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Sasquatch sighting
While driving on the driveway a companion saw a dark face with deep-set eyes and shaggy head behind a tree, after which the witness heard bipedal footsteps receding through leaves.
Scream
The witness stopped a motorcycle at night at an overlook and heard loud approaching screams before leaving quickly.
Whistle near Aptos, California
The witness reports hearing whistle and wood-on-wood sounds and feeling watched during later camping trips in the same area.
Growl near Yucaipa, California
On the first night the witness heard a loud awful sound three times and bipedal footsteps in leaves, then made a cat-fight sound and heard the steps leave the yard.
Unidentified sound near Mt. Baldly - Manker Flats Campground, California
Earlier the same night the witness group heard extended coyote howling including one long howl that seemed out of place.
Howl
A week or two earlier the witness and a friend heard similar distant vocalizations and an unfamiliar bullfrog-like sound that did not last long.
Scream
The witness stopped to check a topographic map and heard a modulated guttural scream without seeing the source in open forest.
Footsteps near Plumas County
The witness heard soft, careful footsteps moving through camp early in the morning the night before the screams, with no one else reportedly up.
Footsteps
Late Saturday night the witness and a companion heard something pacing back and forth in the marsh beside the camp for about an hour and a half.
Sasquatch sighting
Halfway through a later fire season, the witness and a coworker chased what they thought was a turkey in the trash area and saw only the upper body of a fast-moving creature with a turtle-shaped head going down a slope.
Daytime sightings by Forest Service employee near Arroyo Seco
The witness stopped to rest during an early-morning fitness run near a lake area when he heard movement on a shaded, brush-covered hillside. About 20 feet away he saw a roughly 8-foot-tall upright figure that turned its upper body to stare at him before walking quickly uphill and out of sight. Shade prevented him from seeing facial details. He returned to the station convinced the figure was not human.
Tree break near Malakoff Historical State Park Campgrounds, California
On the group's first night at the same campsite, they heard several distant tree breaks they dismissed as regular forest noises.
Tracks
Over about a decade the household reported additional visits involving footprints, screams, and smells, sometimes multiple in one summer.
Unidentified sound near Lee Vining, California
Several days later the witness with relatives heard debris falling down the canyon wall at night.
Howl
About 30 years earlier in Southern California the same witness heard a similar howl and felt watched.
Whoop
The witness and another household member previously woke at night to unexplained whooping sounds outside the house.
Footsteps
On the prior night at a tent site deeper in the bush, the witness and companion heard loud circling footsteps breaking branches, shouted warnings, fired rifle rounds, then fled on foot to a highway ditch until morning.
Whistle
The witness and relatives heard a low steady whistle lasting several seconds at a time for 15-20 minutes on more than one night that summer, during which other animal sounds stopped.
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.
Possible growling at hikers near the San Gabriel Wilderness
About 15 years before reporting, the witness and a friend paused at a saddle near Smith Mountain while hiking. They heard a very low growl/snuffling sound from tall bushes nearby that they could not see through. Frightened, they left quickly without investigating, and the witness later wondered about the source after seeing nearby reports.