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August 1981 Humboldt County, California Class B #2142

Campers smell foul odor

Around midnight during a meteor shower outing, the witness was alone in a clearing, felt watched, then heard nearby rustling and ran back to camp. Shortly after, the group noticed an extremely strong sulfurous musky odor coming from a stand of trees. They pursued stomping and thrashing sounds uphill but never saw the source, and the pursuers fled after the sound and smell abruptly stopped.

OdorMovement onlyFootstepsAnimal behaviour
May 1979 Del Norte County, California Class A #1664

While sitting around a campfire witnesses saw a set of red glowing eyes

The witness and four companions were sitting and talking around a campfire at night when they heard loud crashing and rustling about 50 feet away in the woods. They reported seeing a pair of red glowing eyes about eight feet high that watched them for about a minute, though no body outline was visible in the dark. The source of the eyes then turned and moved away through the woods making crashing sounds.

EyeshineFootstepsAnimal behaviour
Spring 1978 Auburn, Placer County, California Class B #3612

Two fishermen have truck shaken early one morning, outside of Auburn

The witness and a relative parked a heavy flatbed truck in a wooded area to sleep for a few hours before fishing at dawn. Around 5 a.m. something shook the truck violently side to side several times, waking both occupants. They smelled a strong rancid odor, saw nothing in the darkness, and stayed in the cab until daylight before leaving without checking for tracks.

Vehicle contactOdorPossible misidentification
1975–1976 Oceanside, California #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/YScIFc6KhOX9bnVSe-Zq_N8HMM1bxaBDF02R-yZwEzE

Sasquatch sighting near Oceanside, California (1975)

While living on a military base and walking a trail past eroded hillsides to the beach, the witness repeatedly smelled a strong odor and had small rocks tossed at the back of the carried board. The witness once saw the hairy backside of a large figure running into the hollows, and a friend who teased its speech and threw a rock was chased. Soon after, military police closed the area and the hillside was leveled.

Partial sightingOdorRock throwingVocalizationAnimal behaviour
August 1971 Strawberry, Tuolumne County, California Class B #1954

Brothers have strange experience above Strawberry

A group staying in a high-elevation pine forest reported repeated large footprints and strange nighttime sounds over an unspecified period. During one late-night episode, one person looking out from a shelter saw a large shape briefly enter moonlight and then leave. A very large size and long stride were reported for the shape and tracks.

TracksVocalizationAnimal behaviourPartial sighting
August 1966 Albion, Mendocino County, California Class A #8059

Teenagers have sighting of two creatures near Albion

In summer 1966, the witness and her older sister were talking in a parked car near a river in Albion in the evening while the rest of the family was on a nearby boat. Across the river they watched two large, hairy, bipedal animals chase a flock of about 50 sheep around a fenced pasture for 20-30 minutes. After dark they hid in the locked car overnight and reported the event to their parents in the morning, later learning several sheep had been killed with bellies and internal organs eaten.

Full-body sightingPossible misidentification
probably 10 years ago now Big Bend, California #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/05/07/sc-ep322-a-history-of-wild-men

Unidentified sound near Big Bend, California

After catching a large trout late in the day far downriver, the witness climbed the gorge in darkness and tried to find the road through brush. A large unseen presence to his left breathed deeply, walked through vegetation rather than around it, and paced him, stopping and moving with him. He broke his pole, was struck by a whipped branch, reached the road, ran to camp, and later saw brushed-down vegetation where he emerged.

Unidentified soundMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
when we were probably 16, 17 Big Bend, California #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2017/05/07/sc-ep322-a-history-of-wild-men

Movement only near Big Bend, California

Two teenagers with small-caliber rifles were walking back to their vehicle late at night after frog hunting around a brush-ringed pond. Something in the thick brush knocked vegetation aside and paced them, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. About thirty yards from the car they ran and drove off.

Movement onlyAnimal behaviour
Date unknown California #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/09/04/sc-ep142-retired-border-patrol-agent-speaks-out

Sasquatch sighting in California

An agent hiking detained individuals up a ridge at dusk heard brush breaking below and saw a large bipedal beast pushing through tall brush with its arms. The creature's head and shoulders were above six to eight foot brush. The agent and the group fled uphill until the creature was no longer visible.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour
Over 30 years ago Monterey, California #76b3f1e2-c7df-4f22-8bce-58413092223e

Sasquatch sighting near Monterey, California

A visitor from the UK went to a beach near Monterey to photograph sea otters at sundown. She watched six very large, hairy bipeds come around a cove, with a large male wading while others handled seaweed on the sand. After her camera gear clattered on rocks, the male approached and argued vocally with a female before threatening her, after which she lost consciousness.

Full-body sightingChatterScreamAnimal behaviour
Date unknown California #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/jPGGXITO10wwuJ_uj_0X3NYAQ037cSSRGqO1dXiWsio

Sasquatch sighting in California

The witness was working alone overnight operating noisy machinery at a mountain job site in the rain. He heard impacts on a metal container, then saw a dark upright figure by the trees that crept toward him as rocks were thrown. He fled to his car, struggled to open a locked gate, then faced a much larger red-eyed figure that snapped a branch, vocalized loudly, and bluff-charged. He escaped in his car with damage to the vehicle.

Full-body sightingEyeshineVocalizationGrowlHowl +4
A couple of years after that California #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/YScIFc6KhOX9bnVSe-Zq_N8HMM1bxaBDF02R-yZwEzE

Sasquatch sighting in California

The witness followed an older brother past a fence along fire breaks to hunt deer. When the brother left briefly chasing a buck, the witness heard a loud yell and had rocks land around and herd movement back to the fire break. The brother later said he had seen a big dark monster throwing rocks and had fled home separately.

Partial sightingScreamRock throwingAnimal behaviour
Date unknown California #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/02/16/sc-ep406-the-sasquatch-savant-theory

Sasquatch sighting in California

The witness took two daughters for an evening hike on a trail near home where large trees blocked the path. The youngest daughter froze after seeing movement, and the witness ran forward to see a large hairy human-like figure by a tree staring at them. After a tense standoff with rocking motion, the group backed away and returned to the car. The middle daughter had recorded video, and later visits found large bare footprints where the figures had been.

Full-body sightingTracksAnimal behaviour
like a week ago California #1d36b920-b347-4bd0-b43d-033af2fa518c

Vocalization in California

While sleeping in his van in Alabama Hills, the witness woke at 2:30 AM to bird-like sounds shifting to crickets, then a short wailing whistle. Something pressed against the van and shook it violently while he felt overwhelming dread, pressure, inability to move and hear. After it stopped he dressed, found no tracks, felt watched while leaving, and drove to a populated rest stop.

VocalizationWhistleUnidentified soundVehicle contactAnimal behaviour
through out the week Pinecrest, Tuolumne County, California Related account #868

Structure or nest near Pinecrest, California

During the week the group felt watched, noticed no wildlife, found small stacked rock piles that vanished overnight, and smelled a strong bad odor near the tent.

Structure or nestOdorAnimal behaviour
BFRO YEAR: 1994,1995 Pinecrest, Tuolumne County, California Class A #868

Campers have sighting above Pinecrest

A group camping with horses heard the horses startle something at dusk and then saw a huge brown figure about 6 feet tall running extremely fast across a meadow away from the horses in a cloud of dust. One tethered horse was so frightened it jumped over another horse. The witness concluded the figure could not have been a bear because of the sound it made and the way it ran.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundPossible misidentification
Date unknown Twain Harte, Tuolumne County, California Related account #7299

Animal behaviour near Twain Harte, California

When the strange noises occur, raccoons avoid the deck and dogs remain quiet as if sensing something present.

Animal behaviour
Date unknown Twain Harte, Tuolumne County, California Related account #7299

Animal behaviour near Twain Harte, California

The surviving dog acts scared and silent when hearing or smelling anything recalling that night.

Animal behaviour
years before Dunsmuir, Siskiyou County, California Related account #4630

Odor near Dunsmuir, California

Years earlier the witness and companions camping in the same area believed they were stalked, smelled an odor, and left without seeing anything.

OdorAnimal behaviour
at the end of the day Redding, Shasta County, California Related account #11986

Animal behaviour near Redding, California

The witness frequently felt watched and occasionally felt unexplained fear, especially when locking up alone after the last tour.

Animal behaviour