Hiker has strange late night experience in Emigrant Wilderness
Account
The witness and a companion hiked in and camped for the night near a creek. Around midnight while drifting to sleep, the witness heard a large heavy bipedal source splashing across the deep creek, walking with pauses for about a minute. The companion did not hear anything.
What was reported
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Sounds
Described appearance
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- Build src
- large, heavy
- Legs src
- two-legged
- Gait src
- walk a little while, stop, then continue
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
August 1999
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| Time of day |
Between midnight and 1:00 a.m.
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| Place |
Strawberry, Tuolumne County, California
Stated
BFRO report #1963
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
38.32, -119.75 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 1963 (4 decimals, no boundary)
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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 overnight after hiking
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| Witness's word for it |
a large, heavy, two-legged creature
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| Source classification |
Class B
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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.
An investigator spoke with the witness by phone and obtained no additional details.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #1963 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference