Incident #1000940
Dixie, Walla Walla Cty, Washington
May 1991
Account
Laura Jarrell looked out the front window of her home in the Dry Creek area a few miles outside Dixie and saw what she thought was a bear crouched in the back yard near a storage shed. Her dogs barked and it started to jump around as they ran toward it, then it ran past the storage shed under the bright light, with arms over its head, like a big monkey "the way it ran with a side-to-side motion of its body and arms up in the air." Dogs came back a few minutes later and since then will not leave the porch at night.
When
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1991
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Walla Walla Cty
- Nearest Town
- Dixie
- Direction from Town
- South Southeast
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 4606--
- Longitude
- 11807--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- empty building
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Nearby Water
- creek
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- yard light
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- NABIN Journal, 1991, from Vance Orchard quoting La
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1991
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- NOV 1992
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- jumped, fled
- Arms Used
- in locomotion
- Reaction
- did not see
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Dogs barked and ran after creature, but soon returned and subsequently would not leave the porch at night. Creature ran with its arms held over its head.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Position when first seen
- crouched
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1