History & local legend
In an October 2006 television report, WPVI reporter Don Polec described nearly striking an unfamiliar animal while driving on Eagle Road in Upper Makefield. It crossed on four legs and was roughly the size of a large German shepherd, with gray coloring, long legs and a relatively small head.
Other calls to local police described a strange animal too, although the reported size and coloring were not always the same. Writer Jonathan Maberry had photographed an unusual-looking animal in a New Hope parking lot, and Polec thought the photographs resembled what he had seen.
The nickname “Yardley Yeti” gave the sightings a memorable local identity.
