Incident #1000595
Big Bend, Shasta Cty, California
1975
Account
Wayne Bryant interviewed after finding a single 17 1/2 inch track in October, 1977, said that two years ago he and four others driving near Big Bend at 2 a.m. saw a 7-foot creature crashing through the underbrush alongside the road, and it paralleled them for two miles. They finally speeded up to get away, because it was "more than scary."
When
- Year
- 1975
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Shasta Cty
- Nearest Town
- Big Bend
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 16
- Latitude
- 410---
- Longitude
- 12153--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Near or/at
- road
- Super Human Action
- Crashed through underbrush pacing car, not clocked
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Slope
- easy
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- heavy
Source
- Source
- Burney, Cal., Inter Mountain News, Oct. 20, 1977
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1977
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1978
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- ran
- Speed
- very fast
- Running Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Reaction
- ran after
- Attracted By
- machine activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature ran crashing through brush beside road, keeping up with vehicle for two miles until driver speeded up to get away from it. Speed not specified.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Buck Buchanan
- Interview date
- OCT 1977
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- kept going, fled
- No of witnesses
- 5
- Other report by this witness
- 2