Incident #1000910
Aberdeen, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Sep 1979
Account
A Montesano man who wished to remain anonymous reported to sheriff's officers that he had seen a sasquatch-type creature 8 feet tall, weighing 700 to 800 pounds, with long hairy arms, running back and forth in the middle of the road from Aberdeen to Wishkah.
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Grays Harbor Cty
- Nearest Town
- Aberdeen
- Direction from Town
- North
- Population of Town
- 18000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0.5
- Latitude
- 470---
- Longitude
- 1234---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Aberdeen, Wash., World
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- SEP 1979
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- SEP 1979
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- turned around, crossed road
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature kept running back and forth in the middle of the road, no indication how many times, or how it left.
- Additional Movement
- turned around, crossed road
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- No of witnesses
- 1