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Sasquatch sighting near Inyo County (1871)
Teamsters camping by a lake reported a ghost-like naked figure stealing scraps and plunging into the water when spoken to or shot at. In fall 1871 men saw it clearly as a large hairy man eating scraps. Investigators later found a cave with rags, bones, and a dead naked man.
Old newspaper article (Titusville Morning Herald - Pennsylvania) about sightings near Orestimba Creek in the Diablo (Devil) Mountains
The supplied sections reference an 1871 newspaper article titled "The Wild Man - What is He?" No details of the claimed encounter itself are included in the supplied text. The follow-up notes clarify the reported location as near Oristemba Creek south of Antioch.
Sasquatch sighting in California
A trail camera set for drug-trafficking surveillance far back in the forest was found ripped off its tree. The short video appears to show a bipedal animal deliberately covering the camera with handfuls of leaves. The officer who retrieved it did not know what to make of it but said it was not a bear.
Wood knock in California
On a first visit to the film site with a friend, the witness found a fresh three-rock stack with wet sand. While the friend set up video, a loud wood knock was heard. Looking under riverside growth, the witness got brief glimpses of something moving along the hillside.
Sasquatch sighting near Long Beach, California
Two small girls awoke to find an ape-like intruder in their bedroom and screamed. Their father rushed in in time to see a huge shaggy figure climbing out the window and escaping. Nothing was reported stolen.
Sasquatch sighting near Redding, California
A family was frightened by a naked long-haired wild man roaming near their home. A stone fell near a playing child, who looked up to see the figure beckoning and making sounds. The child ran inside to his mother.
Sasquatch sighting near Eureka, California
A resident fired into brush thinking it was a bear, and a wild man-like figure came out on all fours toward his wife. He fired again and it fled. That night it tried to force the door and window until shot at again, and the family left.
Sasquatch sighting near Rumsey, California
Two men camped in a valley found man-like tracks and followed them to a ravine. They watched a large hairy creature beating its chest, displaying strength by throwing a huge rock, near a foul cave with bones. They left without approaching.
Tracks near Rumsey, California
A trapper following a drag trail found a partly eaten heifer covered with brush and large clawed tracks. That night his dogs hid in fear while unearthly screams moved away from his cabin. He sought help to hunt the animal.
Sasquatch sighting near San Diego County
Two hunters entered an isolated canyon noted for murders and saw a large hairy biped moving upright. After it turned to show a human-like face, they shot it. They then found a dug cave containing human bones and animal remains.
Sasquatch sighting in California
Two prospectors were separated when one heard a whistle and saw a hair-covered man-like figure on a boulder. He aimed his gun and spoke to it in several languages without reply. It stopped as if recognizing danger, then fled over a hill.
Sasquatch sighting in California
An old hunter camped for several days found his fire scattered. He hid and watched two hairy bipeds visit the camp and play with burning sticks. They whistled, scattered the fire, then left together.
Unidentified sound near Big Bend, California
After catching a large trout late in the day far downriver, the witness climbed the gorge in darkness and tried to find the road through brush. A large unseen presence to his left breathed deeply, walked through vegetation rather than around it, and paced him, stopping and moving with him. He broke his pole, was struck by a whipped branch, reached the road, ran to camp, and later saw brushed-down vegetation where he emerged.
Movement only near Big Bend, California
Two teenagers with small-caliber rifles were walking back to their vehicle late at night after frog hunting around a brush-ringed pond. Something in the thick brush knocked vegetation aside and paced them, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. About thirty yards from the car they ran and drove off.
Sasquatch sighting in California
An agent hiking detained individuals up a ridge at dusk heard brush breaking below and saw a large bipedal beast pushing through tall brush with its arms. The creature's head and shoulders were above six to eight foot brush. The agent and the group fled uphill until the creature was no longer visible.
Tracks in California
The witness met a group of land-management environmental workers on the mountaintop who said they believed three Sasquatch-type creatures were in the area. They described the group as two adults and a juvenile based on track finds including very small and very large prints.
Sasquatch sighting in California
While road hunting with family in a truck, the caller saw a creature standing beside the road behind a tree, holding the top bent over to look at them. They made eye contact for three to five seconds. When he looked away and back it was gone, the tree was swinging, and he glimpsed it moving downhill on all fours. After this he quit hunting.
Scream in California
After sitting down in a tree stand, the hunter heard an intense low roar from behind that he could not see because of tree limbs. About fifteen minutes later a second similar roar came from the front left. He waited about an hour before leaving for his vehicle and never used a tree stand again.
Growl in California
While using a hilltop drive tactic to move deer toward waiting hunters, the caller was growled at. No creature was seen in this incident. It was one of several experiences in the same small hunting zone.
Sasquatch sighting near Bartell, California
The witness was driving alone on a highway in the morning and noticed what looked like a backpacker with hiking poles on the shoulder. The figure crossed the road in a few long strides with odd bobbing motion, and sunlight revealed a wide-shouldered, dark-coated biped with no pack. The witness drove to the crossing point but could no longer see it in the thinned forest.