Incident #1000188
Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
1975
Account
Julius Szego told Guy Phillips that he and his cousin Ed, 15, saw a 7' creature crouched at the edge of the water at Scott's (or Scutz) Falls, pulling out roots. Brownish black, mossy hair on body, no hair on face, flat forehead, humanlike face. Watched it a half minute then threw a rock, it looked at them, grunted and walked off. They were about 40 feet from it. Happened about 8 p.m. Added note in file says site was on Rte 18 between Duncan and Lake Cowichan, but how this was determined is not noted.
When
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- evening (light)
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Vancouver Isl
- Nearest Town
- Lake Cowichan
- Direction from Town
- East
- Population of Town
- 100
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Cover
- heavy
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Letter from Guy Phillips to Tom Steenburg, quoting
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- JUN 88
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUN 88
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- No hair on
- on face
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Face Appeared
- humanlike
- Forehead
- low
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observer, walked away, entered woods
- Arms Used
- for picking up
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Sound
- grunt
- Other Activity
- pulling up roots beside water
- Reaction
- avoided
- Attracted By
- natural food plants
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Hair looked mossy. Was pulling up roots beside stream
- Position when first seen
- crouched
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Guy Phillips
- Interview date
- 1980
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Most vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 2