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Hunting Partners Have Early Morning Roadway Sighting
Early one morning in 1972 or 1973 the witness rode with a relative toward a hunting area when headlights revealed an animal leaving an orchard and crossing the road on all fours. The animal turned its head toward the vehicle, showing teeth, then went into a ditch, stood upright and stepped over a fence before disappearing from view. The relative acknowledged an animal crossing but did not see the upright movement and later did not recall the event.
Door or window contact near Old Northern California Mining Camp,, California
Around four in the morning something banged on the trailer, and when the witness went outside all body hair stood up before fleeing inside to the strong garbage-like smell.
Odor near Old Northern California Mining Camp,, California
A strong wet-garbage odor appeared suddenly in the yard and house repeatedly from spring through fall, sometimes waking the witness gagging.
Odor near Yreka, California
About a week earlier the witness sat outside around midnight and noticed a faint but pungent odor like skunk, rotting carcass and dirty wet dog drifting from the west up the hill.
Tracks near Hilt, California
While working in the same woods before the sighting, the witness found large human-like tracks in wet mud, a foul odor, and very large fresh scat.
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.
Odor near Redding, California
The witness occasionally noticed a strong death-like smell coming down off the mountain.
Man recalls adversarial encounter with an unknown creature near French Gulch
During midnight rounds at an isolated school compound, the witness crossed a suspension bridge and heard something raiding trash cans by the cookhouse. He threw rocks toward a large dark figure under the eaves, which stood erect, stepped onto the bridge, dodged thrown rocks, vaulted the bridge cables and fled upstream on two legs. He noted glowing eyes and a foul stench, then returned to his trailer without anyone else responding.
Scream near Round Mountain, California
The witness and partner heard intermittent screaming above camp for about half an hour and later heard something lifting and dropping their ATV trailer before it moved uphill.
Movement only
Another person in mountainous timber heard downhill crashing, then thrown debris, grunts and screams, later calls from multiple directions and a heavy brush clump landing in the truck bed.
Odor
A very pungent odor like rotting garbage was reported in connection with the experiences.
Sasquatch sighting
A man out for a late-night stroll smelled rotting garbage, felt watched, and saw an eight-foot fur-covered creature with no bearlike snout.
Odor
On three separate hikes in trailless brush and talus slopes the witness smelled a strong human feces odor.
Man has interesting experiences outside of La Porte
During extended thesis fieldwork in remote mountain country, the witness found a set of human-like footprints in fine silt on a meander of Upper Slate Creek, noting dermal ridges, five even-length toes, a square shape and no instep, with a 20-inch stride noted in follow-up. Three pieces of mottled brown feces with a faint odor were found with the prints. No creature was seen and no other person was present for this find.
Sasquatch sighting
Another local reported livestock acting up and seeing a figure mistaken for a person that ran into the woods with a stench.
Tracks
Over about a decade the household reported additional visits involving footprints, screams, and smells, sometimes multiple in one summer.
Footsteps near Pope Valley, California
A relative heard footsteps in gravel in the evening, encountered something that fled, leaving a musty skunk-like odor that lingered.
Odor
After following the trackways to the ridge top, the group encountered an overpowering zoo-like smell from a thickly wooded canyon and would not enter it.
Odor
The witness exploring down the creek to a pooled area smelled sulphur or rotting odor and ran back up the mountain.
Wood knock
About a year later the same couple returned to Highway 128, made whoop calls, then heard wood knocks and tree breaks and smelled a dead animal/skunk odor for about three minutes.