Incident #1001002
Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon
Oct 1968
Account
Millie Kiggins cousin, fishing near Estacada, saw a big hairy creature come out of the woods waving its arms. He fled and the man ran a quarter mile to his pickup. The creature followed him but made no attempt to catch him, stopping when he tripped and fell. It smelled to high heaven. When he reached his truck it ran off. He insisted it was a bear, but it ran always on its hind legs.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Clackamus Cty
- Nearest Town
- Estacada
- Population of Town
- 1500
- Latitude
- 451---
- Longitude
- 1221---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- hearsay
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Cover
- heavy
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- John Fuhrmann quoting Millie Kiggins telling story
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- NOV 1968
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- OCT 1968
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- chased, maintained distance
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- human
- Arms Action
- gesturing
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- ran after, fled from
- Additional Movement
- fled
- Position when first seen
- erect