Yeti · Lake County, Ohio · 1981
OH-1981ID case-5275c0a550First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Jul 1981to the month
- Where
- Lake County, Ohioto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large, hunched, brown-furred creature with gold/yellow eyes from the waist up behind a drop-off in a park.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Lake County, Ohio, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 1981
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-5275c0a550
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- A woman sitting on a bench in a park sees a large hairy creature behind a four foot wall staring at her
BFRO · 2002-08-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.