Incident #1000196
Wycliffe, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia
1976
Account
Gale Shay, Nelson, described on video seeing a huge sasquatch running across a field 100 yards from her home, when she lived in the East Kootenays in 1976. She said the horses panicked and galloped off but the sasquatch loped past them without apparent effort. Arms swinging. Taller than the horses. In sight close to 2 minutes, then ran off up a butte.
When
- Year
- 1976
- Time of Day
- late morning
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- East Kootenay Dis
- Nearest Town
- Wycliffe
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Near or/at
- livestock
- Super Human Action
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- river
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 9
Source
- Source
- Gale Shay interviewed on video by Nelson film gro
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- MAY 76
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAY 76
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- very large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- went up slope
- Speed
- very fast
- Running Speed
- very fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Reaction
- ignored
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Sasquatch ran faster than galloping horses, and paid no attention to them. Horses panicked.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Tape or Video
- Video recording