Incident #1000495
Orleans, Del Norte, California
1964
Account
Samuel A. Brewer Jr., school teacher, worked on highway crew and looked for tracks on weekends along Bluff Creek. Found tracks on two occasions. Made a cast of 15 1/2-inch track, appears to be the usual "15-inch", found on sandbar after fighting through waist-high brambles and other underbrush. No precise location.
When
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Population of Town
- 200
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill, valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- 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
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, pine, fir
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Fresno, Cal., Bee, Sep 15 1964
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1964
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 47
- Number of Tracks
- 2
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- 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
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet sand
- Remarks
- No information about second track find, so no separate entry.
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 31 to 40