Incident #1000404
Riverside, San Bernardino Cty, California
Nov 1958
Account
Charles Wetzel was driving at night on North Main Street in Riverside, where it crosses the dry bed of the Santa Ana River when something jumped in front of his car reached back to the windshield and began clawing at him. It had a round "scarecrowish" head, a very long arm, no ears, a round face, eyes with flourescent shine and a protruberant mouth. It looked scaley. As he drove on he heard something hit the oil pan. The creature fell back from the car and gurgled. This incident is included because of the unusual behavior of the creature, but given a very low credibility rating, because the description does not establish that it was necessarily a sasquatch.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 08 1958
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1958
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- San Bernardino Cty
- Nearest Town
- Riverside
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 1
- Population of Town
- 150000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 7
- Latitude
- 34015-
- Longitude
- 117235-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- level
- Unnatural Conditions
- cleared
- General
- none
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Humidity
- light snow
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- United Press story Nov. 9, 1958, quoting Charles W
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1958
- Source reliability
- 2
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1958
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected, no colour stated
- Head Profile
- rounded top
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- observer
- Arms Action
- reaching
- Arms Used
- for hitting
- Object Handled
- person
- Human Contact
- attack
- Reaction
- ran at
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Available description does not establish that this was a sasquatch.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- contact
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1