Blacksmith recalls seeing a creature come down a mountainside and shares a sketch he drew
Account
Two teenagers were collecting nightcrawlers behind a rural house just after dark when they heard something moving down through dense briars on a nearby logging road. The witness shone a flashlight and watched a very tall, muscular, hair-covered animal move past about 60 feet away for several seconds. The pair were frightened, and the next day they used a sapling to estimate its height at nine feet.
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
- 9 feet tall
- Build src
- built like a large bodybuilder
- Hair colour src
- dark brown with reddish tinge on tips
- Hair length src
- 10-12 inches long hanging down off forearms
- Arms src
- swinging arms
- Other features src
- hair mostly straight
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
Spring 1974
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
just after dark
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| Place |
Stonewood, Harrison County, West Virginia
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| Map point |
39.16, -80.23 (± 10 km)
BFRO map layer point for report 26963 with published boundary
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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 |
collecting nightcrawlers for fishing
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| Witness's word for it |
enormous animal
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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
- Russ Jones (BFRO)
witness sketches of the animal sent to the investigator
An investigator spoke with the witness by phone for about 90 minutes and received sketches.
An investigator spoke with the witness by phone for about 90 minutes and received sketches.
Source timeline
Every record this entry is built from, earliest known first. Records are versioned and never edited in place.
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BFRO report #26963 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference