Incident #1000612
Pacific Grove, Monterey Cty, California
Aug 1982
Account
Two boys and a girl told police that while driving home they saw a 7-foot "gorilla-type" creature cross Buena Vista Street in three leaping steps. Street is 20 feet wide. It moved bent over, with an apelike shamble. They described it as "bald with long white (body) hair reaching to the waist." Although the location is a residential area there is a corridor of unhabited woodland connecting the shore to the interior mountains, interrupted only by a few roads.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 25 1982
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1982
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Monterey Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pacific Grove
- Population of Town
- 15000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 1
- Latitude
- 36353-
- Longitude
- 12157--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Nearby Water
- ocean
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- San Jose, Cal., Mercury, Aug 26 1982
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1982
- Source reliability
- 2
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1982
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- stooped
- No hair on
- on face
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- white
- Hair Shorter On
- head
- Hair Longer on
- body
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- crossed road
- Running Stride
- long
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Gait described as "shamble." Creature described as "bald with long white hair reaching to its waist."
- Position when first seen
- bent over