Incident #1001322
Rocky Mountain House, Baptiste River, Alberta
Oct 1989
Account
Ron Schulz, sons Ron Jr. and Robin, and Dirk Lundy were hunting Elk along the Brazeau Road, and were having coffee by their truck about 400 yards South of the Baptiste River bridge when they saw a creature come out of the heavy brush about 400 yards North of the bridge, then walk idecisively around on the side of the road and disappear again in the woods without crossing the road. Dirk Lundy watched it through a rifle scope sight, the others had binoculars. The creature was about 7 feet tall, black, with short hair on the body, longer on the head. After it was gone they went to the site but found no tracks.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 21 1989
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1989
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- late morning
- Duration
- 6 to 15 seconds
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- County
- Baptiste River
- Nearest Town
- Rocky Mountain House
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 24
- Population of Town
- 2400
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 523---
- Longitude
- 1153---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- bridge or wharf
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- quarter mile
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- medium
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Tom Steenburg intv. with Ron Schulz.
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- OCT 1989
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- NOV 1989
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- short
- Hair Colour
- black
- Hair Longer on
- head
- Arms
- long
- Arm Bulk
- bulky
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- turned around, walked away, returned
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- hanging
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Too far to tell if it had seen the men, but they thought it wanted to cross the road and was afraid to because of them.
- Additional Movement
- ran, entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Tom Steenburg
- Interview date
- OCT
- Witness Saw with
- binoculars, scope sight
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- half mile
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 4