Incident #1000334
Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California
Aug 1959
Account
Bob Titmus, sasquatch hunting, found "15-inch" tracks on Bluff Creek sandbar for the third time. Art Long, Cottonwood, Calif., also saw them. These were new, made since the tracks seen two weeks before.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 30 1959
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1959
- Season
- summer
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
- sandbar
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000330, 1000331, 1000333
- Shot Hit
- No
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
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- madrona, pine, Douglas fir
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus intv. by John Green
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 70
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 70
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 45
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- weeks
- Number of Tracks
- 100
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- 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
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Other footprint codes
- 10126, 10127, 10129
- Direction of Travel
- East
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet sand
- Remarks
- Third time Bob Titmus found 15-inch tracks on Bluff Creek sandbar.
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 28 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Other report by this witness
- 22