McDowell County, West Virginia

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McDowell County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

August 1998

A unidentifiable creature meeting the description of bigfoot has been seen in Capels, West Virginia by several different sources. Many unidentifiable tracks can be found . Terrible screams have also been heard. Capels, is right outside of Welch, West Virginia, their are many places in the mountains that are rarely visited by Man. When seen, the creature ran, everytime. I hope someone will investigate this sighting. The internet is the only way I could think of to report this situation. I wish to remain anomynous so people will not think I am crazy. The creature was spotted twice by a hunter while he he was in the woods right before dusk. Once he was sitting in his truck, and once he was setting on his 4-wheeler. The vehicles were not running. His description was black, straight hair, walking on two legs, and atleast 8 feet tall. Redish eyes. He said it scared him so much that he started his engine, blew the horn , and got the hell out of there. It took a year before he went b...

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