Sasquatch sighting in Mississippi (1969)
Account
The witness and his siblings were catching fireflies in a pasture when their grandfather saw something loping toward them on all fours and ran shouting to distract it. The children then saw a hairy, mangy-looking creature approach within about ten yards. It stopped when the grandfather arrived, stood erect while watching them, then walked into the [name withheld].
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- Gait src
- loping on all fours
- Posture src
- rose up and stood as erect as it could
- Age / size src
- younger
- Other features src
- clumps of hair like mange
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