Incident #1000478
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Sep 1962
Account
Betty Allen and five others went to see tracks at Bluff Creek and on Lonesome Ridge. Followed them, with a couple of breaks, for four miles on the Bluff Creek Road. Also saw tracks on Lonesome Ridge. (See 1000477) Eight casts were made in two places on the road, and two on the sand of the creek, within 500 yards of Notice Creek bridge. Whether this was the original Bigfoot or the 15-inch is not clear, but presumably one or the other. Paul Straham and Ike McClelly, both from Happy Camp, felling trees on right of way, said that they had seen many tracks, and that one morning they found items like hoses, cans and tools thrown around.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 26 1962
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1962
- 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
- 40
- Latitude
- 4126--
- Longitude
- 123432-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000477
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- 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 type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, fir, pine
Source
- Source
- Humboldt Times, Eureka, Cal., Sep 26 1962.
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1963
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1963
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Number of Tracks
- 5000
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Other footprint codes
- 10223
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt, sand
- Relation to Water
- entering water
- Tracks Came From
- road
- Tracks Went to
- water
- Trackmaker attracted by
- machine activity
Witness
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- 7