Incident #1000323
Lewiston, Trinity Cty, California
about 1953
Account
Mechanic told Bob Titmus, who was driving logging truck there, that he had seen a huge erect creature covered with brown hair watching him as he greased a tractor, and it had made big tracks. Titmus refused to be conned into going to look at the tracks. Not enough information for a track report.
When
- Year
- about 1953
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Trinity Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lewiston
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 4044--
- Longitude
- 12243--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- under
- Terrain Object
- tree
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Undergrowth
- sparse
Source
- Source
- Mechanic for Stegle Logging Co., talking to Bob Ti
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Reaction
- watched
- Attracted By
- human activity
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Bob Titmus
- Interview date
- 1953
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- roadbuilding, outside on foot
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Least vertical distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- 1