Motorist returning from fireworks display gets a good look at a bigfoot near Ashford
Account
After midnight while driving west toward Elbe, the witness saw a large hairy figure cross the highway ahead and enter fir trees. As the car closed the distance, the figure stepped onto the grass and pushed a fir bough from its face, showing a gorilla-like ear. The witness braked and turned toward the trees but the car stalled and the adult passenger became upset, so the witness left and returned the next day to look for sign.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- 10 foot
- Build src
- enormous
- Hair colour src
- light brown
- Arms src
- lifting one arm to push bough
- Gait src
- walked across highway
- Other features src
- gorilla-like ear on side of head; fur coat-like covering
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
July 1987
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
a little after midnight
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| Place |
Ashford, Pierce County, Washington
Stated
BFRO report #23614
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
46.75, -122.12 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 23614 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
driving home from fireworks display
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| Witness's word for it |
10 foot bigfoot
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
- Investigated by
- Scott Taylor (BFRO)
Scuff-like heel marks about five inches wide with about five-foot spacing followed through needles and mud flat to steep slope with deep heel impressions.
Measurements: five inches across; about 5 feet in span; about 50 to 70 yards
Branch the creature reportedly pushed aside measured ten feet off the ground using a twelve-foot fishing rod to estimate height.
Measurements: ten feet off the ground; 12 foot sturgeon fishing rod
The witness returned the next day, followed scuff-like heel marks to a slope toward the river, and measured the pushed-aside branch to estimate height.
The witness returned the next day, followed scuff-like heel marks to a slope toward the river, and measured the pushed-aside branch to estimate height.
The witness returned the next day, followed scuff-like heel marks to a slope toward the river, and measured the pushed-aside branch to estimate height.
An investigator spoke with the witness by phone for about an hour and visited the reported road-crossing location.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #23614 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference
The report refers to
- “sightings in Eatonville, and Copper Creek area, Graham, Puyallup and Oakville”Not in the Anomadex yet