Incident #1001296
Medicine Hat, Seven Persons Creek, Alberta
Dec 1974
Account
Leonard Edvardson states that a man in Seven Persons reported seeing an upright creature 6 to 7 feet high by full moonlight about 3 a.m. early in December, and that tracks were later found in the ice of Seven Persons Creek nearby, measuring about 15 inches by 7 inches with a 6-foot stride. They had apparently been made in soft ice after a Chinook wind, as those photographed had sunk in an inch deep. This brought to mind that in the fall of 1972 two boys had claimed to see an upright creature with red eyes at Police Point where Seven Persons Creek joins the South Saskatchewan River, but no one believed them. Later in December a man told of seeing similar tracks coming across the ice at the Murray Dam a couple of miles upstream from Seven Persons.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- County
- Seven Persons Creek
- Nearest Town
- Medicine Hat
- Direction from Town
- Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 16
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 4952--
- Longitude
- 11053--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1001295
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- valley bottom
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- frozen
Weather and light
- Lighting
- moonlight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Letter from L. Edvardson to John Green quoting unn
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- JUL 05 1974
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- SEP 1974
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 72
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- hard shallow snow
- Remarks
- Track photo clear enough to show some toes, but not clear enough to count them, or to be sure which is the longest.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- May have been interviewed by Leonard Edvardson, Box 896, Medicine Hat, Alta., maybe not.
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- several