Search results
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.
Footsteps near Not Sure., California
A relative reported hearing heavy footsteps, heavy breathing and grunting along the shore near the grounded houseboat before dawn.
Footsteps
The witness notes having had many bears walk around their tent in the Thousand Lakes Wilderness Area.
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.
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.
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.
Footsteps near Idyllwild, California
A family camped next to the ravine told the witness they heard footsteps the night before the main event but nothing that night.
Footsteps near Idyllwild, California
A companion camping with the witness heard footsteps around his tent at about 4am.
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.
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.
Footsteps
That night the group was awakened in their tents by sounds of bipedal walking moving through camp, pausing when they talked and resuming when they quieted.
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.
Footsteps near Not Sure. Very Small Towns., California
During the night a relative heard tramping and movement outside his car and woke the witness.
Footsteps
While hiking toward Fleming Lake earlier, the party heard something moving through thick brush in the ravine below, breaking branches, which a companion thought was a bear.
Footsteps
The night before the treetop sighting, the witness and companion heard wading-like sloshing steps in the river near the tent, then found nothing when searching with a light.
Footsteps
On a prior night at Dark Lake with a relative, the witness heard footsteps around camp and wood knocking all night.
Unidentified sound
The witness and a companion camped by a nearby river and heard rock sounds and heavy footsteps and saw slide-like marks on the bank.