Incident #1000473
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Aug 1962
Account
Dennis M. (Skip) Clark accompanied by his brother Danny and T.E. Williams Jr., was working on an Annapolis senior term paper about Bigfoot-type. creatures. They drove up the Bluff Creek road and saw tracks on a sandbar below the road, "4 miles Northeast of Onion Mountain" probably the same bar Bob Titmus had found tracks on in 1958 and 1959. Estimated size 16 inches by 8 inches and stride 52 inches, but cast shows it was the "15-inch" track. Followed tracks about a half mile along the creek in both directions. They finally went straight up a bank too steep for a man to climb straight up, digging toes into hillside with 36-inch stride. Tracks were 1 1/2 inches deep, where Clark made no impression.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1962
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 12
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 41244-
- Longitude
- 123431-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Super Human Action
- 36-inch stride up hill too steep for man to climb
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000485
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom, steep
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- wet
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, pine, fir
Source
- Source
- Eureka Humboldt Times, Aug 10, 1962. Also Dennis M
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1961
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 1.50
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Observer Weight
- 185
- Stride in Inches Average
- 52
- Shortest
- 36
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet sand
- Relation to Water
- near water
- Tracks Came From
- shore
- Tracks Went to
- hillside
- Remarks
- Observer jumped from 5-foot rock and could only sink his heels in a quarter inch, where tracks were 1 1/2 inches deep.
Witness
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Age
- 21 to 30