Nightime roadside encounter near Orangeville
Account
The witness rode as a passenger in a car with four companions on a dark two-lane highway and encountered an animal standing on the road. The driver stopped within a few feet and the occupants watched it move quadrupedally to the road edge, sit, and hesitate as if to flee. They then drove slowly past it within a couple feet, after which it was gone when looked for behind them.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- 3 to 3 and a half feet tall in crouch sitting position
- Build src
- lean body, about 200 pounds, massive shoulders or upper back kind of humped
- Hair colour src
- mainly light brown with grey undertones with flecks of black
- Hair length src
- about 1 inch, shorter on face, feet and hands
- Face src
- flat face, apelike nose with nostrils pointed upward
- Eyes src
- forward looking like a predator
- Arms src
- two front legs used in rabbit-like movement
- Hands src
- hair shorter on hands
- Legs src
- two back legs, rear end never touched ground
- Feet src
- wide but not long, underside white, hair shorter on feet
- Gait src
- moving like a rabbit, two front then two back, crawling unnaturally low
- Posture src
- sitting crouched with rump down, head up then forward
- Other features src
- pointed head, no tail, no butt pad, little ears, little or no neck, head sits forward, crease between head and shoulders, spine protruding when tense, four prominent canines
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
5 May 1990
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
1 a.m.
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| Place |
Ontario
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| Map point |
44.15, -80.03 (± 3 km)
BFRO map layer point for report 25857 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
4
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
riding as passenger in a car at night
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| Witness's word for it |
a large male baboon
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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
- Todd Prescott (BFRO)
An investigator spoke at length with the witness by phone and recorded additional details not in the written report.
An investigator visited and searched the sighting area on foot and by vehicle but reported finding no sign of animals living there.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #25857 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference