DATE:
Late 1994
or very early 1995
TIME:
Between 1:00 and 3:00 A.M., EST.
LOCATION:
South Carolina, on State
Hwy. 24, between Walhalla and Westminister town’s, Oconee County.
TERRAIN:
Very heavily wooded, with houses few and
far between. Also witness reported that there were many large
apple orchards near the few houses on that stretch of the highway.
OBSERVED:
Interview date: October 9, 1998
Q.
What would you say the weather was like at the time of your sighting?
A.
It was clear.
Q.
Was the moon out?
A.
I’m not sure about that. I didn’t think there was (moon out) as there
wasn’t much to see outside the
headlights (of her car).
Q.
The location of the sighting was where?
A.
On Hwy. 24, between Walhalla and Westminister.
Q.
Had you met any other cars on the road at that time of night?
A.
At that time of night, there wasn’t that much traffic.
Q.
O.K. Describe the event in your own words, providing as much details
as you can. What you were doing, who was with you, and report any
odd smells or sounds as best as you can.
A.
O.K., XXXXX (her best friend) and I was returning from Cherokee, N.C.
We were originally planning to spend the night there, but we didn’t like
the new casino they opened there at Cherokee, and so we decided instead
of spending the night at Cherokee, we decided then just to come on back
home. …And I was driving…and somewhere in the road on Hwy.
24, between Walhalla and Westminister my headlights…at the extreme range
of my headlights…I saw something crossing the road! And the
reason…it…just didn’t look…like a normal animal crossing the road and I
immediately slowed down. My first thought was that it was a wounded
animal. …The way it was moving. And then I put on my
brakes and slowed down and that got XXXXX's attention…and she sat up and
looked up also. …And by the time we got to it, it had already crossed
the road and had stopped on the bank on the passenger side (of the car)
…and was just looking at us when I drove by. And we were doing
45 or 50 mph. Normally, on that highway, at that time of the morning,
I could do 60 mph because it was such an open straight stretch through
there, …But because I thought it was a wounded animal, I had slowed down
and after a few minutes of silence (after passing the animal), I looked
at XXXXX, and she looked at me, and we both said, “What the heck was that?”
…And XXXXX tried to get me to turn around and go back, she wanted to check
it out further, but I…just from what I had seen….and I didn’t know what
it was, I was not going back!
Q. When
you passed it, did you see a face?
A. I saw
a face.... I saw a face, and I guess to the day I die, I will always see
the face. …And I don’t believe those details will ever leave
my mind, but that was…..It just seemed to me, that there was so much hatred
in the face…..so much meanness in the eyes of whatever that was.
That’s what really sticks in my mind, is just the menacing look that was
in that face.
Q. Did
the eyes reflect when you passed it?
A. The
eyes to me reflected red, and that made it look just that much more menacing,
and it had hair…..like bushy around its head, but it had hair all over
its body…but, the hair on the rest of its body was shorter, you know, more
like a dog or something that had short hair.
Q. When
you say that, do you mean it might look like a woman with long hair?
A. It would
have been too bushy…it was…I want to say it wasn’t curly…it was just a
mass of hair, you know, like, sort of like a lion’s mane, but not that
long and not that flowing. …It (was) just all around its face.
(Witness took her hands and made a circle around her face)
Q. When
you saw it (on passing) was it upright or on all fours?
A. Uh…It
was in the process of climbing the bank on the other side of the road and
had one paw in front of the other.
(Telephone call
interruption)
Q. I think we
were talking about its face, XXXXXX, and how it was on that bank.
Did it have hair on its face?
A. Yeah, it had
hair on its face. The hair on its face was shorter then the hair
around its head…some white around the more longer hair. There was
white in it (the white was in the long hair around its face).
Q. Was
there any white hair down on its body?
A. The
position it was in, I couldn’t see the chest. All I got was a look
from the back (of it) with one paw, hand, or whatever it was, one in front
of the other, as it was going up that bank and it just stopped and turned
its head to look at the car in it approaching, and just watched us go by.
As far as seeing it from the front, I didn’t.
Q. Did
you see any teeth?
A. No.
Uh Huh. Its mouth, it wasn’t open.
Q. What
did it (animal) look like to you? A monkey? A gorilla or a
bear?
A. It looked
more like a gorilla than a monkey, and definitely not a bear.
Q. Did
you notice its nose? Did you catch a glance at its nose at all?
A. You
know, its nose and some of the features were almost human-like as far as
the way it was placed, but its nose was more flatter – was more flat than
a humans.
Q. Would
you say that the arms were as long as a man’s or longer?
A. Oh,
they were longer! It really had to have been (longer than a man’s
arms) for the way it was positioned and how far those hands was out in
front of it, up that bank, and one in front of the other, like it was getting…you
know…ready to climb up on that bank. But it stopped, just stopped
like in mid-climb. It just stopped and looked, because I guess it
knew we were going to be on it before it could leave.
Q. Do you
remember anything about the hips, or the legs, or the feet, or anything
else?
A. UH…just
from what I have seen on TV of watching the gorillas, and it didn’t look
like a big, …like a gorilla’s behind, it was like a smaller monkey.
…I don’t know if you understand what I’m saying. …But it wasn’t like
it was real wide.
Q. Then
it was more slim hipped?
A. Uh Huh.
It was slimmer.
Q. Would
you say the thighs were pretty heavy looking?
A. I really
didn’t have time. What caught me was the face…the upper part of the
body…just looking into that face!
Q. So you
were mainly concentrating on the face?
A. Well,
when I went by, I was trying to figure out what it was.
Q. And
how high was the embankment then, was it steep, or sloping?
A. It was
sloping, but it was a tall bank…in front of a house. And I do want
to take you there where I saw it crossing that road then.
Q. Would
you say it was taller than your car? (Pontiac Bonneville)
A. Yes,
it was taller than my car. (In talking to this witness a few days
before she had told me the animal she saw crossing the road was the size
of a horse).
Q. When
you saw it cross the road was it on all fours or straight up on two legs?
A. It was
on all fours when it was crossing the road. It was longer, is the
reason I say that it was on all fours. It was too long to be up on
two feet. But it still looked like it was injured or something the
way it was trying to maneuver on all fours. In other words it was
like a deer or something that had been shot, and it was…it’s just really
so hard to describe it.
Q. In other
words it was just moving slow.
A. It was
moving VERY slow.
Q. It took
it some time then to cross the road?
A. Yes.
Q. What
color was it as far as you could tell?
A. Oh,
it was black, very black, except for the white in the long hair on its
head.
Activities
of Witness: Eyewitnesses
were en-route between Cherokee, N.C. and Anderson, S.C.
Description
of Creature:
Other
Notes:
Nothing else was reported except for the fact that the eye witness reporting
the incident kept repeating that the animal definitely looked crippled
or wounded in some way.
Researcher
Notes:
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