While walking alone in the woods, boy comes face to face with 8 foot tall creature
Account
The witness was walking in the woods behind a former residence in the early afternoon when hearing a noise and seeing a large dark creature with ape-like and human-like facial features. The creature looked at the witness and then walked away, and the witness ran home. The witness also reported hearing an unfamiliar loud noise like an elephant.
What was reported
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Sightings
Sounds
Described appearance
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- Height src
- about 8-9 feet tall
- Build src
- greatly built in body and muscle mass
- Hair colour src
- dark, a cross between brown and black with a tint of red
- Face src
- like a cross between an ape and a man
- Other features src
- ape-like nose, skull sort of like a gorilla's with man's structural look
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
February 1998
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
about 12:30 in the afternoon
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| Place |
Southfork, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Stated
BFRO report #1214
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
40.3673, -78.7914 (± 15 km)
USGS GNIS populated place 'South Fork', Cambria, matched from nearest town 'southfork' read as 'south fork' (spelling match)
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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 in the woods behind home
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| Witness's word for it |
a bigfoot type creature
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
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photos of footprints
The witness and a companion later tried and failed to make a plaster cast of a footprint but took photos of footprints.
The witness and a companion later tried and failed to make a plaster cast of a footprint but took photos of footprints.
The witness and a companion later tried and failed to make a plaster cast of a footprint but took photos of footprints.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #1214 Primary