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Class 1d

Family reports visual encounter while target shooting near an open pasture.

Report#

01000004

Occurred April 1979

(Submitted February 28, 2000)

Witness Observation

Easter Sunday. My husband, two girls 6 and 9 years old and myself had completed our Easter visits with family and decided to take the girls out his family's land to let them be in nature and give him a chance to target practice.

We drove through the gate on the dirt road until we came to an open pasture on the right (these pastures are planted for deer hunting) We parked the car in this open area. Walked back to dirt road and went East to a little pond. Let girls see tadpoles and throw rocks. When from behind us, there was loud crunching in brush. We decided to move back toward the car. After hearing nothing more, my husband wanted to shoot pistol. We crossed dirt road immediately across from pasture where car parked to a deep ravine. I am 5 ft 7 husband 5 ft 10. The sides of ravine was over our head.

We shot several times when suddenly, a large animal lunged into the ravine in front of us only about 10 to 15 feet. He paused, looked at us and then in one leap, jumped out of ravine. We froze for a moment then husband grabbed 6 year and I took the hand of 9 year old. We ran towards the car. And to our surprise, the loud brush noises indicated the animal was running toward our car. It stopped in brush line immediately in front of our car. We unlocked drivers door and shoved kids in climbing in behind. He jumped in ravine between us and the target.

Sounds

We heard nothing and it remained perfectly still as we passed.

Additional Observations

One of my concerns is the descriptions I've heard are not the same animal we saw. This animal was grayish in color. Hair long about 5-6 inches. It wasn't very thick hair, seemed as if you could almost see skin through hair. Very wide shoulders, his upper arms were very long, linear and powerful looking. His thigh bones were also very long. Unlike the drawings of bigfoot, he had a short neck and round head. Far more human looking than the blocky thick shapes of drawings.

Time and Conditions

Late afternoon. - Woods and a few open pastures with a small pond. This is a 460 acre track of private property. There is a deep old river bed located there (perhaps it was an old road that was worn down very deep). The light was good.