Logan County Ohio 1960
When my father was a boy living in Lewistown, Ohio in Logan County he and his friends often went camping along the railroad tracks besides Rennick Creek catching fish and crawdads.
One summer morning my father and one of his friends woke up from their tent and went to the creek to fish, and heard a noise further up stream and looked in that direction. What they saw was the figure of a human roughly four feet in height, covered in hair that was brown except for the face and inside of its hands.
It was cupping water into its hand to drink from the creek. It saw my dad and his friend, became startled and afraid, and took off running through the brush. Dad and his friend followed it, and saw it leave the woods running across an open field towards another stretch of woods.
They packed up their camp and headed back into town telling anyone who would listen what they had saw. At that time words like, "bigfoot," or, "sasquatch," were not known so they could only say it was an abominable snowman. People laughed and told them it was probably an escaped monkey from a zoo or was somebody's pet. Others joked saying they must have been sniffing gas.
Dad's friend who saw it died earlier this year, but dad is still alive and maintains to this day that what he saw was not a human being or a monkey or an ape like a chimpanzee, gorilla or orangutan.
It must be noted that in this same area in the early 1980s in nearby Russell's Point there was a wave of bigfoot sightings. Perhaps it was the same creature but now fully grown. One account from a local named "Big" Dave Harper, who was 6'4" and 300 pounds and not afraid of anybody, was cutting trees and saw it watching him. It scared him to death, leaving his expensive chainsaw and equipment behind. He said it was far larger than himself.
You seldom read or hear stories of bigfoot prior to the Patterson film, but my father's story predates that by seven years. Here in Ohio it's known as the grass man.
When my father was a boy living in Lewistown, Ohio in Logan County he and his friends often went camping along the railroad tracks besides Rennick Creek catching fish and crawdads.
One summer morning my father and one of his friends woke up from their tent and went to the creek to fish, and heard a noise further up stream and looked in that direction. What they saw was the figure of a human roughly four feet in height, covered in hair that was brown except for the face and inside of its hands.
It was cupping water into its hand to drink from the creek. It saw my dad and his friend, became startled and afraid, and took off running through the brush. Dad and his friend followed it, and saw it leave the woods running across an open field towards another stretch of woods.
They packed up their camp and headed back into town telling anyone who would listen what they had saw. At that time words like, "bigfoot," or, "sasquatch," were not known so they could only say it was an abominable snowman. People laughed and told them it was probably an escaped monkey from a zoo or was somebody's pet. Others joked saying they must have been sniffing gas.
Dad's friend who saw it died earlier this year, but dad is still alive and maintains to this day that what he saw was not a human being or a monkey or an ape like a chimpanzee, gorilla or orangutan.
It must be noted that in this same area in the early 1980s in nearby Russell's Point there was a wave of bigfoot sightings. Perhaps it was the same creature but now fully grown. One account from a local named "Big" Dave Harper, who was 6'4" and 300 pounds and not afraid of anybody, was cutting trees and saw it watching him. It scared him to death, leaving his expensive chainsaw and equipment behind. He said it was far larger than himself.
You seldom read or hear stories of bigfoot prior to the Patterson film, but my father's story predates that by seven years. Here in Ohio it's known as the grass man.
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