Incident #1000487
Hoopa, Humboldt Cty, California
Jul 1963
Account
Betty Allen told John Fuhrmann that an Indian man and his 9-year-old boy were walking along a trail beside Highway 96 in Hoopa when a Bigfoot jumped a five-foot fence and disappeared in the darkness. It was not much taller than a man, but of trememdous width. She dated this incident in August, but it is reported in a Humboldt Times story, as reprinted in Roger Patterson's "Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?" dated July 20.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hoopa
- Distance from Town
- 0.0
- Population of Town
- 300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 5
- Latitude
- 41030-
- Longitude
- 123402-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Near or/at
- trees
- Super Human Action
- Jumped 5-root fence
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male and child
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- river
- Cover
- heavy
- Unnatural Conditions
- cleared
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Eureka, Cal., Humboldt Times, July 20, 1963. Also
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1963
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- jumping
- Later Movement
- crossed fence
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Additional Movement
- disappeared
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- MC
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- No of witnesses
- 2