Incident #1000265
Copalis Beach, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
May 1970
Account
Three girls, Rosemary Tucker, Diane Higby and Becky Figg, who was driving, were on County Road 101 between Copalis Crossing and Aloha when Rosemary saw a 7-foot, creature covered with silver-tipped hair in the headlights. After they went by Diane, who was in the back seat, looked back and saw it come onto the road and run after their car. Story in the Oregonian said that Deputy Russell Figg, Becky's father, investigated the scene unofficially on found 16-inch footprints in forest litter with a seven-foot stride.
When
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- midnight
- Duration
- 3 to 5 seconds
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Grays Harbor Cty
- Nearest Town
- Copalis Beach
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0.5
- Latitude
- 47074-
- Longitude
- 124051-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Near or/at
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000264, 1000266, 1000249, 1000250, 1000251, 1000263
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- ditch
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Ground condition
- wet
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- medium
- Tree condition
- mostly new
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- sparse
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- high
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Mrs. Rosemary Hansen intv. by John Green. Also Por
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JAN 73
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUN 1970
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair curl
- straight
- Hair Colour
- light
- Shoulders
- wide
- Shoulder Shape
- sloped
- Torso Front
- wide
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- chased
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- ran after
- Different Colour on
- hair ends
- Second Colour
- silver-tipped
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 84
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- poor
- Material Tracks Made in
- forest litter
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- moderate
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JAN 27 1973
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 3
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20