Bicycling student has night encounter
Account
Late at night the witness stopped under a streetlight while biking back to school to fix a brake. He heard loud bipedal footsteps approaching, then saw a white-haired gorilla-like creature about 20-25 feet away. The creature chased him briefly, moving bipedally and on its knuckles, before stopping, swaying, and climbing over a rock wall. The witness rode to a nearby house and waited until morning.
What was reported
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Described appearance
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- Height src
- six feet tall
- Build src
- massive, maybe 400 pounds or more
- Hair colour src
- white looking
- Hair length src
- long on arms
- Face src
- dark, human-like nose and mouth, wide nose, no snout
- Eyes src
- close together and set deep in the face
- Arms src
- massive, straight down to knuckles, long hair
- Hands src
- resting on knuckles
- Legs src
- knees slightly bent
- Gait src
- ran on two legs, then down on knuckles then back up
- Posture src
- on knuckles with knees bent, head higher in back
- Other features src
- peaked head sloping into back, enormous shoulders, head connected to neck
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
September 1974
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| Time of day |
about 10:00pm, very dark
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| Place |
Wakefield, Washington County, Rhode Island
Stated
BFRO report #6496
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
41.45, -71.50 (± 3 km)
BFRO map layer point for report 6496 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 |
riding a bicycle back to school, stopped to adjust a brake
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| Witness's word for it |
white looking gorilla
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
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- Investigated by
- Dr. Wolf H. Fahrenbach (BFRO)
An investigator interviewed the eyewitness and summarized the animal's appearance and movement.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #6496 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference