REPORT RECEIVED From:  The GCBRO Online Reports Submission page.
 

DATE:  05/15/57
 

TIME:  Middle Afternoon
 

LOCATION:   Casey County, Kentucky
 

LOCATION 2: Wilson Ridge

 
TERRAIN:  In the yard of a rural farmhouse near woods
 

OBSERVED:    My mother has repeatedly and consistently told a story about a warm spring day in Casey County Kentucky in 1957 that has caused me to stop and think about the possibilities, even though I am inclined to be skeptical about the existence of a large primate existing in North America.  My mother tells of a day when she was sitting in the front room of a small farmhouse sewing on a dress to wear to church, when she is terrified to hear her five year old son(my older brother) scream in horror and run from the backroom of the house where the backdoor was wide open except for a crude screen door. He jumped into her lap and clung to her necking sobbing and was repeatedly saying "mommy, mommy it is the hairy man, it is the hairy man, don't let it get me"!
 

Activities of Witness:   The child(my older brother) was playing.
 

Description of Creature:  N/A
 

Other Notes; My mother said that my older brother would not leave her side for most of the summer and would scream in terror when they would try to take him outside.  When he traveled in a car, he would cry until he was in the car or until he was back into the house. My older brother has always been a very stable person and is/was not prone to being out of touch with reality or having an over active imagination, he is simply a normal fellow. He enjoys talking to almost anyone, but when anyone tries to raise this topic with him, he becomes very uncomfortable and will not talk. Once the topic is raised, he becomes very quite for an extended period of time even after to topic of conversation is changed.  Despite my skepticism, I am firmly convinced he is haunted by a traumatic childhood memory that is very real.
 

Additional Notes or Comments: I was the product of a later marriage of my mother and my older brother and I have different fathers. My older brother chose to stay with my grandfather in Casey County and our mother and my father moved to Lexington, KY and therefore I did not have the rural farm experience of my brothers and uncles and so it is easy for me to be skeptical.  My skepticism is challenged by my having questioned them about what they have said they seen and getting consistent stories from each of them. Nary one of them have changed a detail of their story as I first heard it, even when I would make suggestions to provide them with an opportunity to add or exagerate their original account. While the description of the animal is described similarly by each individual, the description of their individual activities at the time of their sighting is very different, which suggests to me that they are each having a unique experience rather then retelling a story they heard told by someone else.  Although I am a skeptic these stories have a unsettling ring of truth that makes me wonder.