Incident #1000269
Yale, Clark Cty, Washington
Oct 1971
Account
Informant was at Yale Park, midway on the north side of Yale Reservoir, looking at scenery across the lake when he heard a powerful 10-second bellow from across the lake, starting low-pitched and becoming high and clear. Lake is about a mile wide. Watching he saw a figure move up from the lake shore, cross a logging road and disappear to lower ground behind the road, at the entrance to a canyon.. A couple of minutes later a second figure followed the same route. They were wide for their height and moved in a wobbling, almost bouncing action. Could not distinguish heads. Were a faded, greyish, light brown. Couldn't estimate size, but later saw a pickup truck at the same location which was almost invisible without binoculars, so apparently figures were very large.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 02 1971
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Clark Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yale
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 500
- Latitude
- 4602--
- Longitude
- 12219--
What was seen
- Individuals
- two large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- canyon
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- Northwest
- Nearby Water
- lake
- Distance to Water
- close
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- warm
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- overcast
- Lighting
- cloudy bright
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Elmer F. Wollenberg
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- JUL L73
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JUL 73
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- very large
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- grey brown
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- went up slope, crossed road, went down slope
- Speed
- slow
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Sound
- scream
- Reaction
- did not see
- Additional Movement
- disappeared
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- over half mile
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 1