Incident #1000861
Lummi, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Oct 1975
Account
At 7.30 p.m. October 23, Sgt. Ken Cooper attended at Emma Smith's house on Scott Road, where he found a window broken and plastic that had covered the back door ripped off. Found Emma at her son's house next door. She said something pounded on her wall, then the window was broken. She went out the front door and her nephew, driving by, took her next door. Ken Cooper and Capt. Fred Guardipee found several large tracks in the grass and a hand print on the back door. At 2.20 a.m. approached by Sam Cooper, who said something was going on back of Emma's home on Scott Road. Went there and put spotlight in the back yard, there was a very large "ape-looking thing" standing there. Sgt. Ken got out of the car with a 12 guage shotgun, told Sam to hold the light on the creature, and walked up to 35 feet from it. It crouched down and made no attempt to run. Was black, about 7 to 8 feet high, appeared to have no neck. Covered with short hair, no hair on face, could see no ears. Small eyes, very large chest, long arms, appeared to have large teeth, two upper, two lower, nose flat and could see nostrils. Couldn't decide whether to shoot, then loud noises heard in the brush on both sides. Sgt. Ken backed out of there.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 24 1975
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- 6 to 10 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Whatcom Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lummi
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 1
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
- 1000856, 1000868
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- ocean, inlet
- Substratum
- grass
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- spotlight
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Sgt. Ken Cooper
- Source Type
- police report
- Source Date
- OCT 24 1975
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1975
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Eyes
- small
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- on face
- Hair Length
- short
- Hair Colour
- black
- Teeth
- long canines
- Ears
- covered by head hair
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Nose
- no snout
- Nose Shape
- large flat nose
- Nostrils
- Yes
- Torso Front
- very wide
- Torso Side
- very wide
- Toes
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got down
- Arms Used
- for breaking
- Object Handled
- building
- Human Contact
- attempt entry
- Reaction
- watched
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Animal stayed squatted down with spotlight on it until witnesses got nervous and left.
- Evidence Left
- hand print
- Additional Movement
- stopped still
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- DEC 1975
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting, in car
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- approached, studied, departed slowly
- No of witnesses
- 7