Incident #1001299
Grande Prairie, Peace River Dis, Alberta
Oct 1975
Account
Bob Moody, a trapper of 45 years experience,. was driving South from Woking on Hwy 2 about 11 miles from Sexsmith when he saw three creatures, one large and two small, at the edge of the trees beside his lane of the highway. The big one was 7 to 8 feet tall, covered with brownish hair about an inch long except on the face, which had little hair. He noted big brown eyes. The smaller ones, estimated 3 and 4 feet high, were behind the other and not so distinctly seen. The big one appeared to have what looked like a deer skin draped over its shoulders. She was crouched when first seen, but reared up when she became aware of his truck. Art German looked for tracks four days later and found impressions of dug-in toes in a cutbank with a four-foot stride. On top of the bank there were three piles of feces like horse manure, but not as large, very fibrous. There are no livestock in the area. The dense deciduous forest is on a hill which the road is cut through. Behind it is an expanse of pine timber and a swamp.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 02 1975
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- County
- Peace River Dis
- Nearest Town
- Grande Prairie
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 26
- Population of Town
- 25000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 12
- Latitude
- 5537--
- Longitude
- 11845--
What was seen
- Individuals
- other group of large and small
- Total Individuals
- 3
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- hill
- Slope
- easy
- Substratum
- grass
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- many small
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- poplar, willow
Weather and light
- Lighting
- heavy cloud
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Grande Prairie, Alta. Daily Herald, quoting Bob Mo
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- OCT 03 1975
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- OCT 1975
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description 1
- Eyes
- large
- Eye color
- dark
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- short
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Hair Shorter On
- face
- Movement
- getting up
- Later Movement
- fled
- Other Activity
- Threw up its hands and swayed back in surprise at truck.
- Reaction
- fled from
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- crouched
Creature description 2
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 3-4 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Two creatures not clearly seen, one estimated 3 feet, the other 4 feet.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 48
- Estimated Age
- 4
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 3
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Remarks
- Tracks just toes dug into a cut bank, grass above didn't show tracks.
Witness 1
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Shaun Fleming, Grande Prairie Daily Herald
- Interview date
- OCT 03 1975
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 61 to 70
Witness 2
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- OCT 1975
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1