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- LOCATION: Marion County West Virginia.
(near the border of Monongalia County, along the Monongalia River) Near
the small towns of Rivesville and Jordan. The nearest road would be Rt.
19. (Exact location is being kept confidential per witnesses' request.)
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- DATES: April 20, 21 and 23, 1999.
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- Years ago, I can remember a family living
close to the entrance to the hollow. The teenage boy swore he saw Bigfoot
in the hollow. Needless to say no one believed him. When the incident
started be told, one person said that there where guys from Rivesville
that ride their 4 Wheelers in the hollow a lot and one of them said he
saw Big Foot once. Yet again no one believed him, just as no one is believing
my family.
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- For several years now the only ones that
go back into that area are ones who have horses and 4 Wheelers or dirt
bikes. The roads are so bad that I don't think you would be able to get
anything back there other than that.
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- SUBMITTED APRIL 26:
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- My older brother and his son decided
to try and get a picture of this creature. They took their 4 wheeler back
to the second field that is just behind the one it has been seen in. The
waited for it to walk in. After some time of sitting they started to smell
a horrible stench. My brother stood up to look in the woods behind them
and he saw the creature squatting down behind a tree. My brother then
moved to get a better look at it when it stood up and left. He then went
to look for it and saw it foot imprint on some leaves on the ground, he
said they weren't very good but he could see that its foot prints where
about 5 feet apart.
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- My older brother, his wife and 6 year
old son were riding on their 4 wheeler back in old 93 hollow. It was between
7:00pm -8:00pm when they saw what they thought to be a black bear walking
on its hind legs. They
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- stopped the 4 wheeler and turned off
the engine to watch it. When they did this the creature also stopped and
was watching them. My brother and His wife said the creature and they
looked at each other over a distance of around 800 yards for about 2 minutes.
My sister-in-law described it to me this way. When it turned to face
us, I could see through its legs. Its legs were not touching together.
Its arms hung down its side just above its knees, and its shoulder and
mid drift were real broad. It had fur from head to toe. Two minutes later
the creature took off into a stride across the field with its arms swinging
at its side and a slight bend to its form. At the end of the field it
turned and went into the woods. At that distance they could see it as
it walked through the woods. They figured it to be
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- about 8 - 9 feet tall. They said it
could not have been a bear walking on its hind legs covering the distance
it covered in the short time it covered it. They watched it enter into
the woods and then went home. When they got home their son, scared from
what he had just seen, started
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- crying. He swore to his mom he was never
going to ride his bike or motor bike in that hollow ever again.
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- The next day my brother took my younger
brother and my uncle back in the
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- hollow with him to see if they could
find any tracks this creature had made. They searched but did not find
any, it was over grass and it rained most of the night. So my older brother
gave up and went home leaving my younger brother and my uncle in the hollow.
Shortly after my
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- younger brother and uncle saw the creature.
They were in the same location as my other brother was the night before.
They watched it come out of the wooded area about 400 yards below them
and cross the road. It went down the a hill into a valley where they couldn't
see it. Then suddenly it came up
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- on the other side of the hill and walked
along side the edge of the field and entered the wooded area where it did
(or another) the night before. My brother got to see it through his binocular
and said it looked like a pro basket ball player but much more muscular
with fur from head to toe. He said all he could see was its back side
and it wasn't anything he had ever seen before. My brother also said he
yelled
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- at it but it didn't faze the creature
at all.
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- Two days later, in the morning my older
brother and his wife went to the
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- same area to go mushroom hunting. They
were in the power lines when they heard a loud knocking on one side in
the woods, like someone hitting something on a tree. Across on the other
side, where one old dilapidated house was, they heard something screaming.
My brother described it as a high pitch hunting dog scream. They said
this went on
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- continuously. My brother started to
walk down toward the house to see what it was. The closer he got the more
it spooked him, so he went back
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- and got on his 4 wheeler leaving his
wife on top of the power lines. His wife said when he started up his 4
wheeler and headed down the road toward the house the knocking got louder
and the screaming got louder and more intense. She said the one that was
in the woods knocking started crashing through the woods in the direction
that she was in, then stopped when it heard the 4 wheeler turning back.
My brother, who turned around because the screaming was so loud he heard
it over his loud 4 wheeler, then got his wife and left the area shaken
up a little. They didn't think the creature would be there in the morning,
they thought they slept during the day or something.
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- They and other people have gone back
to the same area in the two days since the last encounter and nothing was
found or heard.
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- ENVIRONMENT: Heavily wooded area with
dense under brush. Power Lines, an old strip mine. There is a River and
railroad tracks about a half mile from there. Abandoned, dilapidated brick
house. There are also some remains of an old barge loading facility (tie
down for the barges) at the river.
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- What were the witness(es) doing prior
to the incidents: Riding on their 4 wheelers, and looking for mushrooms.
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- Unusual things heard prior to, during
or after the incidents: knocking; screaming which sounded like a high
pitched hunting dog.
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- Witness Information: Confidential: (Contact
Information Supplied upon Request to researchers)
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- Uploaded to the BFRO database by Ron
Schaffner. Incidents currently under investigation by the curators. _________
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- Creature Chronicles http://home.fuse.net/rschaffner
Occam's Razor: If two hypotheses explain the data equally well, consider
choosing the simpler.
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