A family has/had been camped in the northeastern Ohio spot for a little while now. The witnesses include a 22 year old girl, her 18 and 19 year old sisters and an 18 year old male friend of the family. The four had been in town to get pizza. On their way back to the camping area at exactly 11:06 p.m. on July 24'th, 1999, the four winessed a creature cross the gravel road in front of them. It had come out of a pond on the left hand side of the road, walked past some pine trees, walked across the road in front of their car and headed towards the wood line. Then, it did something quite interesting. It stopped. It didn't look back at them or in any other direction, it just stopped. A few seconds later it continued to walk into the woods. The four eyewitnesses were startled, amazed and quite shook up. They continued to their camp site and immediately told their mother what they had just seen. They also called their father in Cleveland. He told me that as he was talking to one of the girls, she began crying because of what she had seen.
The witnesses described it as......
Height--- 7-7½ feet
Color---- Brown with hair all over the
body. Hair was estimated to be about four
inches long.
Head shape was described as "the Darth Vader
head" or rounded.
It was described to walk with a bit of a
forward lean.
The witnesses grabbed a flashlight and went back to the area they had seen the creature cross just moments before. First place they looked they found two excellent prints in the sand. They described them as looking like human feet but much longer then the 18 year old males feet. He wears a size 12 shoe and the tracks were described to be "much bigger and wider" than his shoes. Then they crossed the road and headed to a small path that leads into the wood line. The second thing that was noticed was a big wet spot on the ground and a slightly smaller wet spot. I would assume this is where the creature stopped. After all they did say it was coming up from the pond. So, it is likely that the creature was in the pond and the two wet spots were from the creature standing with the water runing off its body. The question here is... was it in the water to cool off, get a drink (the pond is fresh water; spring fed) try to catch something to eat, all of the forementioned or none of the forementioned. When I was at the location several Geese were noted to be swimming in the deepest part of the pond.
FINAL NOTES.... Marc and I and our third party arrived at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday July 31. We departed (Marc had to go to work at 2:30 p.m.) at about 12:45 p.m. I am completely convinced based on what I saw, what was described to me, to Marc, to our third party, etc., that the four eyewitnesses spotted an unknown creature, probably a Bigfoot. We will continue to monitor this location in northeast Ohio. However, the person who owns the property and the eyewitnesses, have requested to remain totally anonymous. I will, and so will my two research partners, abide to all of their wishes.
The top photograph is the scene from where the reported Bigfoot entered the woods. This picture shows where the creature was first seen; between the large pine tree on the left and the car on the right.
The bottom photograph shows three of the four eyewitnesses looking in the direction the Bigfoot went. It walked a path from where this photo was taken, across the gravel road and into the woods along a trail which went just to the left of the group of people at the picnic table.
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