Incident #1000574
Burnt Ranch, Trinity Cty, California
1974
Account
Driving West on Hwy 299 about 3 or 4 a.m., between Burnt Ranch and Grays Falls, rounded a bend and saw a black-brown crature, broad at the shoulder, standing in the road 60 feet ahead. It turned its body, hadn't much of a neck, and just walked off into the woods, crossed road in maybe 3 steps.
When
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Trinity Cty
- Nearest Town
- Burnt Ranch
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 14
- Latitude
- 4050--
- Longitude
- 123291-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- North
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Peter Guttilla quoting Vern Morrison
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1974
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1974
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- crossed road, entered woods
- Reaction
- avoided
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Peter Guttilla?
- Interview date
- 1974
- 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
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 61 to 70