Incident #1000737
Chehalis, Lewis Cty, Washington
1967
Account
Billy Brown told Roger Patterson that he was hunting near his residence on the Chehalis River just before dusk when he heard rustling in the brush and a white sasquatch stepped up on a railway trestle about 30 yards away, blocking his path home. It was 8 feet tall, 3 feet across the shoulders, had a flat face and long snaggy hair. Movements were quick. He shot it in the head with a 12 guage shotgun and it grabbed its head, screamed "like a pig" and ran into the swmap. He put four more shots in its back, then ran home and came back with older boys. They couldn't track it, but saw blood in the water. Brown said he had seen it several times before in an old apple orchard. It would run across the trestle and into woods and brush. It ate apples. He saw what he thought was two small ones once. Had seen none since the shooting.
When
- Year
- 1967
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- late afternoon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Lewis Cty
- Nearest Town
- Chehalis
- Direction from Town
- West Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 6000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 1.7
- Latitude
- 4637--
- Longitude
- 123020-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- marsh
- Near or/at
- railroad
- Super Human Action
- Shot in head with shotgun, then 4 times in back, ran off
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Effect of Shot
- showed impact, made noise
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- swamp
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- swamp
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Substratum
- water
- General undergrowth
- heavy
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 10
Source
- Source
- Billy Brown intv. by Roger Patterson
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- white
- Shoulders
- wide
- Nose
- no snout
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- made a noise, fled
- Arms Used
- hanging onto something
- Sound
- scream
- Reaction
- fled from
- Attracted By
- farm plants
- Water Activity
- beside water
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature ate apples. When shot it screamed and grabbed its head.
- Evidence Left
- blood
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Roger Patterson
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- shot
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20