Incident #1000458
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Oct 1958
Account
One of the original 1958 Bluff Creek reports, and one of the first sightings. Ray Kerr and Leslie Breazeale were about 1 1/2 miles below Louse Camp, driving back to camp on Sunday evening, when an erect, hair-covered, apelike creature, estimated 8 to 10 feet tall, bounded across the road in front of their pickup truck, swinging long, hairy arms. They got out and inspected tracks in the dirt with a flashlight. Tracks are not described, but by that date the 16-inch Bigfoot track was well known. On the other hand, descriptions of the creature making the tracks were all but unknown at that time. Bob Titmus knew a man who went to the site and saw the tracks.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 12 1958
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1958
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- brief
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
- 20
- Latitude
- 41283-
- Longitude
- 123485-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found immediately
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, pine, fir
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights, flashlight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Ray Kerr and Leslie Breazeale quote in Trinity Jou
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1958
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1958
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 9 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- crossed road, disappeared
- Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Estimated Age
- 0
- Age Unit
- minutes
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- hillside
- Remarks
- Toes dug in deeper than ball of foot.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 41 to 50