Incident #1000676
near Br. Col border, Washington
1880
Account
Rita Swift said that her great-grandfather George Fletcher Koon told her in 1947 (well before sasquatch descriptions were common) that when he was employed on a railroad the train hit and killed a "seven-foot-tall gorilla" that "stunk awful" and that they dragged it into a car, but it disappeared at the next station. He thought that Indians disposed of it.
When
- Year
- 1880
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- near Br. Col border
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- railroad
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- railroad
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 10
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Co-op, April/July 1987. Constance Cameron
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1987
- Source reliability
- 2
- Incident reliablility
- 2
- Jwg file date
- 1987
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Odour
- strong
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Rita Swift
- Interview date
- 1947
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- on train
- Closest horizontal distance
- contact
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- several
- Age
- 16 to 20