Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center

1915 ANN ARUNDEL KURT FRIEND RIP LYTTLE MAR, 1991 9 PM TR31 SEPT 93 3
7-8 FT BF ACCOSTS MAN, SEEN BY COP [Full Report]

1215 ANNE ARUNDEL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS Fisher, Randal JULY, 2000 TR99 NEWS ARTICLE 3
12 FT BF, BLACK, 15-20 IN TRACK [Full Report]

449 ANNE ARUNDEL Ronald Jones PLACE , MISG Bigfoot All Over The Country;” 1978; Marian T. Place, 2
BF seen 7-8 ft tall; 4-500 lbs; long dark brown hair;odor;scratch truck;screams [Full Report]

2162 BALTIMORE BALTIMORE SUN RIP LYTTLE M, 1990-91 TR 42 OCT 94-BALTIMORE SUN 0
MOTH MAN TURNS INTO GLOWING BALL, DISAPPEARS [Full Report]

3454 BALTIMORE Bill Wells Bill Wells JUL, 1999 TR 90 AUG 1999 3
18 IN TRACK IN MUD, DOG UPSET, LEG OF DEAD DEER FOUND, SCREAM [Full Report]

3530 BALTIMORE Bill Wells RIP LYTTLE JUL, 1999 TR 92 OCT 1999 0
18 IN TRACK IN MUD, SCREAM, DOG UPSET, POSSIBLE HOAX [Full Report]

2558 CECIL TR 56 APR 96 CRC , MID 1940s TR 56 APR 96 3
GORILLA HUNTS, GIRL CARRIED OFF BY BF [Full Report]

2610 CHARLES SCOTT BOB CHANCE JUN, 1996 TR 59 JUL 96 1
VOCALIZATION , DOGS UPSET, FOLLOWED IN WOODS [Full Report]

2504 HARTFORD YOUNG BOY RIP BERRY , 1914 TR 55 MAR 96-BF ON THE EAST COAST, BERRY 3
BF SEEN SITTING ON LOG [Full Report]

2506 HARTFORD RIP LYTTLE RIP LYTTLE , 1971 TR 55 MAR 96 1
DEAD THING ON ROADSIDE...A DEAD HAIRY BABY? [Full Report]

2503 HARTFORD Bob Chance Rip Lyttle , 1984 TR 55 MAR 96 3
LARGE HAIR COVERED HUMAN LAYING IN ROAD, EMERGENCY VEHICLES [Full Report]

862 HOWARD WITNESS CRC SUMMER, 1977 TR85 3
TRACKS, CABLE SPOOL TAKEN [Full Report]

3312 HOWARD RESIDENT BFRO SUMMER, 1977 TR 85 MAR 1999 BFRO 3
TRACKS FOUND, CABLE SPOOL TABLE MISSING [Full Report]

3994 HOWARD construction workers RANDY FISHER JUL, 2000 TR 99 JULY 2000 Baltimore Sun 3
12 FT BLACK, 15-20 IN TRACK [Full Report]

1864 M UNK WAYNE FENNER WINTER, 1977-78 M TR30 2
3 TOED 19 & 12 IN TRACKS, 2 BF HUNTING TOGETHER, BF AT CAVES, BONES STACKED [Full Report]

592 MONTGOMERY John Cormer and John GARAFOLO Rip Lyttle WINTER, 1996 TR72 1
7 FT BF , VOCALIZATION [Full Report]

2936 MONTGOMERY John Cormer and John Garafolo Rip Lyttle WINTER, 1996-97 TR 72 OCT 97 3
7 FT BF SEEN IN QUARRY, SCREAMING [Full Report]

2505 WASHINGTON WITNESS RIP BERRY , 1988 TR 55 MAR 96--Bigfoot 0n The East Coast, BERRY 3
MONKEY-LIKE CREATURE SEEN [Full Report]

1820 YORK DRIVER NORVAL THOMAS WAYNE FENNER MARCH, 1978 M TR29, AND YORK DAILY RECORD 2
8-10 FT BF JUMPS IN FRONT OF TRUCK, ODOR, HOWLS, 3 TOES [Full Report]

IBS Report #: 1915

Location: ANN ARUNDEL county, MD. United States

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 00' N
Longitude: 076˚ 37' W
Day: 28
Month: MAR
Year: 1991
Time: 9 PM
Elevation: 82

Data Source: TR31 SEPT 93
Credibility: 3
Locality: BETWEEN PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY AND CHESAPEKE BY
Researcher: RIP LYTTLE
Witness: KURT FRIEND

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 7-8 FT BF ACCOSTS MAN, SEEN BY COP

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tr31 * Sept. 7, '93, from Kurt of MD. A friend and coworker of mine share a hobby, monitoring police calls with a scanner. On march 28, 1991, Anne Arundel county (between Prince George County and Chesapeake Bay, MD), at about 9:00 PM, he was monitoring the county frequency and heard the police responding to a call by a very upset man who claimed he had been accosted by a "7-8 foot tall hairy thing" in the woods. The police were treating it seriously, as the man was very distraught. It is possible that one of the responding officers caught a glimpse of something. Ann Arundel county has a lot of wooded area and several state parks and Wildlife Refuges. It is still possible to hunt deer in the county. (Rip Lytle met a county officer that had talked to the policeman, and confirmed that he had actually seen a BF, Rip says, but there were no details.)
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IBS Report #: 1215

Location: ANNE ARUNDEL county, MD. United States

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 12' N
Longitude: 076˚ 38' W
Day: 31
Month: JULY
Year: 2000
Time: MIDNIGHT & 3AM
Elevation: 160

Data Source: TR99 NEWS ARTICLE
Credibility: 3
Locality: Arundel Hills construction site, HANOVER
Researcher: Fisher, Randal
Witness: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 12 FT BF, BLACK, 15-20 IN TRACK

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MD ANNE ARUNDEL 2000 160 FT 391208N 0763816W * From:rfisher@amerix.com (Fisher, Randal). RayCrowe@aol.com,July 31st MD sighting Here is the Baltimore Sun article about the incident. (Thanks Randy) Tales of creatures are tall on interest, short on details Animal sighting lures media to Arundel Hills, By Laura Barnhardt, Sun Staff The sighting of a 12-foot-tall, black, mystery creature seen lurking in the dark of night near the Arundel Hills construction site sparked a media frenzy yesterday in the light of day. The report of the "strange sighting" was checked by police early Monday morning and quickly became a joke about the sighting of an imaginary Loch Ness Monster from the Severn River. State wildlife officials were called in to search the area yesterday, where the large, unidentified beast that walked upright had scared several construction workers. The workers said they were awakened just past midnight Monday while napping in a van at the mall site in Hanover. Yesterday, reporters from television shows questioned police and Department of Natural Resources officials as they gathered in the area. County workers laughed about the tourism possibilities for the county's Sasquatch. But County Executive Janet S. Owens' spokesman remained serious, expressing Owens' concern that Arundel Hills mall open Nov. 16. The frightened workers said the "thing" ran past them so fast they weren't sure what it was. After fleeing to a nearby fast-food restaurant, they called police, who dispatched an off-duty officer working security at the site. He had trouble persuading the men to return to where they say they first spotted the animal. Later, when the officer and the workers caught another glimpse of the creature, the workers ran away again. Hours later, the officer spotted a large animal in the dark with his floodlight , but it was unclear whether it was the same beast spotted earlier by the workers. DNR sent a regional wildlife biologist to the construction site, but the search for the animal or its prints came up empty, said Susan O'Brien, a department spokeswoman. "It was most likely the bear spotted on [Route] 295 not two or three miles from that site," O'Brien said. The female bear, which had been with a small cub killed by a car on the road, would have weighed at most about 300 pounds and would be about 5 feet tall if it stood upright, she said. She said the animal might have looked much larger - distorted by the witnesses' fear and horror and by poor lighting. That is, if the bear was the same animal that terrified the construction workers. The officer reported finding a 15- to 20-inch-long print and seeing a large animal near a pond on the construction site about 3 a.m. Although the print would have been too large to be from a bear - even a large one - O'Brien said it was possible that the animal had slid in the dirt, creating an elongated print. Bears have been sighted by residents in the Baltimore area recently, she said. If confronted by a bear, residents should make their presence known by standing straight, talking and then backing away slowly in a nonconfrontational manner, said O'Brien. Originally published on Aug 2, 2000
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IBS Report #: 449

Location: ANNE ARUNDEL county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +038˚ 58' N
Longitude: 076˚ 29' W
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Year: MISG
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Elevation: 22

Data Source: Bigfoot All Over The Country;” 1978; Marian T. Place,
Credibility: 2
Locality: Anne Arundel County road
Researcher: PLACE
Witness: Ronald Jones

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BF seen 7-8 ft tall; 4-500 lbs; long dark brown hair;odor;scratch truck;screams

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MD,Anne Arundel,38,58,76,29,d,m,y,t,22,Place78,2, Sighting,Anne Arundel County road, BF seen 7-8 ft tall; 4-500 lbs; long dark brown hair;odor;scratch truck;screams, Ronald Jones of Anne Arundel Co; VA; driving pickup on county road and saw BF 7-8 ft tall; 4-500#. Long dark brown hair; stong pungent odor; creature went into tobacco field; creature screamed when hit with tire iron. Long deep scratches and two dents in truck. .“Bigfoot All Over The Country;” 1978; Marian T. Place,
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IBS Report #: 2162

Location: BALTIMORE county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 25' N
Longitude: 076˚ 32' W
Day: M
Month: M
Year: 1990-91
Time: M
Elevation: 243

Data Source: TR 42 OCT 94-BALTIMORE SUN
Credibility: 0
Locality: LOCH RAVEN, Susquehanah State Park
Researcher: RIP LYTTLE
Witness: BALTIMORE SUN

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: MOTH MAN TURNS INTO GLOWING BALL, DISAPPEARS

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* Oct 1994 TR 42 Rip Lyttle says he investigated a story at Loch Raven in Susquehanah State Park west of Baltimore, RI, 3-4 years ago. Seems the Moth man was luminescent, only turned into a glowing ball and disappeared. Rip said it was written up in the Baltimore Sun at the time
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IBS Report #: 3454

Location: BALTIMORE county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +039˚ 21' N
Longitude: 076˚ 20' W
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Month: JUL
Year: 1999
Time:
Elevation: 39

Data Source: TR 90 AUG 1999
Credibility: 3
Locality: Gunpowder State Park
Researcher: Bill Wells
Witness: Bill Wells

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 18 IN TRACK IN MUD, DOG UPSET, LEG OF DEAD DEER FOUND, SCREAM

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TR 90 AUG 1999 * Report from kurtz_saclive@email.msn.com (Bill Wells) At Gunpowder Falls State Park, MD, July 1999. Large 18 in track found on muddy riverside. Four toes showing, width about 6 in. Golden Retriever dog became very anxious and aggressive, growled and clung to witness leg with tail tucked down. Investigator Dave B. found the leg of a dead deer directly in the hikers path. A week later on the path there was another footprint that was photographed. An eerie scream was heard in the distance.
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IBS Report #: 3530

Location: BALTIMORE county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +039˚ 23' N
Longitude: 076˚ 21' W
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Month: JUL
Year: 1999
Time:
Elevation: 0

Data Source: TR 92 OCT 1999
Credibility: 0
Locality: Gunpowder Falls State Park
Researcher: RIP LYTTLE
Witness: Bill Wells

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 18 IN TRACK IN MUD, SCREAM, DOG UPSET, POSSIBLE HOAX

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TR 92 OCT 1999 * This report, filed in TR#90, is apparently a hoax. Bill wrote and denied knowing about it. Report from kurtz_saclive@email.msn.com (Bill Wells) At Gunpowder Falls State Park, MD, July 1999. Large 18 in track found on muddy riverside. Four toes showing, width about 6 in. Golden Retriever dog became very anxious and aggressive. Growled and clung to witness leg with tail tucked down. Investigator Dave B, found the leg of a dead deer directly in the hikers path. A week later on the path there was another footprint that was photographed, An eerie scream was heard in the distance, Last month's TR report at Gunpowder. MD. Riplytt (Rip Lyttle). Ray. I'd like to submit a follow-up on the report in last month's Track Record about footprints found in Gunpowder Falls State Park, Harford County/Baltimore County in July 1999. The report appears to be questionable unless you spoke directly to the person who submitted report. The lister of the report was kurtz_saclive@email.msn.com (BiII Wells). Upon contacting Mr. Wells by email. he emailed me back stating "he filed no such report, doesn't know about the Track Record" (editor...1 had the same reply from Bill). He lives in California. and once subscribed to an Internet Bigfoot forum, and he surmised that someone may have used his email handle, and even mentioned (deleted...you know who don't you?) by name. The area has been active in BF reports as late as the 80's and Gunpowder forest is excellent bottom land jungle forest. We hiked a 4 mile stretch of it Saturday and it was remindful of out west with high hills and quarries above the 20' wide river. And I've hiked it extensively before in '96 & '97, On both sides of the trail which is bisected by Rt. 1 South. This weekend I heard tree knocking twice in a minute (each time with 7? like-sounding straight knocks (almost woodpecker but heftier) when I "paused and refreshed" for minutes on banks of little Gunpowder just west of Fallston. MD. Please put this in your next Track Record that a member of the WBS has followed up. You should know nothing gets by me here in MD. Rip Lyttle
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IBS Report #: 2558

Location: CECIL county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 22' N
Longitude: 075˚ 53' W
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Year: MID 1940s
Time:
Elevation: 49

Data Source: TR 56 APR 96
Credibility: 3
Locality: NR Fredericktown
Researcher: CRC
Witness: TR 56 APR 96

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: GORILLA HUNTS, GIRL CARRIED OFF BY BF

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TR 56 APR 96 * TR 56 APR 96 April 16, 1996. (Hair sample included with letter...sample to Dr. Fahrenbach and to Dr. Kojo) ...1 have made an effort to not embellish or exaggerate. My father told me about gorilla hunts that he went on near Fredericktown, MO, in the mid 1940's, while my father was dating my mother. My grandfather owned a large wooded property about five miles southwest of town. A family of tall hairy ape-people were said to live on his land. My aunt was a young girl then. She disappeared for a couple of days. They found her wandering in the woods a couple of days later. She had gray streaks in her hair and said she had been carried off by an ape-man. She is now a nun in (deleted).
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IBS Report #: 2610

Location: CHARLES county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +038˚ 29' N
Longitude: 076˚ 55' W
Day: 30
Month: JUN
Year: 1996
Time: 9:30 PM
Elevation: 33

Data Source: TR 59 JUL 96
Credibility: 1
Locality: 20 NE BELAIR, JAMES RUN
Researcher: BOB CHANCE
Witness: SCOTT

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: VOCALIZATION , DOGS UPSET, FOLLOWED IN WOODS

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* Rip Lyttle called 7/3. He had heard of a recent report from northern Maryland from Bob Chance, and gone out to investigate himself. About 20 miles NE of Belair, 8/10 mile off route 136, June 30th, about 9:30 PM, Scott dropped off his girlfriend. They heard noises that they thought was a deer, then six terrifying cries, and then thought it was a cougar or bobcat. There is a huge quarry nearby that has a lake and a beaver pond. Rip talked to Scott on James Run and he said his dogs had become very agitated, and he had heard strange sounds moving around and breaking sticks and screaming on occasion in the forest. His sister-in-law and her kids had something pacing them in the woods about a mile away from his house (July 1). When they stopped, it stopped, when they moved, it moved. They rushed home. A note from Bob Chance, 7/18, Susquehannock Environmental Center, Inc., PO Box 287, Bel Air, MD 2104) "Think the James Run incident was probably a bobcat or cougar. Rip investigated it, but the analysis was incomplete. Have some recent interesting situations by fisherman at Broad Creek boat dock but again believe it to be cougar or bobcat." Thanks for the follow up Bob.
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IBS Report #: 2504

Location: HARTFORD county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 33' N
Longitude: 076˚ 14' W
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Year: 1914
Time:
Elevation: 436

Data Source: TR 55 MAR 96-BF ON THE EAST COAST, BERRY
Credibility: 3
Locality: NR CHURCHVILLE
Researcher: RIP BERRY
Witness: YOUNG BOY

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BF SEEN SITTING ON LOG

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TR 55 MAR 96 Rip Berry's book, Bigfoot 0n The East Coast, 1993, lists some 232 Bigfoot reports from Maryland, a lot for such a tiny state (Rick Berry, PO Box 106, Stuarts Draft, VA 24477). The oldest Hartford County record was 1914, near Churchville, at Glenville road and Rt. 155, a young boy saw a tall, hairy, man-like creature sitting on a log. recent, in 1988, when a huge monkey-like creature was seen on Kalmia Road near Forge Hill.
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IBS Report #: 2506

Location: HARTFORD county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

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Year: 1971
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Data Source: TR 55 MAR 96
Credibility: 1
Locality: I-95
Researcher: RIP LYTTLE
Witness: RIP LYTTLE

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: DEAD THING ON ROADSIDE...A DEAD HAIRY BABY?

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TR 55 MAR 96 Rip said he was traveling that same road in 1971-, northbound, still in MD, when he thought he saw a two or three foot dead thing...a dead hairy baby child, lying along the wooded median strip of the road. Not interested at the time in Bigfoot, being only 19 years old, he kept on going, rationalizing to himself that it had to be a bear. There are still reports coming in to this day from that area, Rip said.
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IBS Report #: 2503

Location: HARTFORD county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 36' N
Longitude: 075˚ 50' W
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Year: 1984
Time:
Elevation: 30

Data Source: TR 55 MAR 96
Credibility: 3
Locality: HY 95, HARTFORD CO
Researcher: Rip Lyttle
Witness: Bob Chance

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: LARGE HAIR COVERED HUMAN LAYING IN ROAD, EMERGENCY VEHICLES

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TR 55 MAR 96 * Rip Lyttle (301-270-3152) called 3/27, and said he had talked to a Bigfoot researcher, Bob Chance, that reported in 1984 he and his wife were traveling south on Route 95, just into Hartford County, in northern MD, a heavily wooded area, and saw emergency vehicles. His wife saw a very large, hair covered, human being laying in the road. They didn't stop.
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IBS Report #: 862

Location: HOWARD county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +036˚ 16' N
Longitude: 076˚ 48' W
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Month: SUMMER
Year: 1977
Time:
Elevation: 233

Data Source: TR85
Credibility: 3
Locality: ELLICOTT CITY
Researcher: CRC
Witness: WITNESS

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: TRACKS, CABLE SPOOL TAKEN

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MD HOWARD 1977 TR#85 36 16N 76 48W 233 FT * In the summer of 1977, witness lived on Windflower Court, Ellicott City, MD, on an acre of land, with farms and forest nearby. One day, a cable spool picnic table was missing. They could see a path where it had been partly rolled and sometimes carried toward the deeply forested area. Large, human-like footprints were seen along the path. Eventually the spool was found a mile away where it had been tossed into a steep gully... something they didn’t think a bunch of kids had done The footprints were much larger than my size 10 shoe.
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IBS Report #: 3312

Location: HOWARD county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +039˚ 16' N
Longitude: 076˚ 48' W
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Month: SUMMER
Year: 1977
Time:
Elevation: 180

Data Source: TR 85 MAR 1999 BFRO
Credibility: 3
Locality: Ellicott City
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: RESIDENT

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: TRACKS FOUND, CABLE SPOOL TABLE MISSING

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TR 85 MAR 1999 * In the summer of 1977, witness lived on Windflower Court, Ellicott City, MD, on an acre of land, with farms and forest nearby. One day, a cable spool picnic table was missing. They could see a path where it had been partly rolled and sometimes carried toward the deeply forested area. Large, human-like footprints were seen along the path. Eventually the spool was found a mile away where it had been tossed into a steep gully... something they didn’t think a bunch of kids had done The footprints were much larger than my size 10 shoe.
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IBS Report #: 3994

Location: HOWARD county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 11' N
Longitude: 076˚ 43' W
Day: 30
Month: JUL
Year: 2000
Time: 12M
Elevation: 112

Data Source: TR 99 JULY 2000 Baltimore Sun
Credibility: 3
Locality: Arundel Mills, HANOVER
Researcher: RANDY FISHER
Witness: construction workers

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 12 FT BLACK, 15-20 IN TRACK

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TR 99 JULY 2000 * From:rfisher@amerix.com (Fisher, Randal). RayCrowe@aol.com,July 31st MD sighting Here is the Baltimore Sun article about the incident. (Thanks Randy) Tales of creatures are tall on interest, short on details Animal sighting lures media to Arundel Mills, By Laura Barnhardt, Sun Staff The sighting of a 12-foot-tall, black, mystery creature seen lurking in the dark of night near the Arundel Mills construction site sparked a media frenzy yesterday in the light of day. The report of the "strange sighting" was checked by police early Monday morning and quickly became a joke about the sighting of an imaginary Loch Ness Monster from the Severn River. State wildlife officials were called in to search the area yesterday, where the large, unidentified beast that walked upright had scared several construction workers. The workers said they were awakened just past midnight Monday while napping in a van at the mall site in Hanover. Yesterday, reporters from television shows questioned police and Department of Natural Resources officials as they gathered in the area. County workers laughed about the tourism possibilities for the county's Sasquatch. But County Executive Janet S. Owens' spokesman remained serious, expressing Owens' concern that Arundel Mills mall open Nov. 16. The frightened workers said the "thing" ran past them so fast they weren't sure what it was. After fleeing to a nearby fast-food restaurant, they called police, who dispatched an off-duty officer working security at the site. He had trouble persuading the men to return to where they say they first spotted the animal. Later, when the officer and the workers caught another glimpse of the creature, the workers ran away again. Hours later, the officer spotted a large animal in the dark with his floodlight , but it was unclear whether it was the same beast spotted earlier by the workers. DNR sent a regional wildlife biologist to the construction site, but the search for the animal or its prints came up empty, said Susan O'Brien, a department spokeswoman. "It was most likely the bear spotted on [Route] 295 not two or three miles from that site," O'Brien said. The female bear, which had been with a small cub killed by a car on the road, would have weighed at most about 300 pounds and would be about 5 feet tall if it stood upright, she said. She said the animal might have looked much larger - distorted by the witnesses' fear and horror and by poor lighting. That is, if the bear was the same animal that terrified the construction workers. The officer reported finding a 15- to 20-inch-long print and seeing a large animal near a pond on the construction site about 3 a.m. Although the print would have been too large to be from a bear - even a large one - O'Brien said it was possible that the animal had slid in the dirt, creating an elongated print. Bears have been sighted by residents in the Baltimore area recently, she said. If confronted by a bear, residents should make their presence known by standing straight, talking and then backing away slowly in a nonconfrontational manner, said O'Brien. Originally published on Aug 2, 2000
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Sun: Sun and Moon Data for One Day The following information is provided for (longitude W76.7, latitude N39.2): Sunday 30 July 2000 Universal Time SUN Begin civil twilight 09:36 Sunrise 10:06 Sun transit 17:13 Sunset 00:20 on following day End civil twilight 00:50 on following day MOON Moonset 23:20 on preceding day Moonrise 09:20 Moon transit 16:51 Moonset 00:16 on following day Phase of the Moon on 30 July: waning crescent with 1% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. New Moon on 31 July 2000 at 02:26 Universal Time.
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IBS Report #: 1864

Location: M county, MD. United States

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: M
Longitude: M
Day: M
Month: WINTER
Year: 1977-78
Time: M
Elevation: M

Data Source: TR30
Credibility: 2
Locality: MD
Researcher: WAYNE FENNER
Witness: UNK

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 3 TOED 19 & 12 IN TRACKS, 2 BF HUNTING TOGETHER, BF AT CAVES, BONES STACKED

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* In the winter of 1977-78, Wayne Fenner investigated Maryland tracks that appeared to show hunting cooperation between two Bigfoot creatures. In the one foot deep snow heavily criss-crossed with game trails, two 3-toed creatures, moved 200 feet apart, one at the bottom of a hill leaving 19 inch tracks, the other at the top of the ridge, walking parallel, left 12 inch tracks. Speculation was that if one of the creatures jumped game, it would run towards the other. In another instance, tracks indicated that a creature stood behind a tree, apparently waiting for traffic to pass, then ran across a road. A cave where feces was found was reported to have two creatures standing in front, swaying back and forth. The foundation of an old house was found to have bones of game stacked on make-shift shelves.
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IBS Report #: 592

Location: MONTGOMERY county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +038˚ 59' N
Longitude: 077˚ 01' W
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Month: WINTER
Year: 1996
Time: LATE NIGHT
Elevation: 340

Data Source: TR72
Credibility: 1
Locality: NEAR SILVER SPRING
Researcher: Rip Lyttle
Witness: John Cormer and John GARAFOLO

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 7 FT BF , VOCALIZATION

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MD MONTGOMERY 1996 TR#72 * Rip Lyttle, 11/2/97 email. I just got back from visiting night watchmen John Cormer and John Garafolo of Laurel Sand and Gravel. That’s twenty minutes from Silver Spring, MD, the huge quarry straddles both sides of Interstate 95. Both night watchmen claim to have seen something around seven feet tall late at night last winter. One heard what sounded to him like a woman screaming.
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IBS Report #: 2505

Location: WASHINGTON county, MD. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 27' N
Longitude: 077˚ 45' W
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Year: 1988
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Elevation: 502

Data Source: TR 55 MAR 96--Bigfoot 0n The East Coast, BERRY
Credibility: 3
Locality: FORGE HILL
Researcher: RIP BERRY
Witness: WITNESS

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: MONKEY-LIKE CREATURE SEEN

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TR 55 MAR 96 Rip Berry's book, Bigfoot 0n The East Coast, 1993, lists some 232 Bigfoot reports from Maryland, a lot for such a tiny state (Rick Berry, PO Box 106, Stuarts Draft, VA 24477). recent, in 1988, when a huge monkey-like creature was seen on Kalmia Road near Forge Hill.
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Ecology: Missing

IBS Report #: 1820

Location: YORK county, MD. United States

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 45' N
Longitude: 076˚ 16' W
Day: 2
Month: MARCH
Year: 1978
Time: M
Elevation: M

Data Source: TR29, AND YORK DAILY RECORD
Credibility: 2
Locality: MD PEACHBOTTOM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Researcher: WAYNE FENNER
Witness: DRIVER NORVAL THOMAS

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 8-10 FT BF JUMPS IN FRONT OF TRUCK, ODOR, HOWLS, 3 TOES

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* Wayne Fenner, founder of QuestOr discussion group (UFO'S and Bigfoot), (503) 582-1234, has a report from 1978 that he investigated (has been in media before). At the Maryland Peach Bottom Nuclear Power plant, an 8 to 10 foot Bigfoot jumped in front of a cab-over semi-truck in the winter, landing in front of, and at eye-to- eye-level with the driver. The semi slid on the ice to avoid the creature, and the driver noticed a really foul smell filled the truck as he went past. Notifying the gate guards, the armed party chased the monster from where it jumped from the right of the truck, into a ravine on the left, and crossed a fence. At the top of a hill across the ravine the creature started making nerve-wracking howls, and the team pulled back and gave up the chase. They saw broken branches in the trees where the creature had swept them away while moving in 5 1/2 foot strides on 3 toes in snow. It had been a really bad winter and snow was heavy, causing speculation that's why the creature ventured into the settled areas. As snow froze on the creatures 9 inch long hair, icicles formed, causing a strange collar around the footprints. (The Bigfoot Digest, Opsasnick- #347, MD/PA line, Cecil Co.; Peach Bottom on Mar 2, 1978, truck driver Norval Thomas, at 10:30PM written up York Daily Record, 3-7-78)
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Sun: Sun and Moon Data for One Day The following information is provided for (longitude W76.3, latitude N39.8): Thursday 2 March 1978 Universal Time SUN Begin civil twilight 11:10 Sunrise 11:37 Sun transit 17:17 Sunset 22:58 End civil twilight 23:25 MOON Moonset 15:33 on preceding day Moonrise 06:03 Moon transit 11:14 Moonset 16:23 Moonrise 07:04 on following day Last quarter Moon on 2 March 1978 at 08:35 Universal Time.
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Ecology: SNOW ON GROUND