Man hears creature walking - it growls/screams at him. Mentions brother's sighting in same area

Oregonbigfoot.com file# 01397

REPORT OVERVIEW

Date: august , 1982
Carroll county, OH
Nearest town:
Bergholz
Nearest road:
State Route 164
Conditions:
clear
Time:
night
Location:
Along Orlon Rd.(A township road)about 400ft from it's intersection with St. Rt. 164.

REPORT DETAIL

Description of event: When I was 18 years old I was walking home from my neighbor’s house at about 10pm. To my right was a pasture field. To my left was a corn field of about 7 acres with woods beyond that.

Often deer would walk through the corn field and that was normal. But this night I heard something crunching through the field somewhere to my left quite a ways down into the corn field. I figured it was just deer. But the further I walked down the road the closer this thing walked toward where I was walking. I kind of got nervous when it seemed there was something rather large walking in the field just 10 or 15 feet away from me so as I neared my yard I got ready to turn way from the field and head up the hill to my house. But then whatever it was came very rapidly at me crashing through the corn and then it screamed/growled. I say screamed/growled because it was a mixture of the two and it was LOUD. It was a sound I will never forget...even after all these years I still get chills. Needless to say as soon as I heard it coming at me I turned and ran faster than I ever have up the hill to my house...AND I DIDN'T LOOK BACK. Therefore, I have no eye-witness description of the creature but I can tell you that I have lived here for 41 years and I have seen and heard every animal that lives in this part of Ohio and I can't explain what this was. Unfortunately, it rained by morning so when my cousin and I went out to look for tracks the next day we were not able to make out exactly what they were. But there were tracks...from the woods all the way to the road where I had my encounter...they were large but they had no good detail due to the heavy rain over night. I wish I had known that there were others that would believe me at the time. But I told some people and got "the look" that said maybe I was imagining it. So I dropped it...but I never forgot.
Incidentally, my brother swears he had a sighting about 15 years or so before that just a few hundred yards away from mine. On the way home he saw a VERY large, black, man-like creature cross Rt. 164. This was at night as well. He still stands by his story to this day.

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