Incident #1000842
Yale, Cowlitz Cty, Washington
Jul 1974
Account
Jim Stepp told Tony Healy that he saw a grey sasquatch in his yard at Speelyai (not on map) on Lake Merwin (Lewis River). Track Record, Ray Crowe gives the location as 10 miles East of Ariel, which would be almost at Yale. Stepp told Crowe the creature was looking at a boat on a trailer, so this is surely the July 'boatyard' sighting referred to in newspaper stories about tracks seen in October, 1974, by Grover Krantz and Bob Morgan.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Cowlitz Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yale
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 1
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2
- Latitude
- 4559--
- Longitude
- 12223--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- garden
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- ground too hard
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Nearby Water
- creek, lake
Weather and light
- Relative Temperature
- warm
- Lighting
- yard light
Source
- Source
- Tony Healy intv. with Jim Stepp. Also Track Record
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- FEB 1981
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1981
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- grey
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled
- Sound
- scream
- Attracted By
- object
- Describe Unsual
- When Jim Stepp came out of his house he saw the creature standing apparently looking at a boat on a trailer. As it ran off it screamed repeatedly, low, then loud, then low. Pat Stepp, a musician, said the sound was an octave above high C.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Tony Healy, Ray Crowe
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 41 to 50