First-hand
Sasquatch Chronicles (podcast, local transcripts) #911f9713-7ff9-43d3-bb7d-cce1241d0fd2
Cryptid sighting in California (1998)
1998
around midnight during full moon
California
1 witness
Account
Later the same year, the witness was alone paddling a 17-foot canoe on the small lake late at night. Something large rose under the canoe and lifted it a foot or two out of the water, and he balanced on its ridged back for a few seconds and saw overlapping large scales in moonlight. It lowered him back down, and he paddled fast to the dock and did not experience it again despite many later trips.
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- Build src
- super girthy, big round body
- Other features src
- several feet visible, bigger than canoe, thick round spine, overlapping large scales like tea saucer size, dark gray or black
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