Incident #1000650
Simi Valley, Ventura Cty, California
Jan 1984
Account
Ruminer states that a man and his son riding on an all-terrain cycle in the Santa Susana Mountains on a dirt road 500 yards from a housing tract sighted an 8-foot, heavy, hairy, manlike creature standing 20 feet from the road in waist-high brush, watching them. The man turned the ATV and rode back past it, then it started to follow them, continuing as they accelerated, until the cycle hit a ditch and crashed. After the accident it was not seen again.
When
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1984
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Ventura Cty
- Nearest Town
- Simi Valley
- Population of Town
- 27000
- Latitude
- 341---
- Longitude
- 1184---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Near or/at
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000651
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- heavy
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Co-op Nov. 1984, Dennis Ruminer quoting un
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1984
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1984
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observer, approached, chased
- Reaction
- watched, ran after
- Additional Movement
- disappeared
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- possibly Dennis Ruminer
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- motorcycle/ATV
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- came back, departed slowly, fled
- No of witnesses
- 2