Eighteen campers find hut; videotape distressed bigfoot walking down mountain ridge
Account
A large camping group found a hut-like structure made of snapped boughs and filmed it in detail. While examining the structure, a group member pointed out a distant figure moving along a ridge. The witness videotaped the figure for several minutes as it moved back and forth, gestured, and disappeared behind rocks.
What was reported
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Sightings
Physical traces
Context & caveats
Described appearance
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- Height src
- between six and seven feet
- Build src
- tall and thin, not stocky or robust
- Hair colour src
- dark with white chest and stomach
- Face src
- no facial features visible
- Arms src
- long, hands reaching about to knees
- Hands src
- reaching about to knees
- Gait src
- bent-knee motion walking downhill
- Posture src
- hunched over
- Other features src
- head pointed on top
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
July 2000
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
late in the day
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| Place |
Ft. Jones, Siskiyou County, California
Stated
BFRO report #2928
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
41.37, -123.13 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 2928 (4 decimals, no boundary)
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| Account type |
Direct interview
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| Witnesses |
18
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
camping and examining a hut structure
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| Witness's word for it |
figure
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
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- Investigated by
- Kevin Withers (BFRO)
Three-minute video of distant ridge figure plus detailed footage of hut exterior and interior, copied to VCR with stills posted.
Measurements: figure visible three minutes; estimated one mile away
Hut of snapped pine boughs using standing trees, with large front and smaller rear openings and shredded needle floor, plus nearby unused large-stone fire pit.
Measurements: approximately six feet high, ten feet wide, and fifteen feet long
Long pine boughs three to four inches in diameter snapped off and trees up to eight inches snapped, with no saw or tool cuts and fresh needles.
Measurements: boughs three to four inches in diameter; trees up to eight inches in diameter
Several still shots from the video posted for review.
Reconstruction analysis in October 2004 estimated figure height.
Measurements: between six and seven feet
Investigators visited the witness, copied the camera video to tape, posted stills, and later completed reconstruction analysis.
Investigators visited the witness, copied the camera video to tape, posted stills, and later completed reconstruction analysis.
Investigators visited the witness, copied the camera video to tape, posted stills, and later completed reconstruction analysis.
The witness hiked to the ridge the next day but found no tracks because the ground was rocky.
A year later the witness revisited and found the hut gone with disturbed ground and a long rock-lined burned fire pit nearby.
Investigators visited the witness, copied the camera video to tape, posted stills, and later completed reconstruction analysis.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #2928 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference
The report refers to
- “Famous Bluff Creek Sightings”Not in the Anomadex yet