The Creature

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For many years there have been reports of large anthropoid creatures in the Himalayas. To the native humans of the area the creatures are known as Yeti and to our wild eyed news media as the abominable snowman. The largeness of these creatures are an exaggeration of the journalist for the Tibetans who claim to have seen the Yeti say they are about four feet tall and have long light brown hair and that they live in the rhododendron forests just below the snow line. Rhododendron is a common plant in the wild mountainous areas of Oregon and Washington where there have been numerous sightings of Bigfoot or Sasquatch. These stories are so well documented that to pursue them here is repetition. If Kong is of this stock then his group may have migrated here through the north woods of Canada to the areas of the Adirondacks and south over the Appalachians. Recent sightings of large creatures have corresponded to those areas thick with rhododendron and laurel. Laurel is so abundant in Pennsylvania that it is the state flower.

How is it that these creatures and Kong have survived without accurate identification by humans. I am sure that there are many creatures on this earth not cataloged or found in the libraries of the world. The Coelacanth fish was a recent living discovery after its fossil remains were long identified. The native fisherman of the southern coast of Africa long knew of its existence but no scientist had seen one up until its presentation to the world.

Why are there no fossils of Yeti, Bigfoot, or Kong like creatures. Since these beings live in the forest it is harder to create fossils, especially animal fossils. To create fossils takes quick burial in a protective medium. When I visited the Great Plains I expected to see the area strewn with the remains of buffalo slaughtered by the army and Buffalo Bill when the government was trying to drive the Indian back to reservation living. I found no such remains since even in that short period of time the animal remains had disappeared.

My theory is that the relatives of Kong have some way of disposing of their corpses which precludes fossil making or burial finds. On the other hand, forests create coal and there have been fossils of manlike creatures found in coal deposits of Italy. This fossil find was given the name Oreopithecus which means "mountain ape." The coal and fossils were of Miocene Age. The mining operations have broken up many such fossils and loose skull and jaw parts are presently being pieced together to try to get a look at the whole creature.

If we are to look for fossil remains of these creatures in North America then I would suggest the bogs and swamps of old mountain areas. I have searched out the place where I buried the parts of Kong to see if it is still intact but have not been able to document the exact spot. I did find a hole about three feet deep with an old car wheel beside it but I don't think that was the spot. If it was the spot then he was dug up and the body removed. My superstitions concerning death are so strong that I am apprehensive when I go back to that area south of Wymps Gap and I do not really wish to go back there. I must and when I do and if I find the exact spot I will report it to the world.

The days pass slowly and I have reflected upon my association with Kong and my obligation to the scientific world. I do not wish publicity and yet I sit upon this powder keg of knowledge. I can affirm that the creature did exist. The summer following my association with Kong there were sightings of similar beings around a small town called Hutchinson in Pennsylvania not more than thirty miles from here. A creature was sighted crossing a trailer court. Wild eyed witnesses were paraded before television cameras and pictures of them appeared in print. A sighting also occurred at Crabtree and another near Mt. Pleasant both in Pennsylvania. Another man claimed a creature with red blood shot eyes peered through his window nine feet off the ground. Television has had a hey day, sensational mags have covered the events. Creatures smelling of sulfur, flying saucer sightings, nuts and crazy people abound. What is the truth. It is difficult to sort out, I can only relate the story as it happened to me.

There are so many bigfoot sightings in Western Pennsylvania that I am inclined to believe that this area is a rendezvous point for the creatures. My experiences are calm and scientific compared to those of others. I hate to mention names but since local papers including the widely circulated Pittsburgh Press have mentioned them I guess I will also. This is cowardly of me not to reveal my name but to do so with the names of others.

The most accurate description given to date was by eleven year old Debbie Colello who was walking with her father near their home in Luxor, Pennsylvania which is in Westmoreland County. It was August 1973 and they were walking around supper time when they heard something crashing through the woods. Debbie's father described the cause of the noise as a huge hairy creature which broke small trees. The arm of the creature was two or three times the size of a man's. He told Debbie to start running. As Colello watched his daughter she turned to look at her father and saw the creature behind him. The Press reported that Debbie's description was that of a Grade B monster movie. Little did they realize the accuracy of her description. Colello didn't think his daughter made anything up. Neither did he think that the arm he saw was that of a bear.

Another accurate sighting was made by Chester Yothers on Labor Day 1973. He lived in a mobile home in Whitney also in Westmoreland County. He thought somebody was messing Around his garage so he pulled back the drapes and saw "this big thing standing there" and later checking showed the thing to still be standing there. Chester then went to wake up his wife and she reported seeing it too. They then called the police. When they got back to the window the thing had disappeared. Yothers description was a seven or eight foot being covered with brown hair and with arms that reached to its knees. He said he didn't notice the creature breathing since he was breathing very hard himself. "Rather" said Yothers, "the creature probably heard him."

When our local UFO and mysterious creature man Stan Gordon arrived on the scene and took samples of a red stain from the side of the trailer they thought it was blood. This wouldn't surprise me since many people of this area shoot into the darkness at all hours of the night. However the sample turned out to he chewed up apple and the analysis couldn't tell anything from the saliva. This fits in with Kong's habit of loving apples. I wanted to call Gordon and tell him about it but I do want to remain anonymous. Even though Gordon keeps his informers confidential it would make me very uneasy.

Yothers didn't stay at home for a week after the sighting and he was still afraid to go outside at night a year later. The Pittsburgh Press states on June 1, 1975 "he has taken his share of ribbing." Yothers remark was "that was no bear and it was no human being either. They can ridicule all they want. I saw it." And he did, and so did Debbie Colello. and so did I.

The news reports of creature sightings in Westmoreland County of Pennsylvania stress the sulfur like smell about the creatures. Speculation suggests that the creatures sleep in abandoned coal mines and the iron and sulfur smell rubs off on them. A class of junior high school students recently searched for evidences of large creatures near an abandoned coal mine near Bakerstown, Pennsylvania. They turned up some spotty evidence which resembles footprints.

If these sightings and smell reports are accurate and I have no reason to doubt them then my experience has shown that the strong smell of the creature existed when the creature had exercised. I do not believe the coal mine theory to be accurate since I hold with the idea that these creatures are natives of the forest, particularly rhododendron forests.

It is near midnight as I finish this report and I am at the Diggins. As I typed that last statement I paused and went out to the porch. I believe I saw shadows darting into the bushes. I hope I am right.

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