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DATE: September, 2000

TIME: 8:55-9:04 P.M.

LOCATION: Lakebay, Washington, Pierce County

TERRAIN: Wooded


OBSERVED: I heard a low "hooting," almost like a cross between a dog howling and an owl, but very low pitched, coming from North by Northwest, my guess about 1/4 mile away. I don't know how to describe it very well. The low hooting was repeated and lasted at least ten minutes with an occasional raise to a "bay," almost like what I would imagine an elephant to sound like. OH- I just went outside again and there were two more hoots (more like a moan this time 9:34PM) I would not have thought any more of it if I had not seen a bipedal thing (I have told myself it was some whacked dude for years) spring from the bushes and run into the woods when I approached it in July of 1998. Better detail on this sighting is provided in the appropriate section, below.

The thing I noticed most was this: None of the neighborhood dogs were making a sound. My neighbor has several half-wolves and they howl at the least wierd sound. We do have a bear that comes by from time to time digging in people's trash, and these dogs go absolutely ape-wild when the bear is wandering around.

The hooting stopped when a large military helicopter (It was too dark to see, I think it was a Chinook) came flying low from the northwest and moved on toward the southeast. This is not unusual for my area, helicopters from Gray Army airfield train in my area often. The helecopter wasn't doing anything strange, the only reason I mentioned this is because I think it scared whatever it was into stopping its hooting.

I had moved onto my raw property with my wife and children where we lived in a camper on the back of a pickup. My dog whined and growled from inside the camper. I opened the camper door and went out with him to see what he was fussing about. He was whining in one general direction and I started walking toward it. All of a sudden, about four feet in front of me, a crouched figure sprang up and bounded into the woods. At first I thought it was a petty thief who thought the camper was abandoned nosing around. I looked on all the roads for a car, but there was no vehicles whatsoever. I was kind of spooked. When I returned to the camper, my wife asked me: "What was out there?" "Nothing," I replied.

The area I live in is primarily composed of mobile homes on 2-1/2 acre lots. There are several heavily wooded gullies. In 1998 a patient at Western State Mental Hospital escaped during a field trip. He starved himself to death and was not found for three weeks, despite a full search and rescue effort. Local rumor says an old woman died in one of these gullies and was not found for three years, but this was before I lived here.



Description of Creature: Undetermined crouched figure


Activities of Witness: I went outside to smoke a cigarette

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