Incident #1000757
Tampico, Yakima Cty, Washington
Oct 1969
Account
(Sighting report and tracks are not the same incident. Nothing known about track locations, dates etc., so only one incident report.) Ross Hendrich was deer hunting at Little Cricket and had stopped for lunch when he saw two sasquatch walking up a hill about 150 yards away, estimated height 7 and 9 feet. They did not notice him. As they walked they were picking up rocks and getting something from underneath them. (Location given for Little Cricket is "15-20 miles back of Roger's") Hendrich says he has seen tracks on several occasions, and once they indicated that a sasquatch had carried off an elk he had shot.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- noon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Yakima Cty
- Nearest Town
- Tampico
- Population of Town
- 50
What was seen
- Individuals
- two large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- hillside
- Super Human Action
- Carried off elk carcass
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Roger Patterson quoting Ross Hendrich
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description 1
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- went up slope, picked something up
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Used
- for picking up
- Object Handled
- rock
- Eating
- meat
- Reaction
- did not see
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Not on this occasion, informant claims to have seen tracks indicating that a sawquatch carried off an elk he had shot. This is why "eating meat" is included in this entry, although whatever was taken from under rocks may well have been meat also.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Creature description 2
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 9 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- went up slope, picked something up
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Used
- for picking up
- Object Handled
- rock
- Eating
- meat
- Reaction
- did not see
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Not on this occasion, informant claims to have seen tracks indicating that a sawquatch carried off an elk he had shot. This is why "eating meat" is included in this entry, although whatever was taken from under rocks may well have been meat also.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Roger Patterson
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 51 to 60