Incident #1000589
Mount Shasta, Siskiyou Cty, California
Sep 1976
Account
Virgil Larsen was about to start falling a tree for a helicopter logging show near Cascade Gulch on the Southwest slope of Mount Shasta, when he heard someone coming down the slope through the bushes, looked up and saw above a bush head and shoulders of something that was not a man, hair swept back from eyebrows over its head. Smell like a rotten bear hide. About 50 feet away. He ran. Later measurement at site indicated it was at least 7 feet high.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 03 1976
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Siskiyou Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mount Shasta
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 3000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 4121--
- Longitude
- 12216--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- ground too hard
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- Southwest
- Substratum
- broken rock, forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- some large
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- heavy
- Species
- fir
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Redding, Cal., Record-Searchlight, Sep 4 1976. Wee
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1976
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- watched observer, approached
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- approached, watched
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Hair appeared to be swept back over its head, starting at the eyebrows.
- Additional Movement
- stopped still
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Clyde Bentley
- Interview date
- SEP 3 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- shouted, fled
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 41 to 50