Incident #1000909
Marietta, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Aug 1979
Account
Several residents of the Lummi Reservation told Bob Walls about a local fisherman who had gone into the brush beside one of the channels in the Nooksack River delta and had been chased back to his boat by a sasquatch.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Whatcom Cty
- Nearest Town
- Marietta
- Direction from Town
- South
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0
- Latitude
- 4846--
- Longitude
- 12234--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- delta
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- ocean, inlet
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- many small
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- heavy
Source
- Source
- Bob Walls letter reporting second hand account fro
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- DEC 17 1979
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAR 1980
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- chased
- Aggressive To
- witness
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- ran after
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Animal chased human away.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Action on sighting
- fled
- No of witnesses
- 1