Incident #1001238
Flagstaff, Coconino Cty, Arizona
1924
Account
Mabel Fulcher and her mother were walking to the vegetable garden a quarter mile from the house on their ranch at the foot of the San Francisco Mountains when they saw a form bend down in the garden. It had an armload of corn and was pulling up turnips. Her mother thought it was Mabel's husband, and called and waved. The "thing" stood up, 7 feet tall, around 400 lbs., covered with light coloured hair. It ran off, carrying the corn and turnips, went through a wheat field and jumped a rail fence, disappearing in a forest of young pines. On later occasions farm animals would act frightened, and chickens and turkeys sometimes disappeared but there was never another good sighting. There were reports of other people seeing an animal running in the forest on two legs.
When
- Year
- 1924
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Arizona
- County
- Coconino Cty
- Nearest Town
- Flagstaff
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 5
- Population of Town
- 35000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 70
- Latitude
- 3515--
- Longitude
- 11143--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- garden
- Near or/at
- grainfield
- Super Human Action
- Jumped fence with arms loaded with vegetables
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- garden
- Slope
- easy
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree condition
- mostly new
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- pine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Mabel Fulcher letter to Dennis Gates
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- SEP 1977
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- SEP 1977
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- light
- Movement
- picking up
- Later Movement
- got up, ran, jumped
- Arms Used
- for picking up, for carrying
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Eating
- roots, other
- Reaction
- fled from
- Attracted By
- farm plants
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature took an armful of corn and was seen pulling up carrots, which it also took.
- Additional Movement
- crossed fence, entered woods
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- ranching, outside on foot
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- stayed still, studied
- No of witnesses
- 2