Incident #1000615
Paradise, Butte Cty, California
Dec 1983
Account
Young woman was driving down a steep canyon to her cottage on a dark, stormy evening when she saw a huge Bigfoot cross the road into the brush. She had two earlier possible sightings. One she said looked like a tree fallen upright in the road, then the trunk divided and hurried away.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1983
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- evening
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Butte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Paradise
- Population of Town
- 22000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 3
- Latitude
- 3944--
- Longitude
- 12136--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- canyon
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- steep
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Virginia Louise Swanson quoting a young woman
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1984
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1984
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- very large
- Posture
- erect
- Later Movement
- crossed road, entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- No of witnesses
- 1