A missing Eugene man may be headed through Northern California and an unconfirmed sighting of him in Eureka has drawn family members to ask Humboldt County to be on the lookout for Noah Michael DeWitt.

DeWitt, a 5’ 11” 140-pound 24-year-old with long brown hair who left a friend’s house early the morning of Feb. 14, has not been seen or heard from since, his mother Joan Zivi said.

Zivi said their family is from San Anselmo in Marin County and while they moved to Portland in 2006 and DeWitt later went on to live in Eugene, he had close friends in Northern California.

She and others think he may be headed in that direction.

DeWitt did not have his car, cell phone, wallet or even shoes when he left his former roommate and friends’ house, Zivi said.

“The thing that is just so not like him is to not let us know,” she said. “He does have that kind of spirit where he might want to go off and travel, he has done that before, but not without letting us know where he is.”

DeWitt’s former roommate who was one of the last ones known to speak with him and later filed the initial missing person report, said he was acting very differently the night before he left her house.

“He was having a lot of anxiety, he thought that bad things had been happening to him all day,” Jesika Feather said. “He was delusional a little bit. He was really worried about himself. He was having a lot of delusional and paranoid thoughts.”

Feather said she is unsure whether or not DeWitt was on any sort of drugs the night before he disappeared.

“In the three years that I lived with Noah I had never seen this, never,” she said.

The Eugene Police Department issued a missing persons press release on Feb. 17 and has since received several different calls from people claiming to have seen DeWitt, Eugene Police Department public information director Melinda McLaughlin said.

Among those was a call from someone who claimed to have seen him in Eureka last Friday, McLaughlin said.

“They said that they talked to him but we couldn’t identify the person so we can’t confirm it,” she said. “At this point you don’t know, once someone is missing you don’t know how far they are able to get.”

If anyone has information regarding DeWitt’s whereabouts they are asked to call the Eugene Police Department at 541-682-5111 or his friends at 541-342-1200 or 541-912-6842.

Contact Juniper Rose at 707-441-0506.