Incident #1000597
Yosemite Park, California
1978
Account
Robert Richardson quoted as saying he was camping alone at the head of Iron Meadow, above Fresno Dome and about 2,000 feet below Iron Lakes (none of which are on 1:250,000 map). an 8-foot hairy, thin creature, with straight back, broad shoulders, bull neck, deepset eyes and a black, bearded face approached to within a few feet of his fire. It had deepset eyes and a wide nose with flaring nostrils. Made no sound. Stared at him. He turned to get his gun and when he turned back it was gone.
When
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Yosemite Park
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- camp
- Near or/at
- fire
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- meadow
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Rich Grumley and Peter Guttilla quoting Robert W.L
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1987
- Source reliability
- 3
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1987
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- spacing
- deep set
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- very thin
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Face Colour
- dark
- Beard Y/N
- Yes
- Neck Length
- short
- Shoulders
- wide
- Nose
- no snout
- Nose Shape
- large flat nose
- Nostrils
- Yes
- Later Movement
- watched observer
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Reaction
- approached
- Attracted By
- human activity, fire
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 1