YEAR: 1978

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: July

STATE: New Jersey

COUNTY: Sussex County

LOCATION DETAILS: Maxim Drive is the closest main road
Camp Trail is the closest road.( dead end street, about 2 1/2 blocks long )

NEAREST TOWN: Hopatcong

NEAREST ROAD: Maxim Drive

OBSERVED: My friend and I were about 11 years old. We have
found some old playboy books and were sitting on
a big rock in the woods looking at them, when we
heard a small dead tree fall over. We look up and
saw what we believe to be Bigfoot. He was about
8 or 9 feet tall and was walking horizontal to
us. It was walking from right to left and was walking
toward a small stream. It didn't seem to care about us,
but we didn't stick around to find out. We ran out of the woods very quickly. We had a small dog with us that ran towards the creature, but later came back home with no problems. We got home and got our bb guns and a tape recorder and went back up to were we had the sighting.(I guess we thought that we were going to be famous) We
found no evidence. the next day in the paper there was
a front page article about footprints being found.

OTHER WITNESSES: Two witnesses and both doing the same thing

OTHER STORIES: Have heard animal screaming noises in 1985 on a campout. about 4 miles away but don't know if one has to do with the other. (we just dimissed as a wounded animal) It did seem to circle the camp for a while. (late at night 2 to 4 am) High school Senior campout

TIME AND CONDITIONS: Just your very normal wood scene

ENVIRONMENT: regular woods with a stream running throug it