Incident #1000679
Oakville, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
1912
Account
One night in the spring of 1933 Callie Lund heard a very loud noise on the hill behind her home, on a hillside above the Chehalis River valley. A similar noise answered from another hill. She woke her mother, who said "It's that terrible ape again." Her mother, Mrs. Balch, told her that when she was alone in the house one night in the fall of 1912 she heard stomping on the front porch and saw an animal over 6 feet tall standing on its back legs and bending over to look in the window. It later jumped off the porch and started around the house. She got a good look from the kitchen window and said it looked like an ape. It was then that it made the noise heard again in 1933. In 1912 the hill had not been logged and the forest came down close to the house.
When
- Year
- 1912
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Grays Harbor Cty
- Nearest Town
- Oakville
- Population of Town
- 500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 100
- Latitude
- 4649--
- Longitude
- 12313--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- occupied building
- Near or/at
- garden
- Related incident id
- 1000680
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- garden
- Slope
- easy
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- moonlight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Callie Lund writing to John Green about experience
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- SEP 1969
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- turned, got down
- Sound
- shout
- Human Contact
- look in window
- Reaction
- watched
- Attracted By
- human shelter
- Additional Movement
- made a noise, crossed view field
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- Callie Lund
- Interview date
- 1933
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- lying down
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still, studied
- No of witnesses
- 1