A field researcher describes the events of his two week long solo backpacking trip in the Bluff Creek area
Account
The witness was camped alone at the intersection of four logging roads in Northern California, tending a campfire late at night. He became aware of a pair of reflective eyes watching him from behind a bush about 70 feet away and watched them for over an hour as the fire died down until they disappeared. In the morning he found large foot-shaped flattened grass impressions leading to and from the spot behind the bush.
What was reported
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Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- about 2 feet taller than the witness
- Eyes src
- glossy yellow fading to faint yellow almost white, about 1 inch diameter and 4 1/2 to 5 inches apart, wet looking with blinking
- Feet src
- approximately 16 inches long and 7 to 8 inches wide, narrower at one end
- Posture src
- standing behind bush watching
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
August 1993
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
night, about 11:00pm to after 12:15am
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| Place |
Bluff Creek, Del Norte County, California
Stated
BFRO report #2954
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details
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| Map point |
41.2404, -123.6534 (± 20 km)
USGS GNIS stream 'Bluff Creek', Humboldt, matched from place name 'Bluff Creek'
Conflicting value41.7499, -123.9810 (± 32 km)
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
camping alone at a logging-road intersection, tending a campfire and watching roads
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| Witness's word for it |
a bigfoot
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
hair stuck in crevices and sap 3-6 ft up large pine at river field, collected as samples later tested with no match to known animal
Measurements: about three to six feet off the ground
young pines topped at about 6 ft with bent and broken branches over trampled areas
Measurements: about 6 feet above the ground
hair on young topped pines and broken tops, one broken top with hair collected in baggy
very large human-like pile with plant-like contents with large bipedal tracks straddling it, sample collected in baggy
flattened grass foot-shaped depressions behind camp bush leading in and out with one deeper depression near bush
Measurements: approximately 16 inches long and 7 to 8 inches wide
seven depressions in bipedal walk pattern at river field leading toward pines
Measurements: about three feet apart
photos of tracks taken during expedition
eye spacing and size estimated during night staring session
Measurements: approximately 4 1/2 to 5 inches apart and almost 1 inch in diameter
The witness made later wilderness trips without finding similar tracks, never had the scat tested, and had the hair tested with no match.
The witness made later wilderness trips without finding similar tracks, never had the scat tested, and had the hair tested with no match.
The witness made later wilderness trips without finding similar tracks, never had the scat tested, and had the hair tested with no match.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #2954 Primary
The report refers to
- “Mysteries of The Unexplained”Not in the Anomadex yet
- “famous Patterson Film of large hairy bipedal subject”Not in the Anomadex yet
- “August issue of a camping magazine article about backpacking in Northern California”Not in the Anomadex yet