Incident #1001300
Sundre, Alberta
Nov 1975
Account
Don Kenney was moose hunting in early November, saw a bull standing broadside in a swamp 400 yards North of him, shot and knocked it down. Gun jammed, moose got up and trotted into trees to the Northeast. Into the swamp on a game trail from the Northwest came a 7.5-foot, red brown, hair-covered biped, walking like a human with long arms. After walking about 35 yards it noticed him, stopped and exchanged stares with him for about a minute, then went after the moose, in sight about 3 to 6 minutes altogether. Gun cleared, Kenney struggled across the swamp in a foot and a half of snow and followed tracks of moose and sasquatch a couple of hundred yards uphill, then no more snow and trail lost. Came to a clearing at the top of the hill, and to his North, about 30 yards away, saw the creature looking at him. It moved off and he fired through a gap in the pine trees when he thought it would be passing. Found no evidence of having hit it. No description of tracks in snow, and no tracks out of snow.
When
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- 3 to 5 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- Nearest Town
- Sundre
- Direction from Town
- West Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 12
- Population of Town
- 1700
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 5154--
- Longitude
- 11457--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Near or/at
- marsh
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Effect of Shot
- none
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- Slope
- easy
- Nearby Water
- swamp
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Substratum
- grass
- Ground condition
- wet
- Snow Condition
- snow
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- jackpine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- direct sunlight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Donald B. Kenney, letter to John Green and phone c
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- SEP 11 1988
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1988
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Ears
- covered by head hair
- Nose
- no snout
- Nose Shape
- humanlike nose
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- walking
- Direction
- Northeast
- Later Movement
- stopped still, turned left
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Reaction
- watched, avoided
- Attracted By
- wild animal prey
- Describe Unsual
- Observer had shot a moose, which got up and walked off. Sasquatch was following it.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Additional Movement
- walked away, entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green. Also Tom Steenburg tapeed intv.
- Interview date
- SEP 01 1988
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied, followed, shot
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Tape or Video
- Audio recording