Incident #1001344
Crescent City, Del Norte Cty, California
Aug 1995
Account
Crew of TV series 'Adventures' horsing around in a motor home after work, with one of crew videoing antics. Saw animal on road in headlights and got some very poor video shots of it, upright, stooped, dark. Bump on tree where it left road indicated height 7.5 to 8 ft. Video too blurred to be useful. On Walker Road seven tenths of a mile from Hwy. 199, in Jebediah Smith Redwoods State Park. News reporter there the previous day reports much talk of Bigfoot. "Hard Copy" did a TV report after being approached by witness(es).
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 28 1995
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1995
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- 3 to 5 seconds
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Crescent City
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 4000
- Latitude
- 415---
- Longitude
- 1240---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Shot Hit
- No
- Photo
- Yes
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- Redwood
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Crescent City Triplicate. Also information from vi
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- NOV 9 1995
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- NOV 1995
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- stooped
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Neck Length
- short
- Head Profile
- rounded top
- Forehead
- average
- Torso Side
- wide
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Speed
- medium
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- ignored
- Position when first seen
- erect
- Head Size
- small
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Interview date
- NOV 1995
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- photographed
- No of witnesses
- 5
- Age
- 21 to 30
- Tape or Video
- Video recording