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Date unknown California #6628122d-b080-4f0c-bcc1-0ebc04d663f0

Sasquatch sighting in California

Two men hunting in the area drove back toward camp at night. Their headlights revealed a large figure crouched beside the road. It stood to full height and crossed to the trees in two steps, described as a giant hairy ape.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
long after the Bigfoot sighting, when I was in my 20s California #4fe401c0-89f2-4ce5-83e1-959fc59316b0

UFO sighting in California

While visiting cousins in Southern California, six people were in a backyard at night when they saw a long, candy-bar-shaped metallic craft with a flat bottom hovering for about 10 minutes. It had no lights, rivets, or smoke. It then departed almost instantly like warp drive with no plume, terrifying the group.

Full-body sighting
when we were 16, 17 years old Placerville, California #4fe401c0-89f2-4ce5-83e1-959fc59316b0

UFO sighting near Placerville, California

When the guest was 16 or 17, he was with about 20 people partying on a friend's flat roof late at night. They watched a light moving like a satellite that stopped, changed direction, bounced around the sky, then accelerated away much faster. About 10 to 15 minutes later three dark, quiet, unmarked helicopters flew low over the house toward the light's direction.

Full-body sighting
right after the Bigfoot sighting Placerville, California #4fe401c0-89f2-4ce5-83e1-959fc59316b0

UFO sighting near Placerville, California

On another evening around the same period, the guest stood in his driveway and heard a noise, then saw a yellowish glow moving through trees behind the house. The glow lit trees behind it as well and appeared about 20 feet off the ground, unlike a flashlight. He watched it float through the trees for two to three minutes until it left view.

Partial sighting
probably a week maybe after this [the Bigfoot sighting] Placerville, California #4fe401c0-89f2-4ce5-83e1-959fc59316b0

UFO sighting near Placerville, California

About a week after the roadside sighting, the guest sat alone on his back porch at night and noticed a growing blue glow. He peeked around the house and saw a self-emitting blue ball about softball to grapefruit size floating across the driveway. It moved down the driveway with a walking-like bobbing motion, crossed to the neighbor's property, and faded into trees.

Full-body sighting
eight or nine months later Corona, California #75d3826b-0a64-49b3-b8f8-3f94e0da45ac

Sasquatch sighting near Corona, California

Months later the witness returned alone on a four-wheeler to explore a gated switchback road he had been warned away from. He hiked through an oak ravine to look at old trailers, then felt watched as the woods went silent. He saw a tall black creature camouflaged between a boulder and tree staring at him, fled to his machine, and crashed through brush piled across the trail on his way out.

Full-body sighting
when night lights came out California #c9c38c8d-cfd7-4059-a356-154d960d2baf

Eyeshine in California

While trying out night-riding lights on a fire road, the witness reached a turnoff toward his house and saw about six sets of eyes at different heights watching him. He assumed animals like cats, turned around, and left the area without further investigation.

Eyeshine
A short time after this sighting Eureka, California #c9c38c8d-cfd7-4059-a356-154d960d2baf

Sasquatch sighting near Eureka, California

The witness had placed trash cans under his bedroom window after finding trash strewn near the woods. One night he woke to rattling, saw a cone-headed form at the cans, and watched it spin, drop to all fours, and sprint across the roughly 50-yard yard into dense rainforest-like brush at remarkable speed. At the time he dismissed it as a bear, but later interpreted the long arms and quadrupedal run as Sasquatch-like.

Partial sightingProperty disturbance
BFRO YEAR: 1994,1995 Pinecrest, Tuolumne County, California Class A #868

Campers have sighting above Pinecrest

A group camping with horses heard the horses startle something at dusk and then saw a huge brown figure about 6 feet tall running extremely fast across a meadow away from the horses in a cloud of dust. One tethered horse was so frightened it jumped over another horse. The witness concluded the figure could not have been a bear because of the sound it made and the way it ran.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundPossible misidentification
BFRO YEAR: 1978/79 Twain Harte, Tuolumne County, California Class A #1090

Girl has daytime sighting near Twain Harte

At about age 12-13 the witness returned alone to a stream and rock in dense woods behind the campground. From about 15 feet away she saw a long dark-haired arm with long fingers wrapped around a pine beside the trail, then a flat dark face peer out and make eye contact. She fled past the tree back to the family trailer and stayed there for the rest of the vacation without telling her parents at the time.

Partial sighting
BFRO YEAR: 1987-88 Tulare County, California Class A #2794

Woman has early evening sighting near Kennedy Meadows

While driving on a dirt road toward a campsite near Kennedy Meadows at dusk, the witness saw a large, hairy figure running among Joshua trees about 100 yards away. The figure moved north on two legs and then disappeared from view when the witness looked again after speaking to a passenger. The witness continued to the campsite and told the rest of the group about the sighting.

Full-body sighting
BFRO YEAR: 1968 or 69 Payne's Creek, Tehama County, California Class A #849

Girl has daytime sighting near Payne's Creek

While walking with two companions in the woods on a hunting trip, the witness saw a tall dark-brown hair-covered figure come down a hill, cross a creek in one step, and disappear into trees. The companions did not see it. A relative hunting on the other side of the creek heard loud heavy breathing around the same time, and the witness later felt the figure matched televised Bigfoot footage.

Full-body sighting
BFRO YEAR: 72-73 Corning, California North//paskenta Nw, Tehama County, California Class A #7731

Hunting Partners Have Early Morning Roadway Sighting

Early one morning in 1972 or 1973 the witness rode with a relative toward a hunting area when headlights revealed an animal leaving an orchard and crossing the road on all fours. The animal turned its head toward the vehicle, showing teeth, then went into a ditch, stood upright and stepped over a fence before disappearing from view. The relative acknowledged an animal crossing but did not see the upright movement and later did not recall the event.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingEyeshineOdor
BFRO YEAR: late 70's Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, California Class B #13839

Possible vocals heard by family camping near Happy Camp

A family camping in a primitive riverside area heard an extremely loud, shrill scream from near their trash area about 50 yards away after paper bags flared up the campfire. The sound moved rapidly downriver for several minutes, fading to a deep growl, while the adult dogs whimpered and the family became terrified. The father packed up camp that night and drove the family home, and the family later felt the sound matched a purported Sasquatch vocalization heard on television.

ScreamGrowl
BFRO YEAR: 1973-74 Redding, Ca, Because French Gulch Was A Town Back In The Gold Rush Days Of Old California. People Still Live In The Area Of What Is Now Called French Gulch., Shasta County, California Class B #26381

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.

SilhouetteEyeshineOdorProperty disturbanceVocalization +3
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
BFRO YEAR: 1978 or 79 Redding, Shasta County, California Class A #1653

Husband and wife have late night sighting on Highway 299

The witness and husband were driving west at night when a tan-colored figure entered the headlights from the left. It crossed the roadway in two strides and went into a ravine on the right within a few seconds. Both occupants perceived the figure and confirmed it to each other after the crossing.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
BFRO YEAR: 1987-89 Manton, Shasta County, California Class B #69291

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.

Howl
BFRO YEAR: 1997-98 La Porte, Plumas County, California Class B #2037

Man has interesting experiences outside of La Porte

During extended thesis fieldwork in remote mountain country, the witness found a set of human-like footprints in fine silt on a meander of Upper Slate Creek, noting dermal ridges, five even-length toes, a square shape and no instep, with a 20-inch stride noted in follow-up. Three pieces of mottled brown feces with a faint odor were found with the prints. No creature was seen and no other person was present for this find.

TracksScatOdor
BFRO YEAR: 93/95 GREENFIELD, Monterey County, California Class A #7334

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.

Full-body sightingFootsteps