Footsteps near Red Hook, New York (1976)
Account
As teenagers on summer break, the witness and his friend rode dirt bikes to a remote woods, cut a new trail with machetes, and camped under pines. In the middle of the night he woke to loud crunching footsteps moving through dry leaves that grew louder as they approached along a ridge. The steps came down an embankment to their tent, paused silently without light, odor, or breathing, then returned up the ridge and faded into the distance. They waited until dawn and left quickly, at the time assuming it was a man or escaped prisoner.
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| Date |
summer of 1976
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
middle of the night
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| Place |
Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York
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| Map point |
42.00, -73.88 (± 10 km)
Show's sighting map pin 'Red Hook, New York', matched to this account (score 0.947)
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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 |
camping overnight in a tent after cutting a dirt-bike trail
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| Witness's word for it |
a man
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| Creature |
Unidentified
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