The Original Grinning Man

The Grinning Man

Location. Near Elizabeth New Jersey
Date: October 11 1966 Time: evening
Two 16-year old boys, James Yanchitis and Marvin Muñoz were walking home along Fourth Street and New Jersey Street when they reached a corner parallel to the New Jersey Turnpike. There the Turnpike is elevated and there is an extremely steep incline going down from the busy street above which leads to Fourth Street. A very large high wire fence runs along the edge of the other street be…low where the boys were walking, making it incredibly difficult to near impossible for anyone to want to climb up the incline to the turnpike above. There are bright street lights in that area, which gave the boys a good glimpse of what they called, “the strangest guy we have ever seen. Yanchitis noticed the strange entity first. “He was standing behind that fence”, he stated later to investigators. “I don’t know how he got there. He was the biggest man I ever saw.” “Jimmy nudged me”. Marvin Muñoz reported to police, and said, ‘Who’s that guy standing behind you?” “I looked around and there he was—then he grinned a big old grin.” There had been recent reported incidents of violence in the nearby neighborhood, such as a middle age resident being chased by a “tall green man” down that same street on the same night, so the boys fled quickly. The man was over six feet tall, they agreed, and was dressed in a sparkling green coverall costume that shimmered and seemed to reflect the street lights. There was a wide black belt around his waist. The boys also said, “He had a very dark complexion, and little round eyes…real beady…set far apart.” The most frightening and bizarre aspect of the encounter is the fact that they could not remember seeing any hair, ears, or nose on this figure. Humcat 1966-46 Source: James Moseley & John A Keel