Incident #992668
Geraldton, Thunder Bay Cty, Ontario
Oct 1978
Account
Randy Corcoran said that while hiking he heard a large creature moving in the bush and hid behind a rock. He saw a 6-foot, humanlike animal covered with long reddish-brown hair walk across the trail.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Ontario
- County
- Thunder Bay Cty
- Nearest Town
- Geraldton
- Latitude
- 4943
- Longitude
- 8657
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Near or/at
- rock
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Victoria, B.C., Times, Oct. 20, 1978, quoting Randy Corcoran, 18, Geraldton, Ont.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- did not see
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Action on sighting
- stayed stillýstudied