Estill Co., Bear Mountain - July 1993

While hiking on Bear Mt. in Eastern KY. the witness had been hearing an odd tapping noise which seemed to be coming from a briar thicket. He then noticed a dark brownish figure about 250 yards away. Raising his binoculars, he saw that a creature sitting on a log with its back to him with a rock in its hand and beating on the side of the log. There was no neck, and the hands looked human...that is, four fingers and a thumb.He could see the dark greyish hand as it beat upon the logs side. It had a back that was at least 2.5 feet across and covered in short, thick reddish brown hair. Head was conical, like a lowland gorilla, and when it suddenly stood up and looked in the witness' direction,he could see that it had a bulged forehead near the eyebrows, large dark round eyes and a flared gorilla like nose. The jaw was slightly long to the chest, but did not protrude at the mouth. The nose and eyes areas were free of hair, the skin also dark gray. But the nose, mouth and chin were covered in hair. (Sort of like a hairy Ninja hood). "The creature was HUGE! I later looked at a tree it was standing near and it had to be near 7ft tall. It stared up the mountain at me, and made a peculiar motion with its head, waving it from side to side, and seemed to hunch over a bit with its arms dangling at it's knees. It then turned and dashed off thru the thicket."

(credit: IBS)