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a week later Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, California Related account #15855

Tracks near Mammoth Lakes, California

The witness returned a week later and found large heavy tracks going up the hill.

Tracks
within the last 5 years Place not stated Related account #4182

Structure or nest

The witness later found an A-frame stick shelter off trail in the Sierras with no sign of human use.

Structure or nest
Date unknown Bass Lake Ca., Madera County, California Related account #83

Tracks near Bass Lake Ca., California

The witness reported continuing to find long narrow five-toed footprints in the area.

Tracks
Monday 9/4/06 Place not stated Related account #15782

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.

Wood knockTree breakOdor
last year Place not stated Related account #5294

Tracks

The witness had seen similar tracks the previous year in a different national forest.

Tracks
this past week end Weldon, Kern County, California Related account #9426

Tracks near Weldon, California

The witness reported finding pinion pines with tops broken off, prints with and without claws, and many scat piles on a recent weekend outing.

TracksScatTree break
a couple of mornings later Humboldt County, California Related account #2142

Scat near Humboldt County

A couple of mornings after the night pursuit the group found a very large scat pile near a tent on the hillside above camp.

Scat
as we were driving out of our campsite en route home Place not stated Related account #3798

Twist

While driving out of camp the witness noticed an older violently twisted tree at 9-10 ft that continued to grow and photographed it.

Twist
Over the Labor Day weekend that same year (31 August to 2 September) Place not stated Related account #3798

Tree break

North of the second site near the creek the witness and spouse found more tree breaks and a huge pile of dried feces with seeds and berries unlike local bear scat.

Tree breakScat
Later that day Place not stated Related account #3798

Tree break

Later the same day the witness found a 50-70 meter stretch with over 15 trees broken off 4-8 ft up and photographed them.

Tree break
BFRO YEAR: '96 Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California Class B #3798

Three people looking for Sasquatch sign, while camping in the Bluff Creek area of California

During a July 1996 daytime search near Bluff Creek, the witness crossed to a glade and found a small cedar with its top freshly twisted off several feet up. The break and stripped bark looked moist and recent, and the detached top lay at the base. The witness photographed the tree and carried the top back to camp.

Tree breakTwist
earlier that day Place not stated Related account #13362

Tree break

Earlier that day the witness noticed bark picked off a tree, thought not bear-made.

Tree break
earlier that day Place not stated Related account #13362

Structure or nest

Earlier that day the witness found very large branches torn from distant trees and laid across trails near the camp.

Structure or nestTree break
Saturday, Nevember 22 Place not stated Related account #7452

Tracks

During a later day-hike, the witness noticed a possible partial large human-like footprint in clay but found no other prints to confirm it.

Tracks
one year later Huntington Lake, Fresno County, California Related account #9296

Tracks near Huntington Lake, California

The witness returned to the same general area one year later with his kids and found about four large footprints with a four-foot gait.

Tracks
about a year or two apart Place not stated Related account #4790

Tracks

On a later dirt-bike outing in snow near a ranger station, the same family found a huge human-looking print with only one big toe.

Tracks
BFRO YEAR: 1976-77 Pollock Pines, El Dorado County, California Class B #4790

Family finds large footprints and hears strange sounds near Pollock Pines

During a family walk on a mountain logging trail in the late 1970s, the group heard branches breaking around them. Near a recently fallen tree they found a wet blood-like substance on the log and a very large fresh human-like footprint that dwarfed an adult man's boot. The group quickly left the area and returned toward the cabin.

TracksUnidentified sound
The next year Place not stated Related account #3822

Tracks

The following year the witness found very large human-like tracks with only four toes but was unsure if they were related.

Tracks
Two days before Place not stated Related account #6130

Scat

Two days earlier the witness and a relative found unusually large dry scat while hiking out of a remote canyon toward a trail.

Scat
about 12 years earlier Place not stated Related account #11656

Vocalization

About 12 years earlier the witness and a relative were deer hunting at daybreak when a strange-acting deer approached, they shot it, then heard a loud roar-growl turning into a scream, with branches breaking and limbs and large rocks thrown toward them until they abandoned the kill and left.

VocalizationGrowlScreamTree breakRock throwing +1