Incident #1000202
Bella Coola, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
Dec 1976
Account
George and Doris Anderson driving to wharf at 11 p.m., Doris saw large manlike beast with body covered with long dark hair and a light-coloured chest beside the road. It crossed the road and went up the sidehill. George did not see it--according to Clayton Mack. Mack also told Barbara Pederson, Bella Coola correspondant for the Williams Lake Tribune, that Philip Binder, the baker, told him that his children returned from outside about 9 p.m. saying they saw a big animal, and little boy said "it stinks." They live on the road to the wharf. Around the same time someone reported a sasquatch near the pond beside the garbage dump and across the road from the B.C. Hydro office.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 21 1976
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Central Coast Dis
- Nearest Town
- Bella Coola
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 1
- Population of Town
- 400
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0
- Latitude
- 52223-
- Longitude
- 126473-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- shore
- Related incident id
- 1000106
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- hearsay
Setting
- Terrain
- ocean, shore, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- North
- Nearby Water
- ocean, inlet
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- solid rock
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Williams Lake Tribune, Jan. 27, 1977, Barbara Pede
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- JAN 77
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- FEB 77
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Later Movement
- crossed road, went up slope
- Different Colour on
- chest
- Second Colour
- light
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- Clayton Mack
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1