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Gulf Coast BigFoot Research Organization
(G.C.B.R.O.)

Reported by: Confidential

Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On  August 1, 2007

DATE:    August 12, 1980 
 

TIME:     After dark, probably 10-11 pm 
 

LOCATION:   Ashland County, Ohio 
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded 
 

OBSERVED:    We were camping with a 4-6 other families and the tents were basically in a big circle with a large bonfire in the middle . the actual tents were under some pine trees with a more open area where the adults were sitting around the fire talking a distance in front of the row of tents. I left the campfire to check on the kids sleeping in our tent and had to walk in front of a few of the tents to get to ours.

As I passed the tent next to mine there was what i take to be a young bigfoot standing behind and between the tents, out of the bright light from the fire but i could still see it clearly. It was about my height, which is 5'7". I probably wasn't more than 20-25 ft away from it but didn't smell anything like some say they smell.  I would call it grayish brown hairy over it's body( not real long hair,  a little longer than gorilla hair but not really long like it was flowing, but not hairy on it's face. It's face was not like a person's but not like an gorilla or any other ape i have seen either, the facial features were flatter, more like a person's (not the big rounded jaw an ape has) but not anyway human  like i could think it was really a person.( sorry it 's hard to describe) the eyes deep set but not as deeply set as a gorilla's and looked amber( maybe due to the firelight reflection) and the nose wasn't as wide as a gorillas..more human like  . it had hair on the sides of it's head but i didn't see any ears or anything else I stopped dead in my tracks and it stared at me and I stared at it. It startled  me since I didn't expect to see it but it never moved, giving me the impression it was just as scared. I think it was young because it was small and also seemed innocent( ok i know that sounds crazy) like it was just curious not out to hurt us. it shook me up so  I went back to the fire and it disappeared.  
 

Activities of Witness:   Like i said, we were sitting around a campfire after dinner talking, no one was drunk or anything like that. it was a family camping trip with kids.  
 

Description of Creature:  See above
 

Other Notes:    I never saw or heard anything in the rest of the trip but we stopped going to that campground after that yr. I always ( in the trips before and that one) got a creepy feeling at that campground like we were being watched and it was never busy there, a lot of times we were the only group there. 
 

Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes:    N/A
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments N/A


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