Incident #1000330
Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California
Nov 1958
Account
This was the first recorded encounter with the Bluff Creek "15-inch" track. Bob Titmus and Ed Patrick had looked at old 16-inch "Bigfoot" tracks on the Bluff Creek road then under construction, and were searching for more tracks, which they found on the banks of the creek, about 200 feet below. John Green and Gus Milliken saw the tracks a few days later. Titmus followed the tracks a couple of hundred yards up the creek before coming to a sandbar where he was able to cast four perfect impressions. Where the tracks went into the woods there were three trees twisted off about six feet high along the line of travel. Identical tracks were found on the same sand bar exactly a year later and on several other occasions. They have also turned up in other places in the vicinity, including Blue Creek Mountain and Onion Mountain, sometimes accompanied by a 13 inch track.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 02 1958
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1958
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 16
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 15
- Latitude
- 412440
- Longitude
- 1234311
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000331, 1000333, 1000334
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- 25 feet
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Ground condition
- wet
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- pine, Douglas fir
Weather and light
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- high
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus intv. by John Green. Also personal obse
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- NOV 58
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- NOV 58
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 6.5
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Heel
- 1.00
- Ball
- 1.00
- Toes
- 1.50
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.10
- Observer Weight
- 175
- Stride in Inches Average
- 46
- Longest
- 72
- Estimated Age
- 12
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 20
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Track Drag or Slide
- no drag or slide
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- Yes
- 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
- Other footprint codes
- 10127, 10129, 10130
- Direction of Travel
- North
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet sand, gravel
- Tracks Came From
- shore
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 27 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 4
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Other report by this witness
- 22