Incident #1000627
Klamath, Del Norte Cty, California
Sep 1992
Account
Joshua Owen, 8, and a friend, 12, were out looking for snakes when they heard something in the brush, smelled a rotten meat odour, and looked up to see a big hairy creature standing erect about 100 feet away. They ran, but saw it also run. Covered with thick brown hair, shaking a branch in its hand. Daryl Owen, Joshua's father, went to the site and found huge footprints, and heard something going uphill in the brush. He later took Scott Herriott and Dan Wedeking to the site. In total they found 34 footprints, 16.5 by 8.5 inches, average stride 56 inches. One was cast. Following the sighting the Owens heard screams in the canyon behind their homes during the night, as if two creatures were calling to each other. The following month Daryl Owen and another man saw a sasquatch in the same area and took a video, but it shows nothing definite. Hairs were also collected.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 12 1992
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1992
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- late morning
- Duration
- 3 to 5 seconds
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Klamath
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2
- Latitude
- 4134--
- Longitude
- 12402--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Near or/at
- trees
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Child or children
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- hillside
- Slope
- steep
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- Undergrowth
- heavy
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Steve Selke, Crescent City, Cal., Triplicate. Plus
- Source Type
- phone call
- Source Date
- 1992
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1992
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled
- Arms Action
- gesturing
- Arms Used
- for shaking
- Object Handled
- stick
- Sound
- scream
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- fled from
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- When first seen was shaking a branch, presumably still on the tree.
- Evidence Left
- footprints, hair
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.5
- Greates Width
- 8.5
- Heel Width
- 5.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 56
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 34
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- forest litter
Witness
- Sex
- Child
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- under 10