NAME... Kathy Sills
DATE OF INCIDENT... Fall of 1979
TIME... Appx. 2 o'clock a.m.
WITNESSES... Roger A. B. (my ex-husband) and myself (Kathy Sills)
LOCATION... State Route 205 appx. three miles from Jelloway (Knox county).
TERRAIN... Hilly location... is by an abandonded house where my cousin raises sheep.
WEATHER... Fall night... clear.
HOW CLOSE TO THE CREATURE... Appx. 10 feet
HEIGHT OF CREATURE... Crawling out of ditch, semi-standing. My guess is about 5 1/2 feet.
COLOR... Golden reddish.
WEIGHT... Appx. 150 pounds.
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT... I was about 17 years old. Roger (my boyfriend at the time, my ex-husband now) and I had been to a square dance in Zanesville until midnight. We were on the way back to my parents home in Jelloway. We were traveling toward Jelloway on S.R. 205 and the very sharp turn where my cousin owns property as stated above where he raises sheep. Roger slowed down to negotiate the curve which put us at about 20 m.p.h. At this time we both saw something crawling out of the left hand ditch. I kinda screamed and my first thought was that it was an old man who had had a wreck and was just getting out onto the road. A second look instantly told me otherwise. It looked like it had sort of a mane type fur around its face and its face was sorta concave looking. Its eyes were sorta slit-like but shined in the car headlights and it stopped like it had been startled by us and just watched as we passed. It loked human-like in form with what appeared to be a smooth "coat" of golden, reddish brown fur.

When it had been crawling out of the ditch I thought it was a man because of the way the arms were jointed, not like that of an animal but like a human.

Roger wanted to go to another cousins who lived at the next house about 1/2 mile away, but I said "NO, take me home!" We went to my house and immediatelly woke mom and dad up and told them the whole story. Mom asked the cousin who owns the sheep if he had ever seen anything strange when he was there and told him the story and he just thought it was funny.

I DO NOT THINK IT WAS FUNNY!

I still travel that same road to visit my mom and every time we pass what I call "creep corner" my doors are locked and I get through there as soon as possible. I am scared and the goose bumps rise on my arms the most, because we were so close to whatever that was and it defnately saw us.

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