Columbia County, Pennsylvania

Near Orangeville

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Columbia County Pennsylvania (Class B) BFRO

August 1989

Was out late one night walking my Beagle before retiring for the night. We live in a somewhat rual area, the village of Orangeville has a population of about 600 or so. Because of the town make up at that time, very few people were up at that hour. so, in walking west up the road with the mountain to the north of us, all the hoses on the hill were dark and quiet with ony a dog or two barking. I had walked my dog about 300 yards up the road, about 200 yards away from the closest house. At this point the woods coming down from the mountain are right next to the road. We had just stoped and were beginning our walk back to the house when my dog stoped and looked up at the mountain. His hair on his back stood up and he started growling. I looked up to where he was staring and didn't see any kind of movement or hear or smell anything different. After about 10 seconds I tried to coax the dog into heading back to the house, but he did not move. About 30 seconds after the dog first ...

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Columbia County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Two campers are chased from an apple orchard by a 5.5 foot tall hair covered creature.

One of my friends and I were camping on his family's land near Catawissa. It was just the two of us late at night. We were sitting by the camp fire talking when we noticed we needed more wood for the ...

April 1993