Incident #1000831
North Bonneville, Skamania Cty, Washington
Jul 1973
Account
Louis Alway, with daughter Cindy, 7, saw a "Bigfoot" cross the highway West of Beacon Rock in front of his car, running upright, movement looked like slow motion, yet covered ground fast. Creature was 6 to 7 feet tall, brownish black. He watched it cover about 50 feet. Cindy was lying down, got only a brief look when called.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 10 1973
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Skamania Cty
- Nearest Town
- North Bonneville
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 400
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2
- Latitude
- 45381-
- Longitude
- 12159--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female and child
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- South
- Nearby Water
- river
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Louis Alway intv. by U. of Ore. students on KLCC.
- Source Type
- radio
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1973
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Movement
- walking
- Speed
- fast
- Walking Stride
- long
- Walking Speed
- slow
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- MC
- Interviewer
- U. of Oregon students on KLCC and Wolper TV show
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Tape or Video
- Audio and video