Incident #991244
Mizpah, Koochiching Cty, Minnesota
Nov 1990
Account
Waiting in pickup for fellow hunters to return, Mr. Lammers and son surprised by 6-foot gorilla-like creature, very heavy and muscular, covered with dark brown hair, which grabbed the back of the truck and shook it violently, while making strange grunting sounds. It the crossed the road, picked up a rock 2 1/2 feet wide and threw it 15 feet into the truck box, denting the metal 6 inches deep. It then ran off, effortly leaping over a brush pile.
When
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1990
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Minnesota
- County
- Koochiching Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mizpah
- Latitude
- 4725
- Longitude
- 9356
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied machine
- Super Human Action
- Threw huge rock into pickup box
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
Source
- Source
- The Sasquatch in Minnesota, 1996, Marion Senn quoting Mr. Lammers and his 12-year-old son.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Later Movement
- made a noiseýhandled somethingýwalked away
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- truck
- Arms Used
- for shakingýfor throwing
- Object Handled
- vehicleýrock
- Sound
- grunt
- Human Contact
- bluff
- Reaction
- approached
- Additional Movement
- picked something upýthrew somethingýjumped
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- stayed still