While walking home alone at night, man encounters a large, hairy, human-like creature. witnessed in Cambria County, Pennsylvania

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In January of 1979, I was visiting some friends at their farm in Cambria County, just outside of Patton, Pennsylvania. They had recently had one of their beef cattle butchered and I was helping wrap the meat. Their farm was at the top of a ridge, and could only be reached via a gravel and dirt lane winding through the woods approximately 1/2 mile. My mother had told me if I wanted a ride home I was to meet her at the bottom of their lane at 7pm, as she would be returning from town. (unless you had a 4 wheel drive you could not make it up their lane with snow and ice). I had dallied around and stayed too long to meet my mother, It was about 9:30pm and my friends father asked me if I wanted a ride to my uncles house (where we were staying). My friends were making fun at me for needing a ride home, so I turned it down. I had walked home at night numerous times during both winter and summer. They gave me a nap sack to put a few steaks in for my help, and a large metal flashligh...