Incident #1000439
Platina, Shasta Cty, California
May 1970
Account
Archie Buckley, Delmas Buckley and Jim Whalen in a tent at Basin Gulch campground near Harrison Gulch Ranger Station, heard heavy footfalls in the night. Next morning Whalen found footprints in an adjacent campsite 50 yards away. Twenty-seven prints found, some in pine needles, some on road. Only those on road showed toes. Length 16 inches, width 5 1/2 inches, average pace 51 inches. The men were sasquatch hunting and had left a rotten salmon on top of a garbage can, which might have attracted the creature. Many people saw the prints, including Jim McClarin and Ben Foster. McClarin made two casts. Bigfoot Bulletin also mentions photos, computer report does not.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 13 1970
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Shasta Cty
- Nearest Town
- Platina
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 402107
- Longitude
- 1225750
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- camp
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- campsite
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- Northeast
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly new
- General
- some large
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- scattered
Weather and light
- Heat
- cold
- Relative Temperature
- cold
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- light snow
Source
- Source
- Jim McClarin intv Archie Buckley. Also Bigfoot Bul
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.5
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Average Depth
- 0.50
- Heel
- 0.50
- Ball
- 0.50
- Toes
- 0.50
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Observer Weight
- 160
- Stride in Inches Average
- 51
- Longest
- 67
- Shortest
- 44
- Estimated Age
- 5
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 27
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- poor
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- spread wide apart
- Direction of Travel
- not consistent
- Material Tracks Made in
- forest litter
- Trackmaker attracted by
- fish
- Remarks
- Rotten salmon placed as bait.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- MAY 22 1970
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- many
- Other report by this witness
- 3