Incident #1000454
Mammoth Lakes, Mona Cty, California
Jul 1954
Account
Phillis Lord working as hostess at guest lodge at Mammoth, in a car with seven other young people driving Mammoth Road towards Highway 395, creature ran on road from South and stood staring in the headlights three or four car lengths away, then loped across the road. About 6 foot, big around, dark brown or black, long arms. Definitely not a bear. Smelled sulphur-type odour.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 19 1954
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1954
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Mona Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mammoth Lakes
- Direction from Town
- West
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 80
- Latitude
- 37384-
- Longitude
- 11900--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- East
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Phyllis Lord quoted by Constance Cameron in Bigfoo
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1980
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1980
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- stooped
- No hair on
- on palms
- Hair Thin on
- face, chest
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Nose
- no snout
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- running
- Direction
- North
- Later Movement
- stopped still, watched observer
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Odour
- mild
- Reaction
- fled from
- Additional Movement
- fled
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Interviewer
- Constance Cameron
- Interview date
- JUN 14 1980
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 8
- Age
- 16 to 20