Man Has Face to Face Encounter Outside of Willits
Account
The witness was driving north on Highway 101 north of Willits in daylight when a large hair-covered biped entered the roadway and ran across the lanes in front of the car. The witness braked and then stopped as the animal paused at the road edge about 25 feet away, turned its upper body and stared for about five seconds. The animal then bounded up a steep embankment on all fours and left.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- about 7 feet tall
- Build src
- very muscular, about 500 pounds
- Hair colour src
- black
- Face src
- like untanned leather, almost yellow to ripe banana, flat with minimal nose, hairless forehead with bony ridge, closed tight lips, rounded chin
- Eyes src
- dark brown with bloodshot whites and reddish glow from iris
- Arms src
- huge and long, massive
- Legs src
- very muscular and proportional
- Gait src
- ran fast on hind legs then dropped to all fours to pick up speed, bounding
- Posture src
- leaning forward with back parallel to ground when on all fours
- Age / size src
- very large
- Other features src
- round head with wool covering ears completely, no hair on face itself
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
8 July 2008
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| Time of day |
about 7:30-8 PM, still light
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| Place |
Willits, Mendocino County, California
Stated
BFRO report #24146
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
39.51, -123.39 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 24146 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 north on Highway 101
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| Witness's word for it |
very large creature
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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
- Brandon Kiel (BFRO)
footpath and individual step marks on steep embankment still clearly delineated a week later
flagged footpath and stride indentations photographed for the report
An investigator visited the site a week later, corroborated the area description, found the footpath markings still delineated, tried the climb, and flagged and photographed the marks.
An investigator visited the site a week later, corroborated the area description, found the footpath markings still delineated, tried the climb, and flagged and photographed the marks.
An investigator visited the site a week later, corroborated the area description, found the footpath markings still delineated, tried the climb, and flagged and photographed the marks.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #24146 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference