Incident #1000970
Gold Beach, Curry Cty, Oregon
Oct 1924
Account
Young man rounding up cattle on high ridges below Craggie Mountains, told Woodruff and others that he had encountered barefoot human tracks heading back into the mountains and followed them until it was too dark. Tracks were huge and paces long.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1924
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Curry Cty
- Nearest Town
- Gold Beach
- Direction from Town
- East Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 20
- Population of Town
- 1500
- Latitude
- 422---
- Longitude
- 1240---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
Weather and light
- Snow
- early snow
Source
- Source
- Jack Woodruff to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 0CT 1967
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Stride in Inches Average
- long
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Direction of Travel
- East
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Tracks Came From
- pasture
- Tracks Went to
- hillside
- Remarks
- Creature apparently headed for mountains after early light snow.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jack Woodruff
- Interview date
- OCT 1924
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- horseback, work outdoors
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20