Incident #1000552
Round Mountain, Shasta Cty, California
Dec 1970
Account
John Russak said his mother in law, Barbara Mota, found tracks 16' by 7", like a human foot but with only four toe marks, on his property on Fenders Ferry Road while looking for her cat. Tracks were in snow, 18 inches apart according to the original story, but later stories say 38 inches. They came came from the mountain behind the house and disappeared in an area where the snow was melted away. They were partially melted out. Russak told Warren Thompson that he had backtracked for about two miles. Tracks followed a power line, perhaps coming froma rugged canyon Northeast of the house. Dogs had barked for four hours in the night two days before the tracks were found. He thought the creature might have been heading for a trailer-load of garbage at the corner of the house, but have been scared off by the dogs.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 30 1970
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Shasta Cty
- Nearest Town
- Round Mountain
- Direction from Town
- North
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 404914
- Longitude
- 121555-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Related incident id
- 1000576
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Snow Condition
- snow
Source
- Source
- Redding Record Searchlight, Cal. Jan 7 1971. quoti
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1971
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1971
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 38
- Estimated Age
- 2
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Number of Toes
- 4
- Direction of Travel
- South
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Tracks Came From
- canyon
- Trackmaker attracted by
- refuse
- Remarks
- Tracks circled a tree near occupied house. There was a trailer load of garbage by the house.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Warren Thompson
- Interview date
- FEB 1971
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- several