Incident #1000462
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Sep 1958
Account
Typical "Bigfoot" tracks found in dirt of road under construction up Bluff creek several times up to last week of September, with a normal stride of 50 inches. Betty Allen said tracks were seen four times in six weeks.
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1958
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 13
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 41243-
- Longitude
- 1234320
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
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- 100 yards
- 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, fir, pine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Gerry Crew intv by John Green
- Source Type
- interview
- Source Date
- 1958
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1958
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 4
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 50
- Estimated Age
- 6
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- road
- Remarks
- General entry for several track incidents on Bluff Creek Road, late summer and early fall, 1958.
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- SEPT 1958
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Track witnesses
- many