Woman remembers evening sighting while driving on Hwy. T near Oxly
Account
The witness and a relative were driving home from church at night when they saw a tall, upright, hair-covered figure standing in the middle of the rural road. They stopped and watched it look toward them for about 15-20 seconds before it leaped over a roadside fence from a standing start and moved bipedally across a field. The pair drove home frightened and locked the house, and did not see it again.
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
- 7 - 7 1/2 feet tall
- Build src
- very broad shoulders but pretty lean
- Hair colour src
- dark milk chocolate brown
- Hair length src
- long, matted dreadlock looking
- Face src
- very human, hairless with leathery looking skin, broad nose, wrinkles around eyes
- Eyes src
- dark in color
- Arms src
- long in proportion to body
- Hands src
- hands observed, not paws
- Feet src
- hair covered, not paws
- Gait src
- bipedal, brisk run/walk
- Posture src
- stood quite upright
- Apparent sex src
- thought to be male
- Age / size src
- probably an adult
- Other features src
- no ears observed, head much bigger and broader than human's
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
October 1983
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
around 9:30 at night
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| Place |
Oxly, Ripley County, Missouri
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| Map point |
36.6025, -90.6790 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Oxly CDP (GEOID 2955694), matched from nearest town 'Oxly'
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
driving home from church
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| Witness's word for it |
a large creature
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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
- G.E. Stade (BFRO)
An investigator interviewed the witness by phone about the sighting.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #28080 Primary