Incident #1000937
Yacolt, Clark Cty, Washington
Jun 1989
Account
Brenda Goldhammer heard scream outside that set dogs barking, horse bucking, chickens going crazy, she went to investigate, her German shepherd ran into woods, came back yipping and hid under the porch. Near horse corral about 100 feet from the house she saw a big, hairy gorilla type thing. She ran to the house. Her stepson Nickolas Goldammer, 16, ran down and encountered the creature standing by two little trees 25 feet from him. He stopped, it came toward him. Her ran in the house and got a bayonet, came back and watched it from the top of the garage until it walked off. Deputies and Titmus found no evidence of footprints, Will Jevning says he did, and made casts.
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 01 1989
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1989
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- late afternoon
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Clark Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yacolt
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 0.5
- Population of Town
- 300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 6
- Latitude
- 4551--
- Longitude
- 12223--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- easy
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- mixed size
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus intv. with Nick Goldammer Jr. and Brend
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- JUNE 1979
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- AUG 1989
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- thin
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- approached, turned around, walked away
- Sound
- scream
- Reaction
- approached, avoided
- Describe Unsual
- Dogs, horse and chickens all showed agitation.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness 1
- Interviewer
- Bob Titmus
- Interview date
- JUN 30 1989
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- fled
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 21 to 30
Witness 2
- Sex
- FC
- Interviewer
- Bob Titmus
- Interview date
- JUN 30 1989
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- fled, came back, studied
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 10 to 15