Incident #1000514
Dorrington, Calaveras Cty, California
Oct 1967
Account
Mike Scott said that while driving East to Tamarack on Highway 4 he saw a huge shaggy animal, 7 to 8 feet tall, run across the road on its hind legs and bound up a steep road embankment in two jumps, leaving deep impressions. He and a deer hunter he met at Tamarack Lodge returned with a flashlight and a rifle, and went up the hill looking for more tracks, then the brush 15 yards ahead crackled, and the light showed a big shaggy smoke-grey animal running up the hill 50 feet from them. Scott shot three times and twice was sure the sights were on the middle of its back. It appeared to stop and thrash around for a moment, growling and grunting, but the man with the light ran and Scott followed. (Credibility index reduced because Scott reported another sighting two weeks later at another location, but there were reported to be other witnesses and tracks each time.)
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 30 1967
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1967
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Calaveras Cty
- Nearest Town
- Dorrington
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 46
- Latitude
- 382---
- Longitude
- 1200--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- high bank
- Related incident id
- 1000516
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Effect of Shot
- showed impact
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine, hillside
- Slope
- steep
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Stocton, Cal. Record, Nov 15 1967 quoting Mike Sco
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1967
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- grey
- Face Colour
- dark
- Hands Colour
- dark
- Hands Appearance
- humanlike
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- went up slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Sound
- grunt, growl
- Reaction
- fled from
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- No information on footprints beyond impressions in road cutbank. Animal did not fall when shot twice in back. Information on skin colour and hand shape comes from later sighting of "same animal", incident 1000516.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Additional Movement
- fled, swayed, made a noise
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- came back, shot
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 21 to 30
- Other report by this witness
- 2