April 26, 1999 at 7:30 P.M. in Adams County
This report was originally submitted by Ron Schaffner to the BigFoot Research Organization database on May 22, 1999. After I discovered it, I requested permission from Ron to install it into my database, and he graciously gave me permission. Here now is the report....
DATE--- April 26, 1999
TIME--- 7:30 p.m. EST
WITNESSES--- Two 10-year-old boys whose parents request confidentiality. First contact was made to the one boy's mother who retold the original account to me. ("Me" being Mr. Schaffner.)
OBSERVED--- (As told by mother (Sue) and later confirmed by her son in a personal interview.) On April 26, 1999 Monday eve around 7:30 p.m. they were finshing up and my son (10) was outside the tree house when he says he heard some chicken hawks squawking around a tree appx. a few hundred feet from him. He says he looked up and the tree was shaking and then he saw a long tail hanging from the tree. He ran up into his tree house and told his cousin he saw something. When my nephew looked out he became scared and told Joe to run to the truck. They started to run to the truck when they heard a crashing sound. My nephew said he turned and saw in his words "a monster looking thing." It jumped from the tree and began to run toward them. They came to the house and were shaking so badly my nephew was crying. He said it had red eyes, long arms with claws on its hands and strange looking feet for sure. Now I drilled them and so did my husband because we wanted to make sure they kept the story they had told us. They refused to go back to the tree house by themselves so the next day I walked with them there and they took everything down and they said they hoped to never go there again. My son said to him it was a bad memory. You have to understand this son of mine loves the woods and is out there all the time but says he will never go into the woods alone again."
Postscript--- I discovered today (June 13'th, 1999) that the color of the creature was dark brown and the reported height was 6-7 feet.
Again, special thanks to Ron Schaffner for his permission to re-print and log this account into our database.
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