Incident #1000645
Hemet, Riverside Cty, California
Mar 1980
Account
On the Putnam Ranch (Incident 1000642) Don Raridon, while hunting, found footprints 17" by 6" by 4.5" and cast one of them. Tom Muzila, Peter Guttilla, Doug Trapp and Dan Perez have all seen the tracks and consider them authentic.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 16 1980
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Riverside Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hemet
- Population of Town
- 23000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 334---
- Longitude
- 1165---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Undergrowth
- heavy
Source
- Source
- BigfootTimes, April 5, 1980, quoting Don Raridon
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1980
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1980
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Heel Width
- 4.5
- Number of Tracks
- 8
- Track Condition
- fair
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Remarks
- Only two of eight tracks said to be "fairly definite and distinct."
Witness
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Track witnesses
- several