Incident #1000963
Hope, Hope-Princeton Hwy, British Columbia
Jul 1965
Account
Mel Mortimer was driving East on the Hope-Princeton Highway, just East of the big slide, on the stretch of highway abandoned after the bypass was completed, when he rounded a curve and saw something 8 feet tall and 5 feet wide, erect but slightly hunched, lumber across the road about 200 feet ahead. It was deep brown, lighter below the head (no neck), arms hanging. It crossed a sloped ditch in one stride and crossed about 100 feet of grass before disappearing in the trees.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1965
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Hope-Princeton Hwy
- Nearest Town
- Hope
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 12
- Population of Town
- 3000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 491633
- Longitude
- 1211313
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- open
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- gravel road
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Mel Mortimore intv. by John Green
- Source Type
- interview
- Source Date
- MAY 1994
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAY 1994
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- slightly stooped
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- running
- Direction
- South
- Later Movement
- ran, entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- hanging
- Reaction
- ignored
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- MAY 1994
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1