Incident #1000358
Orleans, Humboldt, California
Sep 1964
Account
Benjamin Wilder was sleeping in his car at a heliport near the top of the ridge between Boise Creek and Peach Creek when he was awakened by a shaggy- haired animal shaking the car. It was standing by the driver's door with its arms on top of the car. He shouted and it did not react but when he sounded the horn it walked off, and he caught it in the headlights as it went into the brush. It walked upright, but went down on all fours to go up the steep hill--he said a human would have done the same. Next day he found scat with deer hair and teeth and "bear grass" in it, but none of the fruit pits he would have expected in bear dung. seeds he would have expected
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 13 1964
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- midnight
- Duration
- 6 to 15 seconds
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 41172-
- Longitude
- 12128--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- occupied machine
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- South
- Substratum
- broken rock
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree condition
- mostly new
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
- Lighting
- flashlight, headlights
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Benjamin Wilder intv. by Jim McClarin. Blue Lake A
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUN 70
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- medium
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Neck Length
- short
- Neck Width
- wide
- Shoulders
- medium
- Shoulder Shape
- square
- Tail
- none
- Torso Front
- wide
- Torso Shape
- uniform
- Buttocks
- none
- Legs
- short
- Leg Width
- heavy
- Arms
- short
- Spine
- flat
- Movement
- swaying
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Walking Speed
- slow
- Aggressive To
- vehicle
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Arms Used
- for shaking
- Object Handled
- vehicle
- Sound
- growl, grunt
- Human Contact
- attempt entry
- Reaction
- ignored, avoided
- Attracted By
- human shelter
- Describe Unsual
- There were scratches left on the car. He had left a cantalope rind outside the car (and had more inside). Didn't notice if the rind was gone in the morning.
- Evidence Left
- faeces
- Position when first seen
- erect
- Head Size
- small
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUN 26 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- lying down
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 5 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- over 70