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DATE:
Mid 70s
TIME:
Just at nightfall
LOCATION:
Mercer Swamp, Mercer County PA, near the town of Mercer. Town
of Mercer is 1-2 miles away. Swamp is accessible from many areas - point
of entry unknown.
TERRAIN:
Swamp/marsh/interspersed
with deciduous forest.
OBSERVED: A co-worker of mine was deer hunting during archery season. He shot a deer with a compound bow and began tracking it, following the blood trail. He tracked it for quite a distance and he worried that he might not find it before dusk. Just at sunset, he found the carcass in a marshy area and beganfield dressing it. While doing this, he heard crackling and snapping of branches, apparently caused by a large animal approaching. At the edge of his visual range was a large red sumac tree and he felt that the animal was standing under or behind that tree. He wasn't able to actually see it, but at one point he thought he saw a pair of eyes next to the tree at a considerable height above the ground.
His initial reaction
was that the eyes belonged to an owl sitting on a branch, but then he thought
he heard some low
growls. Unnerved by now, he hacked off the hindquarters of the deer, threw
them over his shoulder, and beat a hasty retreat, resolving to return
in daylight for the
rest of the deer (he was also worried about violating game laws, since
it's illegal to hunt after dark). He returned the next day
to retrieve the rest
of the deer carcass, only to find it missing, including the whole pile
of entrails. Other than the blood stains left during gutting, there
was nothing left.
Examining the tree mentioned above, he found it to be about 15 feet tall
and estimated that he saw the eyes about halfway up. He
did not speculate as to what the animal might have been, and the suggestion
of a bigfoot did not come up in his account of the experience
- he presented it simply as an unexplained mystery.
This individual
was well-known to me, being my immediate supervisor for
8 years. He has been an experienced hunter, fisherman, and trapper since
childhood, and those pursuits are pretty nearly his whole life. I have
no questions
as to his veracity or his woodsmanship and he's a solid citizen -now a
corporate officer and former school board president. This account was
related to a group of
us around the lunch table at work sometime in the late 70s - early 80s
and I have not seen him since 1982. There was no real discussion
of the account at that time - it was just presented as a huntingstory.
If it happened now, I'd ask about tracks, smells, broken branches,
and other standard bigfoot
indicators.
Description
of Creature: None
Other
Notes: There have been numerous
well-presented accounts of sightings all through
western PA - eastern OH on some of the better bigfoot websites and in various
books. The entire area is heavily wooded with abundant game
population, farms, excellent
water supply, secluded wild areas - all the major life support systems
bigfoots (bigfeet?) would need to sustain life. While
this general area is also the most heavily populated and industrialized
area between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, in between the
numerous small towns
and villages are plenty of wild areas. I heard another first-hand personal
account of a sighting near West Middlesex PA (about 15 mi
from Mercer) in 1974, but doubt its reliability. The witness, a friend
of mine,
associated it with a UFO sighting and may have spun a yarn for my entertainment
since he knew of my interest in bigfoot.
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