Incident #1000497
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Oct 1964
Account
Roger Patterson and Rod Thornton had gone to Bluff Creek sasquatch hunting. They met Pat Graves, who told them there were tracks on the Laird Meadow Road. There they found 17-inch tracks coming down the mountain, across a road, around an old logging landing and over the bank into the brush. They made a cast, plainly the original "Bigfoot". Tracks were 1 1/2 inches deep and showed toe movement.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 21 1964
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- fall
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
- 30
- Latitude
- 4123--
- Longitude
- 1234---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- hillside
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- none
- Unnatural Conditions
- logged
- General
- none
- Undergrowth type
- logging slash
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Roger Patterson intv by John Green. Also from Roge
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1066
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1966
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 7.5
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 1.50
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.01
- Observer Weight
- 140
- Stride in Inches Average
- 52
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ball of Foot
- split
- 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
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Direction of Travel
- East
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- bushes
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- 1967
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 31 to 40