Incident #1001162
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
Oct 1976
Account
Gail Kapptie went outside at her farm near Vaughn to see what the dog was barking at, and saw an 8-foot, tan-coloured apelike creature standing upright by the chicken coop. It had very long arms. When it saw her it ran away at high speed. Her son had previously found the gate to their sheep pen pushed in, and then found 18", 4-toed tracks in the vicinity. About a foot of grain was missing from a 55-gallon drum it was kept in nearby.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 12 1976
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Cascade Cty
- Nearest Town
- Great Falls
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 12
- Population of Town
- 57000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 33
- Latitude
- 473---
- Longitude
- 1113---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- livestock
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found previously
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Greg Mastel quoting Gail Kapptie
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- NOV 18 1976
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1976
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled
- Running Speed
- fast
- Reaction
- fled from
- Attracted By
- livestock
- Describe Unsual
- Ferocious dog barked at creature and would not come when called.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- fast
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Number of Toes
- 4
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- Greg Mastel?
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home, outside on foot
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- several