Incident #991234
International Falls, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota
May 1980
Account
Stanley Sutherland, 51, and two sons were returning from a fishing trip in Canada. On Hwy 11 six of seven miles west of International Falls, Stanley, on the right-hand side of the car, saw what he took for a gorilla running across a small field about 300 feet from him. It had hair streaming out behind its head and neck, perhaps 18 inches. Head had a slight peak. It was gone before the sons could see it, but one of them, David Sunderland, had seen one himself about 12 years earlier.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 03 1980
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Minnesota
- County
- Koochiching Cty
- Nearest Town
- International Falls
- Latitude
- 4836
- Longitude
- 9324
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- field
- Near or/at
- trees
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- The Sasquatch in Minnesota, 1996 edition, quoting Stanley Sunderland, Clearwater Cty., a friend of Ed Trimble's.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Hair Longer on
- headýneck
- Legs
- short
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- crossed view fieldýentered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Action on sighting
- studiedýkept going