Incident #1001266
Garland, Box Elder Cty, Utah
Mar 1981
Account
This report is a mishmash to get some information from Garland into the computer, when there are several reports referred to but not enough specifics about any of them. Height and colour estimates are said to be consistent at 8 to 9 feet and brown, but not attached to any particular report. Sightings were reported in the Garland cemetery and canal areas, and one on West Factory Road by the railroad tracks, by Garland Police Chief Mark Spence. A boy was thrown by his horse in an encounter, and the horse will not return to the spot. Two boys saw one lying on its belly drinking at the canal. Russ Rose and Ryan King and their dates saw one in the cemetery area which ran away, and when they returned with Chief Spence footprints were found. The footprints are 18 inches long and the right foot is missing two toes.
When
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1981
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder Cty
- Nearest Town
- Garland
- Population of Town
- 1500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 45
- Latitude
- 4146--
- Longitude
- 11210--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes and child
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Nearby Water
- river
Source
- Source
- Trementon, Utah, Leader and Garland Times, quoting
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- APR 02 1981
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUNE 1981
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Odour
- strong
- Water Activity
- beside water
- Use of Water
- drink
- Describe Unsual
- Horse threw rider, and won't go back to where sasquatch was encountered. Sasquatch apparently afraid of dogs. (This information and the witness information are not from the same incident)
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Position when first seen
- lying down
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Foot Deformity Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Deformity
- Right foot missing two toes.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Tom Kornegay, Tremonton Leader and Garland Times
- Interview date
- MAR 1981
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- No of witnesses
- 1