Incident #1000946
Lebanon, Linn Cty, Oregon
Dec 1885
Account
Mr. Fitzgerald and others, hunting near Bald Peter in the Cascades, approached within a few yards of a "wild man" covered with hair, which was eating a deer. When it saw him it fled. Isaac Banty said to have seen the same "man" in the same locality two years earlier.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1885
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Linn Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lebanon
- Direction from Town
- East Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 16
- Population of Town
- 10400
- Latitude
- 445---
- Longitude
- 1223---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- hearsay
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Carson City, Nev., Morning Appeal
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- DEC 31 1885
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1975
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- fled
- Eating
- meat
- Reaction
- fled from
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature was eating a deer.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- approached
- No of witnesses
- several