Incident #1001004
Cave Junction, Josephine Cty, Oregon
Dec 1968
Account
Deputy Sheriff Hal Medkeff quoted a 12-year-old girl as saying that a 6-ft. 4-in. creature covered with long brown hair but with a bare face and palms and protruding fangs climbed onto the road in front of her bicycle on the Bridgeview-Takilma Road about half a mile from Four Corners. As she passed an abandoned, water-filled mine shaft it climbed from a ditch right in front of her, crossed the road and stumbled down the embankment, falling and groaning. Her two dogs remained silent. Next thing she remembered was walking her bike into her yard some distance from the scene. Medkeff searched the scene and found nothing. The road parallels the East Fork of the Illinois River.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- winter
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Josephine Cty
- Nearest Town
- Cave Junction
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 6
- Population of Town
- 1000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 14
- Latitude
- 4202--
- Longitude
- 12336--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- ditch
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- West
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Grants Pass Courier, Deputy Hal Medkeff quoting 12
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- DEC 1968
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JAN 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- on face, on palms
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Teeth
- long canines
- Movement
- other
- Later Movement
- crossed road, went down slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature was first seen climbing onto road out of ditch. Observer's two dogs remained silent.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- Deputy Sheriff Hal Medkeff
- Interview date
- DEC 1968
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- bicycling
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 10 to 15