Two teenage girls have daytime encounter on Big Sur Coast
Account
In early spring 1974, the witness and a same-aged companion were sitting on the sand at a Big Sur beach campground. The witness looked toward the mountainside and saw a large dark bipedal figure running rapidly downhill over steep rugged terrain. After alerting her companion, who also glimpsed the figure as it entered the treeline, both girls fled to the campground. The sighting lasted an estimated 10 to 15 seconds on a sunny late morning.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- tall
- Build src
- broad proportioned upper body
- Hair colour src
- black
- Arms src
- exaggerated arm movements
- Gait src
- running downhill very fast without losing balance
- Posture src
- bipedal
- Age / size src
- big
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
15 April 1974
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
around 11:00 A.M.
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| Place |
Gorda, Monterey County, California
Stated
BFRO report #12247
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
35.56, -121.29 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 12247 (4 decimals, no boundary)
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
sitting on beach sand while camping
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| Witness's word for it |
something big and black
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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
- Bart Cutino (BFRO)
An investigator conducted initial and follow-up phone interviews with the witness and tried unsuccessfully to locate her childhood companion.
An investigator reviewed aerial photos, consulted former park employees, and correlated the described terrain with an area near Gorda.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #12247 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference