Incident #1000242
Little Fort, North Thompson Dis, British Columbia
Apr 1979
Account
Tim Meissner, 16, and John Landry, 19, fishing from a boat on Dunn Lake, April 28, heard a loud, high-pitched, drawn out scream, and saw a creature standing on the shore 300 yards away with its arms raised. It ran along the edge of the lake upright and with arms pumping scrambled up an embankment and disappeared in the trees. They beached their boat and followed, finding 100 yards into the bush a dead deer covered with branches, twigs and leaves except for the hind legs. Skin was unbroken, but neck bones crushed..
When
- Observation Date
- APR 28 1979
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- North Thompson Dis
- Nearest Town
- Little Fort
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 15
- Latitude
- 5126--
- Longitude
- 120073-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- trees
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000243
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Effect of Shot
- semi collapse, fled
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Nearby Water
- lake
- Distance to Water
- close
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Kamloops Sentinel, May 4 1979 quoting Tim Meissner
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- MAY 1979
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAY 1979
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- ran, went up slope, entered woods
- Arms Action
- gesturing, swinging
- Arms Used
- in locomotion
- Sound
- scream
- Reaction
- fled from
- Attracted By
- wild animal prey
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature stood with arms raised as it screamed. Presume had killed and covered up deer.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- fishing, boat
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- approached
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 16 to 20