The story was told by a resident of Calhoun County, West Virginia (USA). It happened in 1979 when she was a child.
“I grew up in the countryside on land that our family has owned for generations. Everything around us was surrounded by many hectares of dense forest. They raised me and my sister strictly, ordering to respect elders and never contradict them.
My dad was a laborer and there was practically nothing he couldn't renovate or build, and my mom was a housewife who never traveled outside the county. Nevertheless, we knew from childhood that the outside world is full of dangers and we need to be very careful.
And from an early age we constantly heard from our parents about a creature called "Snowy". Our parents said that this is a terrible spirit that lives most of the time inside a distant hill.
However, when the first snow begins to fall, he comes out of the hill and begins to wander around, including among human villages. He leaves only in late spring, when it gets too hot for him.
The Mingo Indians, who lived on these lands in the 1700s, when white settlers came here, were still afraid of this Snowy. My father told the story that once Snezhny broke into the village of Mingo and killed many people there, and then collected their bodies in a heap and carried them to his own covered hill. And this village of Mingo was not far from our house.
According to the Indians, Snowy was a tall and stocky creature with long white hair that covered his entire body. But the most frightening detail was the lack of a face, at least as the surviving eyewitnesses described it.
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My parents believed in its existence and strictly forbade us to go outside after dark. And in the winter at night, everyone had to be as quiet as possible so as not to attract his attention.
In January 1979, my sister and I were sitting in the kitchen in the evening doing our homework. Suddenly, the father became agitated and threw on his jacket and went into the yard. I asked my mother what happened, and she said that my father forgot to bring firewood for the night. And before my mother could answer me, my father flew home from the yard with a bullet, slammed the front door and, grabbing a stool, propped the door with it.
Then he ran to the basement, pulled out his old 12-gauge shotgun and several boxes of ammunition. We asked him in bewilderment what he saw and he, standing at the door, answered shortly “Snowy. He is there.
Out of curiosity and forgetting about fear, I ran to the attic to try to make out this creature through the attic window. My sister ran after me. For about 10 minutes we sat by the window and tried to examine Snezhny, but everything around the house seemed calm and no one was visible.
But suddenly my sister said, “Look at the garden,” and when I looked towards our snow-covered beds, I saw HIM. It was enormous in height, more than two meters, and wandered back and forth, sometimes squatting and starting to dig the frozen ground. It was probably trying to find the remains of vegetables.
This went on for several minutes, and then he stopped digging in the ground and went straight to our house. And instead of a face he really seemed to have nothing! It was impossible to see eyes, nose or mouth there.
It did not reach the house, but after a few seconds it turned and headed for the forest. It didn’t come to us again, and I didn’t see it in other places either.
My mother still lives in this old house and says that strange screams are sometimes heard from the forest at night. But she does not think that it is Snowy, she is sure that it is the spirits of the Mingo Indians he killed."