Incident #1000486
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Jul 1963
Account
Three young men slept in their car on Notice Creek Spur Road. In the morning there were "15-inch" tracks coming up from Bluff Creek and crossing the road less than 100 feet from where they slept.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 13 1963
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
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
- 41242-
- Longitude
- 123431-
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
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, pine, fir
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Betty Allen's Bigfoot Diary
- Source Type
- book
- Source Date
- 1963
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Estimated Age
- 6
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- many