Incident #1000494
Mariposa, Mariposa Cty, California
Jul 1964
Account
Scout troop hiking along Plumbar Creek a mile from their camp on the Gresham Ranch, Joe Christensen Jr. and Doug McElroy found a footprint an inch deep in mud. Print was 17 inches by 7 1/2 inches, five toes with the big toe on the opposite side from the instep. Boys went back to camp and got plaster. Camp medic Dick Beathel found under twigs and leaves 10 feet from the first one a print of the opposite foot, about 1/4 inch deep in clay. Big toe was also on the wrong side.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Mariposa Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mariposa
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 7
- Population of Town
- 1000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 37321-
- Longitude
- 119565-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- wet
Source
- Source
- Modesto, Cal., Bee, July 16, 1964 quoting Dick Bea
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1964
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 7.5
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 2
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Longest Toe
- other
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Remarks
- Longest and largest toe was on the opposite side from the instep.
Witness
- Sex
- MC
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- many
- Age
- 10 to 15