Incident #1000446
Newman, Stanislaus Cty, California
Sep 1870
Account
Story says that F.J. Hildreth and Samuel De Groot, of Washington Corners (now Irvington, part of Fremont, Cal.) found humanlike footprints with larger toes while hunting on Orestimba Creek, and later saw what they were sure was gorillas. Not enough information for entries on creatures or footprints. They were separated when they made separate sightings.
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1870
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Stanislaus Cty
- Nearest Town
- Newman
- Direction from Town
- West
- Population of Town
- 2700
- Latitude
- 371---
- Longitude
- 1211---
What was seen
- Population Status
- wild
- Related incident id
- 1000445
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found previously
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Source
- Source
- Oakland Daily Transcript, Sept. 27, 1870, quoted i
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1870
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1974
- Incident type
- 3
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Track witnesses
- 2