History & local legend
A woman riding near Keystone State Park recalled an encounter on a back road leading to Superior in the early 1970s. She was riding her pony, King, bareback to meet a friend named Holly when he stopped abruptly at the crest of a hill. Ahead, a reddish-brown shape was moving toward them. At first she thought it was Holly’s horse returning without its rider.
As it approached, she saw a broad, upright figure with long hair and unusually long arms swinging at its sides. King reared, turned and ran downhill. She reached a nearby house, where a woman called her uncle. He accompanied her back and found broken branches where something appeared to have entered the woods.
The rider submitted her recollection to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization in January 2001. She could not supply the exact year or road name, but remembered asking Holly afterward whether her horse had thrown her. Holly said it had not.
