Incident #1001363
St. Charles, Bear Lake Cty, Idaho
Jan 1972
Account
Justin Phelps went by snowmobile into the bottom of a canyon where he had seen an apelike creature on two previous occasions, all in winter. Lying on the machine, by a fire, he looked up and saw a 4.5-foot creature covered with greyish brown hair standing by a small pine about 100 yards away. When it saw him looking at it, it "waved its arms and stomped its feet" and headed into deeper woods, leaving tracks a foot deep in two feet of new snow.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 02 1972
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Idaho
- County
- Bear Lake Cty
- Nearest Town
- St. Charles
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 60
- Latitude
- 421---
- Longitude
- 1112---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- tree
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- valley bottom
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Snow Condition
- new over old
- Cover
- spotty
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- some
- Species
- alder, cottonwood, pine
Weather and light
- Relative Temperature
- cold
- Snow
- unusually deep
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Pocatello, Idaho, Journal, quoting Justin "Judd" P
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- FEB 25 1972
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1970'S
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 5 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- grey brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- gestured, walked away, entered woods
- Arms Action
- gesturing, swinging
- Human Contact
- watch
- Reaction
- watched, avoided
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Describe Unsual
- Witness also tells of two other sightings in the same vicinity, at least one involving a 6-foot creature, but no other details.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 12.0
- Average Depth
- 12.00
- Estimated Age
- 10
- Age Unit
- minutes
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- George Neavoll, Pocatello Journal
- Interview date
- FEB 1972
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- lying down
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 41 to 50
- Other report by this witness
- 2