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Class B First-hand BFRO #4929

Teenager hears unusual daytime vocalization near Courtright Reservoir

1 August 1981 dusk, maybe 7:30 in the evening It Might Be Shaver Lake, But It Is Hard To Tell. At Any Rate, We Were A Very Long Way From Shaver Lake Or Any Other Town, Up In The Mountains. We Parked The Car At Courtright Reservoir., Fresno County, California 1 witness

Account

The witness was fishing alone at dusk near camp at Fleming Lake when repeated distant undulating wailing calls were heard from a valley to the north/northeast. The calls came in five or six bouts of five to six rising-falling segments each over about a minute and were estimated to originate one to two miles away. Two companions at camp did not hear the sounds, and nothing else unusual was noticed for the remainder of the trip.

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What was reported

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Sounds

Whoop

Facts & provenance

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Date
1 August 1981
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, labelled fields: Year, Month, Date
Time of day
dusk, maybe 7:30 in the evening
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, “Time And Conditions” section
Place
It Might Be Shaver Lake, But It Is Hard To Tell. At Any Rate, We Were A Very Long Way From Shaver Lake Or Any Other Town, Up In The Mountains. We Parked The Car At Courtright Reservoir., Fresno County, California
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
Map point
37.08, -118.97 (± 1000 m)
Stated BFRO map layer · BFRO published map layer · read with 85% confidence
BFRO map layer point for report 4929 (4 decimals, no boundary)
Account type
First-hand
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witnesses
1
Derived BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Witness was
fishing while on a backpacking trip
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witness's word for it
distinct distant wailing animal call
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Source classification
Class B
Stated BFRO report #4929 · BFRO classification label

Evidence & investigation

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Follow-up

An investigator spoke with the witness by phone and noted speculation that the vocalization was a location call possibly from a female or young male.

BFRO report, “Follow-Up” section

Source timeline

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  1. BFRO report #4929 Primary
    Published 2002-09-13 Retrieved 2026-09-24 Version 1 Hash fd389116e32c
    BFRO - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization
  2. BFRO map layer Reference
    Retrieved 2026-09-24 Version 1 Hash cfb8a3d423b7
    BFRO - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

The report refers to

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  • “a report on some other bigfoot-related website about three years ago”
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