Incident #1000613
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
1982
Account
Bob Titmus spent several weeks looking for tracks around Bluff Creek. He found and cast 15 1/2 inch tracks on the same sandbar where the Patterson film was made, apparently from the same creature as shown in the film.
When
- Year
- 1982
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 13
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 412545
- Longitude
- 1234316
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, fir, pine
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1982
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- 1986
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.5
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 61 to 70
- Other report by this witness
- 22