Incident #1000580
Burnt Ranch, Trinity Cty, California
Feb 1976
Account
Jason and Jeffrey Ownbey, waiting for the school bus at their home two miles up Underwood Mountain Road from Burnt Ranch, found a single footprint in a mudhole, 16 inches by 6 inches, five toes. Someone named Debra J? later made a cast. Peter Guttilla interviewed the boys, and learned that their mother and her brother had heard unexplained loud screams close at hand the preceding year, and something shook the brother's trailer back and forth. Also in 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Ownbey were awakened by something pounding near their bedroom window, which was on the second floor. The pounding went on for several minutes. They were too frightened to look out.
When
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Trinity Cty
- Nearest Town
- Burnt Ranch
- Direction from Town
- West Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 404810
- Longitude
- 12329--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- Northeast
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Klam-ity Kourier,. Willow Creek, Cal. Feb 18, 1976
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1976
- Source reliability
- 1
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Number of Tracks
- 1
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
Witness
- Sex
- Child
- Interviewer
- Peter Guttilla
- Interview date
- JUL 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 10 to 15