Incident #1000646
Orange Cty, California
May 1981
Account
Mr. H. was parked on a bluff in eastern Orange County, talking on his CB radio, when he heard a pounding noise. Getting out and shining a flashlight down the bluff he saw a large, hair-covered, manlike creature using what looked like a wooden beam to pound on bricks sealing up an abandoned flood control culvert. It stopped and stared back at him, and he ran for his car and left. It was more than a foot taller than the 7-foot culvert, very powerful looking, hair dark, but upper face looked like light skin.
When
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1981
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- 3 to 5 seconds
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Orange Cty
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- high bank
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- ditch
- Slope
- steep
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- flashlight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Co-op, Feb. 1984. Dennis Ruminer quoting M
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1982
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1985
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 9 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- near eyes
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Face Colour
- light
- Movement
- other
- Later Movement
- turned, watched observer
- Arms Action
- striking
- Arms Used
- for picking up, for hitting
- Object Handled
- manmade object, stick
- Reaction
- watched
- Attracted By
- object
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature was using what appeared to be a wooden beam as a battering ram apparently to try to break open the bricks blocking a disused 7-foot culvert.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Dennis Ruminer
- Interview date
- MAY 21 1982
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Least vertical distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- studied, fled
- No of witnesses
- 1