Incident #1000488
Angels, Calaveras Cty, California
Jul 1963
Account
David Marsh, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Clark, with brother Raymond, 14, and friend Glenn Reed, 13, went hiking a mile Northeast of Camp Connell (on Hwy 4) where they were camping, on an old, overgrown road. Hearing a crashing coming through the underbrush below the road the two older boys hid in the bushes. David saw a thing 8 or 9 feet tall, half man, half ape, convered with reddish brown hair scramble over the bank, lumber across the road and start up the other bank, using clawed hands to grasp the brush. It turned and looked directly at him, then flailed on into the forest. Glenn Reed saw its back as it moved into the brush. David said its head was twice the size of a man's, and the eyes were horrible looking. He had often been taken hunting and was familiar with bears. the
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 20 1963
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Calaveras Cty
- Nearest Town
- Angels
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 22
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 381909
- Longitude
- 1201623
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- crossing
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- unidentified clipping dated July 25, 1963, quoting
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1963
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Human like Y/N
- No
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Face Appeared
- humanlike
- Expression
- horrifying
- Nose
- no snout
- Hands Appearance
- humanlike
- Movement
- climbing hill
- Later Movement
- crossed road, went up slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Used
- in climbing, for spreading foliage
- Reaction
- watched
- Additional Movement
- entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
- Head Size
- large
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Child
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 10 to 15