Incident #1001148
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
Mar 1976
Account
Bob Spurgeon, 15, riding home to Country Lanes Trailer Park on Dempsey Road, saw a hairy creature standing in the road, which moved rapidly through a garden hedge. Another boy riding on the back of the bike saw nothing. Spurgeon passed a polygraph test. Officer recording first report referred to "a bigfoot type creature."
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 25 1976
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Cascade Cty
- Nearest Town
- Great Falls
- Population of Town
- 57000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 33
- Latitude
- 472---
- Longitude
- 1111---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one, no description
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- road
- General undergrowth
- cultivated
Source
- Source
- Capt. Kieth Wolverton quoting Bob Spurgeon.
- Source Type
- police report
- Source Date
- MAR 26 1976
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- APR 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Capt. Kieth Wolverton
- Interview date
- 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- bicycling
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 10 to 15