Teenager has face-to-face encounter with tall, hairy, man-like creature witnessed in Greene County, Pennsylvania

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This occurred when I was about 15years old, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. When I tell the story, even to the friends that were with me the night it happened, they laugh. "I know what I saw and I would gladly take any sort of lie detector test made to prove it." It happened around 9:30 p.m. in the summer of 1969. My friends and I had found a way that we could sneek into the community swimming pool after hours. We would peel back a small section of fence surrounding the patio and we would crawl through it. We would swim, sometimes naked, for hours at a time. Occasionally the caretaker would come around to check the pool and when we saw him coming we would run through the fence and into a small patch of woods that ran along the Monongahela River. On this particular evening, I noticed the headlights of a car coming toward the pool and sounded the alarm. As I was the first one to enter the wooded area, I ran as fast as I could to gat away. As I was running, ...