Incident #1000717
Washington
1964
Account
Man wrote that while prospecting between Mount Adams and Spirit Lake he awoke to see the back of a dirty brown creature, more than 7 feet tall, with heavy legs, and a strip of longer and darker hair a foot wide from the buttocks to the base of the skull. It swung from side to side as it ran off, and kicked or threw a 60-pound pack 30 feet.
When
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Washington
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Super Human Action
- Threw 60-pound pack 30 feet
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
Source
- Source
- George Haas quoting letter from man from Missouri
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Hair Longer on
- back
- Leg Width
- heavy
- Later Movement
- fled
- Object Handled
- manmade object
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Swung side to side as it ran. Kicked or threw a 60 lb. pack 30 feet.
- Different Colour on
- back
- Second Colour
- dark brown
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- prospecting, camping
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- lying down
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- No of witnesses
- 1