Incident #1001510
Grand Prairie, Alberta
Dec 1998
Account
Jack Durrant and Stewart ? driving South on Rt. 40 from Grand Prairie, 9.30 a.m. just past Windy Andy Rd., when they saw a 7 ft., dark brown, hair-covered creature on a hill beside the road. Apparently about to cross, it seemed to stop itself by grabbing a tree, but then let go and walked swiftly and gracefully down the hill, jumped the ditch and crossed about 175 feet in front of them. There were tracks, in about a foot of snow, but the men did not get out of the truck to look at them.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 12 1998
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1998
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- Nearest Town
- Grand Prairie
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 20
- Population of Town
- 30000
- Latitude
- 5450--
- Longitude
- 11840--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- hill
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- hill
- Snow Condition
- deep new
- Cover
- some trees
- General
- some
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 10
Source
- Source
- Tom Steenburg intv. with Jack Durrant
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- MAY 1999
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAY 1999
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Movement
- staying still
- Direction
- East
- Later Movement
- went down slope, jumped, crossed road
- Walking Speed
- fast
- Arms Used
- hanging onto something
- Object Handled
- tree
- Describe Unsual
- The men were impressed by the speed and gracefulness of the creature's movements, in a foot of snow.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- fast
- Additional Movement
- entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Tom Steenburg
- Interview date
- MAY 1999
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 2