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IBS Report #: 609

Location: COSHCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

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Latitude: +040˚ 09' N
Longitude: 081˚ 54' W
Day: 20
Month: APR
Year: 1997
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Data Source: TR73
Credibility: 3
Locality: Wills Creek area
Researcher: DON KEATING
Witness: Marc DeWerth & Richard Myers

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Summary: CHEST BEATING, FILMING OF POSSIBLE BF

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OH COSHOCTON 1997 TR#73 Note, Don is Director of the Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Investigation Center, PO Box 205, Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832-0205. He also publishes the groups newsletter, The Monthly Bigfoot Report, $10.00 annually, editor. This is a special write-up for Ray Crowe of the Western Bigfoot Society’s newsletter, The Track Record. This is for publication whenever space allows. The sooner the better. The Tri-State Bigfoot Study Group met Sat. , Dec. 6th, at 624 Heller Dr. in Newcomerstown, OH. Due to bad weather conditions in the northern third of Ohio, attendance was held to only 17 persons. However, the meeting became a memorable one and soon to be one of a kind, for sure. Organizer Don Keating thought it’d be a different idea to have members of the audience give their most memorable experiences while out in the field. ******* Marc DeWerth of Cleveland, OH, also agreed that one of his most interesting encounters in the field was when he was standing with Richard Myers and heard the chest beating. Another of DeWerth’s encounters was the filming of apparently a primate-type of individual in the thick underbrush on April 20, 1997. This was located in the Wills Creek area of southern Coshocton Co., OH. The film is currently being worked on by Dave Bittner of Baltimore, MD.
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IBS Report #: 612

Location: COSHCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

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Longitude: 0
Day: 12
Month: APR
Year: 1997
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Credibility: 3
Locality: BIGFOOT LAKE
Researcher: Mark DeWerth
Witness: LADY

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 18 IN TRACK

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OH COSHOCTON 1997 TR#73 * Mark DeWerth, Jan 27, 1998. This is a picture of an alleged Bigfoot track found on April 12th, 1997, by a woman in rural Coshocton County, Ohio. There was a series of tracks (6 to 7) in a straight line leading up to a gravel road into a pine forest. I arrived at the scene on 4-19 with Don Keating of Newcomerstown, OH, and to our amazement the tracks still showed very well in the 5-6 inch high grass thanks to a beautiful sunny day. The amazing thing about this particular track was how well you could make out the toes and general shape of the foot. At the heel the track depth was over 4 inches. Measurements were as follows; 18 inches long, 7 1/2 inches wide at the ball, 5 1/4 inches wide at the heel, impressed over four inches in depth. The series of tracks were heading up a slight incline. The distance between each track averaged 54 inches. If only they were in soft soil. In my opinion these would be impossible to fake due to them being in short field grass and travelling up an incline. Just as a side note, these tracks were found less than 200 yards away from the famous Don Keating, Aug. 2, 1992, sighting of an alleged white Bigfoot.
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IBS Report #: 946

Location: COSHCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

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Day: 27
Month: MAY
Year: 1999
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Data Source: TR89
Credibility: 1
Locality: COSHOCTON COUNTY
Researcher: Hawk and Karen S.
Witness: Hawk S.

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 3 BF SEEN, TRACKS AT GARDEN, AND WINDOW, VOCALIZATION, THINGS THROWN AT TRAILER, BAIT BOX, VIDEO OF FACE,

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OH COSHOCTON 1999 TR#89 * Hawk and Karen S. report, July 21, 1999. From: snowdeer@webtv.net (Karen S) Coshocton County, Ohio. Well we have had a lot of activity here for the past several months. We have found foot prints beside our garden, below our bedroom window and in the creek behind our home. We have heard sounds that would make the dead rise--screams, howls, hollers. We have had things hit our trailer at night -- sometimes it sounded like it was rocks hitting it and sometimes it sounded like something was actually knocking on it. Our dog used to bark at everything that came in the yard. Now he hardly ever barks at all. As you probably heard Hawk had a sighting of three creatures on May 27th. I know how hard that was for some people to believe, but it was never-the-less true. We started putting out a bait box with different kinds of food in it to see if we could draw the big guy close enough to get a good solid set of foot prints. Saturday July 17th, Hawk was out checking the bait box. He came back inside to get the video camera to take a shot of some claw marks he found under the bait box. He was recording the claw marks when he heard the sound of breaking branches and a loud high pitched sound.He turned around to look towards the sounds. The video camera was still on. He aimed the camera toward the sounds and started recording. He thought he saw something move so he zoomed in and out and back in again. He came in shortly after that and said he thought he got something on video. We put the tape in the VCR and we saw this thing like a face. We did a still frame on our webtv and uploaded it to our home page so it would blow it up a little bit. The image we sent is the first one we uploaded. In the video you can see the eyes blink at least twice and the head move to the side a little bit. I know what we think it is and we hope we are right. Until someone proves to us that it is not a face of a Bigfoot we will continue to believe that it is. We watched that 22 seconds of video over and over again. The wind was not blowing so it was not the movement of the leaves we saw. You can see where the sunlight is touching the cheek on this face. We went out the next day at the same time with the video camera and aimed it at the place where the face was. There was nothing there. We have had several people come to see the tape and they all agreed that it looked liked a face. One person told us it looked like the face of a primitive man. I guess everyone will have to decide for themselves what they think it is. We believe Bigfoot is behind our home. We have come to consider him/her a friend. God knows if he/she wanted to harm us he/she has had numerous chances. We want to prove that Bigfoot exists without harming them. We are not sure how to do this but when the time comes I am sure we will know what to do. I don’t feel we will learn the truth until the time is right and we are meant to learn it.
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IBS Report #: 2998

Location: COSHOCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 11' N
Longitude: 081˚ 53' W
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Elevation: 745

Data Source: TR 75 MAR 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: lake between Coshcocton and Conesville
Researcher: Don Keating
Witness: BOYS FATHER

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: YOUNG BOY DROWNED BY BF

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TR 75 MAR 98 fellow told me of a lake between Coshcocton and Conesville, off road 271, OH, where several years ago a young boy had been camped. When his father checked on the boy, he was found drowned in the lake, apparently by a Bigfoot. It was not made clear if a Bigfoot had supposedly pulled him in, or he panicked and ran into the lake. Don Keating will check into it and let us
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IBS Report #: 3054

Location: COSHOCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 00' N
Longitude: 081˚ 51' W
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Elevation: 771

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: BIGFOOT LAKE, 6 S COSHOCTON
Researcher: MARK FRANCIS
Witness: RESIDENT

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BF FEMALE AT POND AND 8.5 FT MALE

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TR 77 MAY 98 A slide was of a barn with a Sasquatch Country sign in the Wills Creek Basin. Talking to the owner, he commented on being two miles past Bigfoot Lake when he saw a Bigfoot female at a pond. Breasts drooped to the waist and the hips were very wide, though the waist was quite skinny by comparison. Across the pond he saw another very tall male, 8 1/2 feet, and decided to leave. Both were dark colored.
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IBS Report #: 2997

Location: COSHOCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +040˚ 16' N
Longitude: 081˚ 51' W
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Year: 1975
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Elevation: 771

Data Source: TR 75 MAR 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: NR COSHOCTON
Researcher: CRC
Witness: MATT HESTON

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: WHITE BF FOUND, BLACK FACE

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TR 75 MAR 98 Matt Heston in 1975 saw near Coshcocton, a white Bigfoot, that had a black face . This means that maybe many of the white creatures that are being reported are not necessarily albinos; Don had a tape of an owl that sounded like chimp play sounds...he’ll get us a copy.
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IBS Report #: 3053

Location: COSHOCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 10' N
Longitude: 081˚ 51' W
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Month: AUG
Year: 1977
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Elevation: 741

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: Wills Creek Basin
Researcher: Mark Francis
Witness: Mark Francis

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 200 LITTLEFOOT TRACKS 6.5 AND 4.5 IN AFTER USING GAME CALL

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TR 77 MAY 98 based on the April meeting of Don’s study group. The speaker was Mark Francis of Twinsburg, Ohio. Francis brought several plaster tracks and photos of a site in the Wills Creek Basin, August, 1997, where he and his girlfriend had been in the rugged area with dangerous cliffs hunting coyote. He used a wounded rabbit and wounded fawn calls. Coyotes were howling from the nearby ridge. They heard moaning noises behind them coming closer and closer, got spooked thinking it might be a bear, and left. The next day he returned at 2 PM, there being a light rain that night, and he found “little barefoot tracks,” about 200 of them by count. They went all over the area in mud (seepage from the pond), next to the pond, in oil slick (natural oil in the area), and on top of his tire-tread marks from the night before. The tracks were of two creatures gamboling about the area. One set was 6 1/2 inches long, 4” at the ball, and 3” at the heel. The other was 4 1/2 inches long. They were five-toed. The tracks were very wide with no arch, and Mark plaster casted several of them. No large tracks were found, even after searching the surrounding area. There was no reason to believe the tracks were of human children in that remote area.
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IBS Report #: 2661

Location: COSHOCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 12' N
Longitude: 081˚ 51' W
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Month: MAR
Year: 1986
Time: 4:30PM
Elevation: 771

Data Source: TR 61 SEPT 96
Credibility: 3
Locality: 3 SW COSHOCTON
Researcher: CRC
Witness: JIM AND DIANE BANKS

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BLACK OR BROWN BF SEEN

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TR 61 SEPT 96 Three miles southwest of Coshocton, we visited Jim and Diane Banks in their trailer house. In March of 1986 at 4:30 PM, Diane was driving by, near her trailer home, watching the field next to the woods for deer, commonly seen, and she saw a Bigfoot instead. "It was very big...walking upright, leaning foreword, arms at knee length. It was black or very dark brown, and had a high crown, and an ape-like face...1 felt sorry' for it, it didn't wanna' be seen," Diane said.
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Precip: COSHOCTON 2.1 2.1 3.1 3.3 3.8 3.7 4.2 3.3 3.0 2.3 3.0 2.6 36.7
Temp: COSHOCTON 24.4 27.1 37.9 48.7 59.5 68.0 72.0 70.7 64.4 52.7 41.7 30.2 49.6
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IBS Report #: 3037

Location: COSHOCTON county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 12' N
Longitude: 081˚ 43' W
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Year: 1987
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Elevation: 797

Data Source: TR 77 MAY 98
Credibility: 3
Locality: near Plainfield
Researcher: Don KEATING
Witness: DON KEATING

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 9 FT BF SEEN, PHOTOS DIDN'T COME OUT

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TR 77 MAY 98 Don KEATING Then in 1987 another 9 foot creature was seen near Plainfield, OH, 15 miles west of the first sighting. This one was 400 yards away and he took three photos that didn’t come out, perhaps due to the cloudy sunset.
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