Pennsylvania 4

Time and Place:

Year: 2007
Month: May
Day of Month (number only – e.g. 16): 051207
Time of Day: 10am
County: Pennsylvania Lackawanna

Conditions:

Terrain Description: swamp with open areas
Lighting Conditions: bright daylight
Nearest Town or Landmark: mt cobb
Description of Encounter Area: between two swamps theres and open rd. and a lightlty treed area
Are There Food and/or Water Sources in the Area? (if so, describe): plant life are apples pears
other types of food sources are abundant 3-4 major water sources in this area

Witness Overview:

Occupation/Background: outdoorsman/iv lived in back country here in ne. pa for 2-3 yrs so i do know
my animals by shape smell and general knowlegde

Encounter::

Number of Witnesses: 1-3
Length of Observation: 1-2 min 1st time 2 just heard and smelled /3 time was just my son but in
same area all 3 times
Animal Description: 1 st my son said it was a large 7-8 foot brown hairy thing /onmy own sighting it
was a blackish color standing 7-8 ft by the trees in th areahed long arms AND ONE ENORMUS stride
Aprox. Height: 7-8ft
Aprox. Weight: 400-50 lbs
Head/Facial Description: football shaped face i didnt see was looking for ht. and wieght
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: just sort of a pig stench but just a littel harsher
Vocalizations Heard?: no
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
1 st time i was fishing local pond with friend and we set for catfish just after dark we heard something but not sure if it was bear or anything then after 20 mn we smelled something not good cant describe it then it started to grunt deep we yelled but it didnt move then it started to beat sticks together and we move closer out of all our time in the bush niether of us heard this before at about that time it started to clap what sounded like rock smacking my freind wanted out of there but we decided to see just what it was we go th lantern and went over to the bridge and heard somthing running butr we didnt see it /2 my son was hunting 1/2 mile form 1 st encounter and came home asked me how tall a bear was and that hed seen something like that when we went back this was much taller than a big bear could reach you could see this grape vines cleared 12-14 ft off the ground /3rd time i was turkey hunting on the rd in the same area all within sq. 1/2 mle are these sightings and i was calling and wathing this what i thought was a bear coming up the rd then it got close enough to see good it was NOT A BEAR this had human form and walked upright with a slight hunchit walked out to the open snifft the air made a move to the right and in one step was across a 10ft spance of rd and crashed through the braus and GONE now all this happend in an area of about 3/4 sq. mile from tis area theres accses to 1000 s of acres on conservency land state game land and private land good water and natural shelter iv lived in this mt . area for yrs and hunted it overnite and such theres benn many wiered things happened but none like these tracks were taken in the70 s of a large foot print 2-3 miles from here but never anyting come of it

Priority Level::
Low – 5 -10 years

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