Incident #1000825
Tenino, Thurston Cty, Washington
Mar 1971
Account
Charles Smith and Margie Baker were parked in DesChutes Park in the Bald Hills when a 7-foot creature covered with shaggy hair appeared beside the vehicle, patted the top of the car, walked around to the other side and did the same thing. Smith shone a light on it and it ran off. (Newspaper says it left on all fours, Mrs. Elmer Dodge, Tenino, writes that she interviewed the couple, and it did not get down on all fours.) Police could find no tracks in the pine needles.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 02 1971
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- midnight
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Thurston Cty
- Nearest Town
- Tenino
- Population of Town
- 1200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 5
- Latitude
- 4649--
- Longitude
- 12249--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied machine
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- pine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- flashlight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Daily Olympian, Olympia, Wash., Mar 3, 1971, quoti
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1971
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1971
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair curl
- shaggy
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- approached, turned
- Arms Used
- for feeling
- Object Handled
- vehicle
- Reaction
- approached, fled from
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature ran off when light hit it, whether it ran on all fours is subject of dispute.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Closest horizontal distance
- under 5 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 16 to 20