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Footsteps
The witness notes having had many bears walk around their tent in the Thousand Lakes Wilderness Area.
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.
Scream
Another person parked to observe, experienced silence then crashing, then screams from multiple locations with rocks and pine cones thrown, one striking the truck window.
Whoop
Another person stopped to photograph old equipment and over an hour heard hoots and screams, breaking limbs and thrown rocks from two directions before leaving.
Vocalization
The witness recalled an earlier visit with a parent to woods north of town, feeling watched and hearing eerie sounds.
Possible "Ohio howls" south of Shingletown (midway between Redding and Lassen)
While living at Manton from 1987-1989, the witness's family repeatedly heard strange howls in the evening 2-3 times a week. The sound was thought at the time to come from the cleared swath up the hill along the penstock or powerlines. Years later the witness and family heard the Ohio howl recording and judged it exactly the same sound.
Footsteps near Viola, California
The witness rigged a fishing-line tripwire to his trailer door and later heard the stick strike and break as something moved between the trailer and tent.
Howl near Viola, California
On a morning fishing trip the witness, his spouse and his adult son heard about ten loud yells or howls coming from multiple sides of the lake.
Unidentified sound
The witness mentions having heard the same strange noise on a previous occasion.
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.