Incident #1000892
Lummi, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Aug 1977
Account
Jim Bunton said that he saw by moonlight a sasquatch holding a chicken. It dropped the chicken and fled, jumping a fence. Three chickens were missing, bones found farther up the road.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Whatcom Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lummi
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 100
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- open area
- Nearby Water
- ocean, inlet
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- moonlight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Jon Beckjord quoting Jim Bunton
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- SEP 1977
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- SEP 1977
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- put something down, ran
- Aggressive To
- chickens
- Object Handled
- animal
- Eating
- meat
- Reaction
- fled from
- Attracted By
- livestock
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Was stealing and presumably eating chickens.
- Additional Movement
- jumped, crossed fence
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Jon Beckjord
- Interview date
- 1977
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- No of witnesses
- 1