Incident #1001208
Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho
Oct 1975
Account
John Wavrick was elk hunting, sounding a call, when a brownish black creature 7 to 8 feet tall, stepped out of the trees. Very heavily built, covered with short hair. He got his super 8 camera and got a few seconds of film of the creature, obscured by the thick snowfall. The creature then turned and disappeared down an embankment. Movie shows no movement and is not good enough to establish that the figure vaguely seen is the creature described.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 24 1975
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Idaho
- County
- Clearwater Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orofino
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 18
- Population of Town
- 2500
- Latitude
- 464---
- Longitude
- 1161---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Photo
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Slope
- easy
- Snow Condition
- snow
- Cover
- some trees
Weather and light
- Relative Temperature
- cold
- Humidity
- heavy snow
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- John Wavrick intv. by John Green, Russ Gebhart, Gr
- Source Type
- interview
- Source Date
- FEB 1976
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- FEB 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Russ Gebhart, John Green, Grover Krantz
- Interview date
- 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- photographed
- No of witnesses
- 1