail to work on a dark winter evening. Something off the trail followed alongside her, keeping pace and making increasingly loud breaking and movement sounds, and she glimpsed a very tall blocky dark shape moving beside her while hearing breathing. She stayed on the trail with it alongside until the edge of the woods, then ran to a nearby building while it remained in the woods.
What was reported
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Sightings
Sounds
Described appearance
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- Height src
- very tall
- Build src
- blocky, bulky body
- Legs src
- shadows that looked like legs walking
- Gait src
- walking like a fairly large person
- Age / size src
- fairly large
- Other features src
- dark
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
Winter 1969
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
early evening
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| Place |
Cortland County, New York
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| Map point |
42.6012, -76.1805 (± 15 km)
Towns named in the place text ('Cortland'; USGS GNIS populated place 'Cortland', Cortland)
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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 |
walking through forest to get to work
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| Witness's word for it |
blocky, dark and very tall moving object
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Source timeline
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BFRO report #1451 Primary