Incident #1000570
Viola, Shasta Cty, California
May 1974
Account
Driving east on Hwy 44, between Shingletown and Viola, saw a tall, hunched figure run from the brush on the right, cross the highway and disappear in the brush on the left. It was covered with greyish hair or fur, ran with arms bent, but they seemed long. Never looked at car. Her husband was watching the odometer and failed to see it.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 15 1974
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- late morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Shasta Cty
- Nearest Town
- Viola
- Direction from Town
- West
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 40300-
- Longitude
- 1214---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plateau
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- easy
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Mrs. John Micciche, letter to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1974
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1974
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- stooped
- Hair Colour
- grey
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- running
- Direction
- Northeast
- Later Movement
- turned left, crossed road
- Speed
- fast
- Running Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Arms Action
- bent, swinging
- Arms Used
- in locomotion
- Reaction
- ignored
- Additional Movement
- entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1