Incident #1001341
Goleta, Santa Barbara Cty, California
1952
Account
Darlene Wilson, an a darkened dining room smelled an atrocious smell and saw through an open window a huge, broad, hairy creature silhouetted by road lights. It stood motionless, then turned and sauntered away. Close to 10 feet tall. Smell lingered
When
- Year
- 1952
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Santa Barbara Cty
- Nearest Town
- Goleta
- Population of Town
- 500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0.1
- Latitude
- 3426--
- Longitude
- 11949--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- garden
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- garden
- Nearby Water
- ocean
Weather and light
- Lighting
- street light
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Strange Magazine, quoted in Bigfoot Co-op, Aug, 19
- Source Type
- magazine
- Source Date
- FALL, 1994
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- OCT 1995
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 10 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observer
- Walking Speed
- slow
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- watched
- Attracted By
- human shelter
- Additional Movement
- turned, walked away
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- No of witnesses
- 1