I have been to Benezette on some recent trips, thats PA if your nt sure. We have been out watching elk every knight for the past two weeks. the locals keep telling us about a local legend called the Benezette Banchee. they say its a large human like creature that runs the hills in the area along where we were watching the elk. i know its probably an urban legend but how can anybody be sure? we didnt see anything unusuall but locals were very serious. does anybody know of this legend or story???

hi !

no, i've never heard of that one, but it sounds interesting. i hope you'll keep us updated if you come across anything strange.

i have a friend who comes from PA. next time i see her i'll ask her what monster stories she has from that area.

gael

Pennsylvania Bigfoot Info

Not exactly what you're asking about, but I came across this page and thought you might find it interesting.

well im not from pennsylvnia but i have family in ohio, and they have told me stories of the banchee you speak of. im thinking its an urban legend or folk tale.

hi happyfoot, I live about an hour and a half southwest of benezette, and hunt in the area pretty often, never heard of the banshee story but could see how peoples imaginations could run away with them, we had a camp when i was younger in dubois on boone mountain, about 20 minutes from benezette, one night my mother woke everyone up saying a woman was being killed in the woods behind the camp, we all ran out my dad with a flashlight, sure enough sounded like a woman screaming, except it was about 10 feet up in the air, yeah i know sounds kinda squatchy, except with a little further examination we saw it was 2 porcupines going at it up in a pine tree about 20 yards behind the camp, sure did sound creepy though, my dad said also there was a rumor that 2 mountain lions has escaped from a menagerie back in the late fifties or early sixties, their screams and calls could certainly contibute to a banshee legend, of course i hope im wrong and its our friend old squatchy roaming around up there , anyway thats my 2 cents, MM

well its been 3 years since I posted about the banchee, and havent seen it since... but now it has been photographed! but now they are trying to rename it jacobs creature. well i dont think it should be renamed because the name was already "coined" a few years ago. here is one of the blogs with a picture. http://halfsquatch.blogspot.com/2007/10/bi...s-creature.html

Criminey....

Hi, Happyfoot. Thank you for the post. Those pictures have really been causing a stir!
Check it out: http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?sho...c=20689&hl=

What makes you think the subject in the Jacob's Photos and the Benezette Banchee are one in the same?

I lived in that remote/rural area of PA for quite a few years. One thing that is a common form of entertainment is to go spot-lighting animals out in the fields, and now that the elk have been re-established, it is interesting that people are seeing this "banshee" in association with these elk (one of the original 1960's re-established herds, I think) in the evening. Pennsylvania has a lot of forests, though not the same kind of forests that were originally there..these modern ones are even less productive and lacking in bio-diversity) and they are realizing that the forests are not very productive for wildlife (essential yes, but productive? Not so much)...and of course the elk and deer depend on open land/pasture/meadow and roadside brush to browse in the evening when they feel less exposed to what they've learned are troublesome humans. I don't think the jacobs creature is BF but then I don't have much trouble accepting the notion of one or even two distinct species/morphs of cryptic predator affiiated with forest wildlife.

hey happyfoot wow very interesting new update here welcome to bigfootforums please keep us posted ok. bill

I was reading this post and it intrests me. I live in Rochester Mills, PA which is about 1hr and 1/2min from Benezette. My mother is from Cinnamahonging and my father's family owns a camp there too that we go to about every 6weeks. I remember my mother's dad said that while going to work in Emporium with some guys he worked with he they saw the creature in front of them on the road. He described it as being covered in grey hair, very tall like 6ft, long arms too, he thought he said it looked like an over sized orangatan, and deffinatly man-like. Also my grandfather and great uncle from my fathers side of the fam have a camp on Jerry Run in Cinnamahoning and they where up late one night play poker like they usually do. Around 3am my great Uncle went out side to "relieve" himself. my Grandpa asked him a question or something and he answered back. right after that they hear something scream in across the road, which just goes from almost like a holler to mountain. Uncle Rudy at first thought it was my grandpap playing a joke so he told him to stop it and everytime they would talk it would scream and move further up the mountain. They've heard mountain lions scream, bears growl, wolves and coyotes growl, and other animals, but they never heard something like that before.

That's interesting. I had heard that there was an elk herd not too far from there in Elk County coincidentally, and that they travel up into Potter and McKean south of Rt6. Any idea if the elk travel in the area near Emporium? It's been many years since I've been there and from what I've heard it's still very rural to the point of being remote.

My Dad and I were just up that way and we drove through that area returning from our PA bear hunt. We used to deer hunt McKean Cnty near Westline Inn, and when we drove through the forest roads it's a shame how industrialized that area is becoming. Driving along on forest roads 455 and 188 we must have seen 200 drilling rigs on those two roads alone. Between the rigs and timbering being done in that area ,it was "cut up" to the point we had a hard time finding the spot we used to set up camp. It was kinda depressing when we started talking about the old times and how remote the area was and used to be loaded with wildlife. We drove along those forest roads and didn't see any sign of wildlife.... I don't know what it's like in Emporium or the surrounding areas of Elk County, but the remote areas of McKean County we used to enjoy aren't so remote anymore

At one time "wasteland" and "wilderness" were synonymous...we now reserve the former for the industrially devastated areas...and the latter for what i'm sure we'd like to see more of. Got a bit if both there evidently.
Of course the history of that entire part of pennsyslvania is a reads like a littany of environmental assualts. Logging, re-logging, oil drilling...more logging...and now tertiary recovery of some of the most incredible goo nature can exude...Its a testamony to nature's tenacity that it could have rercouperated to the point where just a few years ago it looked great by comparison. I used to try to envision what that part of PA must have looked like a thousand years or more ago and even just a few hundred years ago it was a vastly different kind of wilderness. The loss of the chestnut trees and passenger pigeons alone in that part of the country has never been studied or calculated...all gone before anyone knew to take the time to create a comprehensive inventory.