Teens encounter creature near Girard witnessed in Erie County, Pennsylvania

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It was the spring of 1994 I believe, probably April. I was 15 years old. The incident happened at my friends house in Girard, PA. There was me and four of my friends. It was the weekend and we were ready to camp out about a half a mile away from my friends house. He lived at the end of a dead end road that ran right by Interstate 90. Girard is about 15 - 20 minutes from the Ohio Border. We got all of our stuff back to camp and set up around 5 or 6pm. Our camp site was at the bottom of a ravine with a small creek running through the middle of it. It was right next to the highway but down a little bit. The area was dense forest of deciduous mixed with pine. Around 12pm or so we split up into teams and started having a b-b gun war across the ravine from each other. This was going on for probably about a half hour or so. I was on the side of the ravine furthest from the highway with two of my friends, my other two friends were on the other side shooting at us. Then I started to hear som...