Incident #1001361
Fort Nelson, Northeast Corner, British Columbia
Aug 1993
Account
Brian Fertuck and another man were doing a "check cruise" for the B.C. Forest Service North of the Liard River, 57 kilometres north of the Alaska Highway on road 317, about 3-6 miles from the Liard. In a forest of 'over mature" timber they heard footfalls around them and he looked back and saw "a big red monkey" 8 to 10 feet tall with a dark face. His partner, with poor eyesight, could not see it. It stepped smoothly out of sight behind the roots of a fallen tree. They found two sets of tracks in the mud of the root pad hollow, one huge and one smaller. (Location given would not relate to the Liard proper, but to the Fort Nelson River, a major tributary.)
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1993
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Northeast Corner
- Nearest Town
- Fort Nelson
- Direction from Town
- North Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 40
- Population of Town
- 4000
- Latitude
- 591---
- Longitude
- 1225---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- many large
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- Species
- alder
- Variety
- wild rose, cranberries
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Brian Fertuck phone call to John Bindernagel
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- JAN 1994
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAY 1996
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 9 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair curl
- kinky
- Hair Colour
- red
- Hair Longer on
- other
- Face Colour
- dark
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- watched, avoided
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Describe Unsual
- Hair was "especially long and wavy at the armpits". Creature walked sideways apparently to maintain eye contact with observer. Movement was smooth.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- big
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Remarks
- Second set of tracks not entered, as no information except that they were smaller than these.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Bindernagel
- Interview date
- JAN 1994
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoors
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- 2