Incident #1000389
Feather Falls, Butte Cty, California
Oct 1969
Account
Chuck Mauldin going upstream by boat in the middle fork of the Feather River, saw a creature running along an abandoned construction road several hundred feet up on the bank. Estimated 8 feet tall, covered with shaggy brown hair.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 11 1969
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Butte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Feather Falls
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 3936--
- Longitude
- 12119--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- West
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- 200 yards
- Substratum
- gravel
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- high
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- warm
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- moderate
- Lighting
- direct sunlight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Charles A. Mauldin intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Shoulders
- wide
- Shoulder Shape
- hunched
- Head Profile
- high in back
- Movement
- running
- Direction
- Northeast
- Later Movement
- stopped still, watched observer
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Reaction
- watched, avoided
- Additional Movement
- ran, went up slope
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- MAY 04 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- on small boat, hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Least vertical distance
- 300 feet
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 1