Incident #1000328
Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California
Oct 1958
Account
Gerald Crew, after seeing huge tracks repeatedly while working as a bulldozer operator on the Bluff Creek road, made a cast of a 16-inch track, which he took to the Humboldt Times at Eureka, setting off the "Bigfoot" flap. He told John Green that the creature walked around the parked machines at night, as if inspecting them, and that it had moved full 50-gallon fuel drums.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 03 1958
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1958
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 412441
- Longitude
- 1234316
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- empty machine
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- 100 yards
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- pine, Douglas fir, madrona
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Rainfall
- normal
Source
- Source
- Gerald Crew intv. by No. 61(?). Also John Green in
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- OCT 58
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- OCT 58
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 0.50
- Heel
- 0.50
- Ball
- 0.50
- Toes
- 0.75
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.12
- Observer Weight
- 235
- Stride in Inches Average
- 50
- Longest
- 70
- Shortest
- 40
- Estimated Age
- 8
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 500
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Track Drag or Slide
- toe drag and heel slip
- Ball of Foot
- split
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Direction of Travel
- South
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Other Marks
- hand prints
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- water
- Trackmaker attracted by
- machine activity
- Remarks
- Handprints were humanlike with normal digits. Screams were heard, and a strong odour was present, thought to be connected with the, tracks.
Witness
- Interviewer
- No. 61
- Interview date
- JUN 10 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- roadbuilding, outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 41 to 50