Incident #1000971
St. Helens, Columbia Cty, Oregon
late 1920's
Account
Unnamed informant told Oregon Journal columnist in 1963 that from 1926 to 1928 at the logging town of Yankton (just West of St. Helens, of which it is now a suburb) several people reported seeing a hairy creature 7 feet tall on lonely roads. Once it ran beside a truck, peering into the cab with apparent curiosity. Women and children stayed home after dark. Men went out in pairs. It was known as the "Yankton Giant".
When
- Year
- late 1920's
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Columbia Cty
- Nearest Town
- St. Helens
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 7000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2
- Latitude
- 4551--
- Longitude
- 12221--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Super Human Action
- Ran beside truck, peering in cab, not clocked
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Nearby Water
- creek
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Oregon Journal, Portland, "Town Topics", phone cal
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- AUG 13 1963
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 2
- Jwg file date
- 1963
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Reaction
- approached
- Attracted By
- machine activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature loped beside truck, looking in window
- Anmals Present Y/N
- No
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Interviewer
- Martin Clark, "Town Topics" columnist for Oregon Journal
- Interview date
- AUG 1963
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- under 5 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- several