Incident #1001213
McCall, Valley Cty, Idaho
Dec 1976
Account
Mrs. Virgil Donica was awakened about 5.30 a.m. by he neighbours' horses causing a commotion. Then about 8 a.m. as she was having coffee she saw a black animal come up the bank and onto a road about 500 yards away. It seemed at first to be on all fours, but at the edge of Farm to Market Road it stood upright, paused a couple of seconds and looked behind it, then started uphill on the road walking upright. She had fence posts to estimate height by, 8 to 9 feet, and said she never saw a person who was so big or could move so fast, and if a person it would have to be wearing a long fur coat with a hood. She called her son who got a quick glimpse before it went out of sight. No tracks as ground frozen and no snow..
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Idaho
- County
- Valley Cty
- Nearest Town
- McCall
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 1500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 44524-
- Longitude
- 116055-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- pasture
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- easy
- Cover
- some trees
- Unnatural Conditions
- cleared
- General
- none
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- direct sunlight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Russ Gebhart letter from Mrs. Virgil Donica. Also
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- MAR 01 1977
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAR 1977
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- climbing hill
- Later Movement
- got up, stopped still, turned
- Walking Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- did not see
- Describe Unsual
- Something had frightened the neighbours' horses a few hours earlier. Two had jumped the fence.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- fast
- Additional Movement
- went up slope, entered woods
- Position when first seen
- on all fours
Witness
- Sex
- FC
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 2