Incident #1000740
Yakima, Yakima Cty, Washington
Jul 1968
Account
Jerry Merritt, Patterson's neighbour, said he saw a sasquatch at night about 15 yards from his house. He heard screaming, opened the door, turned on the light and saw a creature facing away from him, ridding itself of Merritt's dog, which was hanging from its crotch. The dog was badly beaten up. He called off the dog and the creature left. Roger Patterson was notified, and cast a footprint in the gravel. On Tampico Road near Ahtanum Creek.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Yakima Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yakima
- Direction from Town
- West Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 15
- Population of Town
- 50000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 15
- Latitude
- 4631--
- Longitude
- 12050--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000734, 1000735
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- South
- Substratum
- gravel
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- light from habitation
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Jerry Merritt intv. by Roger Patterson
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- fighting
- Later Movement
- fled
- Aggressive To
- dog
- Arms Used
- for hitting
- Object Handled
- animal
- Reaction
- fled from
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Was fighting with dog, which was clinging to its crotch.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Track Condition
- poor
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- gravel
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Roger Patterson
- Interview date
- JULY 1968
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- shouted
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- 2