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Land creatures. United States

ID #1611070812
Added Tue, 19/01/2021
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
Research

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
09.1999
Location: 
округ Овертон
TN
United States

A teenage boy was driving home around midnight when a creature unlike any he had ever seen before suddenly jumped in front of his car from an embankment on the side of the road. 

Whatever it was, the witness had to hit the brakes to avoid hitting it. He got a good look at the thing as it bounced in his headlights. 

He estimated that he was between 3.5 and 4 feet (1-1. 2 m) tall, with fangs and a face resembling a cross between a cat and a bat, red eyes with large black pupils and long pointed ears. It also had small "paws" with three-inch claws (7.62 cm) and muscular hind legs like a kangaroo. 

The creature was covered in long, thick dark brown or black hair.

Original news

Date: September 1999
Location:  Overton County, Tennessee
Time: midnight
Summary: A teenage boy was driving home around midnight, when a creature unlike any he’d ever seen before suddenly leaped in front of his car from an embankment at the side of the road. Whatever it was the witness had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting it. He got a good look at the thing as it hopped through the beams of his headlights. He estimated it stood some 3 ½ to 4 ft tall, with fangs and a face resembling a cross between a cat and a bat, red eyes with large black pupils and long, pointed ears. It also had small “paws” equipped with three inch long claws and muscular hind legs something like those of a kangaroo. The creature appeared to be covered in long, bushy dark brown or black hair.
Source:  Phillip L Rife, America’s Nightmare Monsters

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