Incident #1000037
Hope, Greem Drop Lake, British Columbia
1915
Account
Charles Flood, with Green Hicks and Donald McRae, was on a prospecting trip in the mountains south of Hope when they saw a creature in a berry patch. It was pulling branches with one hand and stripping berries with the other. As the debated what it was it apparently noticed them, stopped eating berries and disappeared in the brush.
When
- Year
- 1915
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Greem Drop Lake
- Nearest Town
- Hope
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 17
- Population of Town
- 3000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 49084-
- Longitude
- 12126--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- berry patch
- Shot Hit
- No
- Photo
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Nearby Water
- small lake
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- sparse
- Tree condition
- dead
- Unnatural Conditions
- burned
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- berry bushes
- General undergrowth
- heavy
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Charles Flood sworn statement. Also Jack Webster i
- Source Type
- deposition
- Source Date
- 1957
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1957
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Arms Used
- for eating
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Odour
- no opportunity
- Eating
- berries
- Reaction
- avoided
- Attracted By
- natural food plants
- Anmals Present Y/N
- No
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Jack Webster
- Interview date
- 1957
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- prospecting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 3
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Tape or Video
- Audio recording