Incident #1001336
Rockaway, Tillamook Cty, Oregon
May 1994
Account
William Bigley, Larry Criswell and Chris Fidecoats were sitting at a beach campfire at 5 a.m. between Rockaway and Garibaldi when they heard a rustling in the bushes behind them. They ignored it, but five minutes later, several hundred feet away a big, black, long thing, not upright, bolted out of the brush and ran in a zig zag pattern around in front of them and towards the ocean. It was going an estimated 35 miles an hour. They thought of it as a big dog until they went to look at its tracks, which were bipedal, five fat toes, about six inches wide and 13 inches long, without the heels showing. Stride was at least six or seven feet. They could not match it running.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 22 1994
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1994
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Tillamook Cty
- Nearest Town
- Rockaway
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 1000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0.1
- Latitude
- 4534--
- Longitude
- 12356--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Super Human Action
- 6 to 7-ft strides running bent to ground
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- shore
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- West
- Nearby Water
- ocean
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Clarity
- clear
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- The Sasquatch Report, Tim Olson interview with Wil
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- JUNE 1994
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JAN 1995
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Posture
- very stooped
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- running
- Direction
- West
- Later Movement
- turned left, ran
- Speed
- very fast
- Running Stride
- long
- Running Speed
- very fast
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Reaction
- avoided
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature ran so low it was mistaken for a quadruped until its footprints were studied.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- 40 mph
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- big
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 78
- Longest
- 84
- Shortest
- 72
- Estimated Age
- 5
- Age Unit
- minutes
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Direction of Travel
- West
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Relation to Water
- near water
- Tracks Came From
- bushes
- Tracks Went to
- water
- Trackmaker attracted by
- water
- Remarks
- Tracks were estimated at 13 inches long, but with the heels not showing.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Tim Olson
- Interview date
- MAY 1994
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 3
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Age
- 16 to 20