North Carolina summer of 1976. 1 bigfoot creatures involved

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Encounter date: JUL 30 1976
Year: 1976
Season: summer
Time of day: night
Duration: considerable
Story Originator: n/a
Reported by: Gastonia, NC, Gazette, Aug. 1, 1976, and Durham, NC, Morning Herald, Aug. 6, 1976, quoting Roger Hoffman, 6 Oakland, St., Mount Holly, and Mrs. Brenda Rudisill, Mount Holly, NC.
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Lighting: n/a
State: North Carolina
Nearest Town: Mount Holly
County: Gaston County
Coordinates: Lat 3518 Lon 8101
Distance to Town: n/a
Number of Creatures: 1
Creature Types: one large, sex unknown
Photographed: NO
Tracks: n/a
Tracks Cast: NO
Tracks Photographed: NO
Creature Fired At: Bullet Hit Creature
Effect of Firearm: n/a
Superhuman Action: n/a
Trees Undergrowth: Species n/a, Variety: n/a, Tree Cover: n/a, Tree Condition: n/a, Tree Type: n/a, Tree Abborations: n/a, Undergrowth: n/a, Undergrowth Type: n/a
Slope: n/a, Slope Was Facing: n/a
Nearby water: creekýriver
Distance to water: n/a
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Snow condition: n/a
Weather condition: n/a, Heat: n/a, Wetness: n/a, Snow: n/a, Temp: n/a, Wind: n/a, Clarity: n/a, Humidity: n/a
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Children on Oakland Street in Catawba Heights had claimed that they were chased through a wooded area by a huge black animal. Mrs. Brenda Rudisiall said she saw it, as did her sons, Brian, 7, and Scott, 9. Then Roger Hoffman, sitting on his front steps, looked down a path from his house to a creek, saw a 7-foot creature standing there, got a rifle and fired seven shots at it. He and Claude Wilson tracked it two miles through the woods to the Catawba River. Hoffman said it seemed to walk on its hind legs but dropped to all fours when it jumped across a small waterfall along a creek. They heard a whining sound. There is no specific description of observed action by the creature, and the only tracks referred to were four toed and "larger than those of a dog and deeper in the soil."