Incident #1000566
Chico, Butte Cty, California
Oct 1973
Account
Two girls, no identification or description, reported to Chico city police at 1.30 a.m. that while walking in the area of the Five-Mile Dam they were followed for a short distance by a 10-foot creature covered with very dark hair that was making "thumping noises" and that disappeared into the brush near the Hooker Oak ballpark.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 14 1973
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Butte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Chico
- Population of Town
- 15000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2
- Latitude
- 394---
- Longitude
- 1215---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Distance to Water
- close
Source
- Source
- Chico, Cal., Enterprise-Record
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- OCT 15 1973
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- NOV 1973
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 10 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- walked away, entered woods
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- approached
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 2