Incident #1000357
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Oct 1964
Account
Bob Wahlund saw Bigfoot tracks on the new road just below Laird Meadow for about a mile while on his way to work. This was the occasion, he says, when the tracks indicated that Bigfoot tipped over a trailer load of culverts, scattering them down the hillside. Pat Graves told that story as having happened in the daytime, with two work crews having heard the noise but each thought the other had made it. Betty Allen told John Fuhrmann that the overturned trailer was found in the morning, and John and a friend later talked to the man who owned the trailer, or so he said. He also said that there were new tracks there every morning for about a week. Presume Graves had an embellished version of the story.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 11
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 3.5
- Latitude
- 4123--
- Longitude
- 12344--
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
- Super Human Action
- Picked up and dumped trailer-load of culverts
- Related incident id
- 1000356
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Bob Wahlund intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 70
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 2
Creature description
- Arms Used
- for picking up
- Object Handled
- vehicle
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature apparently tipped over a trailer load of culverts.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.5
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 45
- Estimated Age
- 6
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 1000
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Direction of Travel
- West
- Material Tracks Made in
- deep dust
- Remarks
- Tracks indicated that the track maker had tipped over a trailer load of culverts.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUL 18 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoors
- Track witnesses
- several
- Other report by this witness
- 5