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8 September 2007 North Of Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California Class A #25260

Nighttime sighting (in headlights) by law enforcement officer on patrol near Cloverdale

The witness, on patrol driving west on Highway 128 outside Cloverdale, first noticed movement and eye reflection in brush along a ravine. After backing up, the witness observed a tall, brown-furred bipedal figure walking away through overgrowth, pushing branches aside with its arm. The witness then stopped and listened for several minutes as slow crunching sounds receded toward a creek area.

Partial sightingEyeshineFootstepsAnimal behaviour
September 2001 Crescent City, Del Norte County, California Class A #3075

A young man observes a creature with a gorilla face

The son, riding as a passenger in a vehicle traveling alongside a river, reported seeing a large hairy animal squatting on a rock in the water appearing to drink with its hand. The father, who was driving, did not see the animal. The sighting was very brief, lasting only seconds, and was said to have occurred in the early afternoon.

Partial sightingAnimal behaviour
May 2001 Johnson, Humboldt County, California Class A #2755

While conducting sound survey project, two team members see Bigfoot

A team of four was conducting a nighttime sound survey from a clear-cut overlooking a river valley while one member did a live radio interview from a parked vehicle near the treeline. The interviewer heard repeated charging sounds, footfalls and a grunt-growl from dense brush a few feet away while two teammates uphill watched with a night-vision device. The uphill observers reported a huge 8-foot-plus figure about 25 feet away leaning side to side to look through the trees and moving its arms. The episode lasted about 30 minutes, followed later by a distant scream, and a next-day search found disturbed soil but no footprints.

Partial sightingFootstepsGrowlMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
July 2000 Ft. Jones, Siskiyou County, California Class A #2928

Eighteen campers find hut; videotape distressed bigfoot walking down mountain ridge

A large camping group found a hut-like structure made of snapped boughs and filmed it in detail. While examining the structure, a group member pointed out a distant figure moving along a ridge. The witness videotaped the figure for several minutes as it moved back and forth, gestured, and disappeared behind rocks.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteStructure or nestAnimal behaviour
August 1993 Bluff Creek, Del Norte County, California Class A #2954

A field researcher describes the events of his two week long solo backpacking trip in the Bluff Creek area

The witness was camped alone at the intersection of four logging roads in Northern California, tending a campfire late at night. He became aware of a pair of reflective eyes watching him from behind a bush about 70 feet away and watched them for over an hour as the fire died down until they disappeared. In the morning he found large foot-shaped flattened grass impressions leading to and from the spot behind the bush.

EyeshineTracksAnimal 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
BFRO YEAR: 1970 1990 Redding, Shasta County, California Class A #11496

Lady has two Northern California sightings, over a 20year period

While trolling for bass from a boat on a warm summer day with a companion and a dog, the witness watched a huge dark-haired biped walk to the water's edge and pull up what looked like a stick fish trap. The creature inspected the apparently empty trap, placed it back, then climbed a very steep slope effortlessly without looking toward the boat. The companion did not see the creature while the dog barked and howled throughout the several-minute observation from about 50 yards away.

Full-body sightingAnimal behaviour