Gold Prospector Describes Bigfoot Family Encounter in Remote Canyon

# California Gold Prospector Shares Jaw-Dropping Multi-Generational Encounter in Recent Creek Devil Interview Came across a fascinating episode over on the Creek Devil YouTube channel hosted by William Jevning, a two-time witness and field researcher with over four decades of experience in the field. The guest for this particular interview is a gentleman named Clifford from Stockton, California, who has been visiting a particular canyon since the 1970s, originally with his family chasing gold. After being sick for a long time, he got the bug again from watching some YouTube videos about prospecting and started heading up there every weekend for eight years straight. That's dedication. The canyon he's describing is in the heart of Gold Country, near Jackson and Angels Camp in Calaveras County, an area absolutely steeped in rich history and, apparently, some pretty active Sasquatch activity. Clifford mentions the Butte fire, which was a real wildfire that started in Jackson back in 2015 and threatened the area. He was out there during the fire, with ash falling and the sun turned red, still working his claim. That's the kind of determination that would make any prospector proud. But here's where things get really interesting. While he was in the middle of the stream one day, classifying material and chasing a gold streak he'd been following for about a month, he caught a whiff of something that stopped him dead in his tracks. He describes it as "super bad BO," like a garbage can that's been sitting in the sun. Just one whiff, and the hair on his arms stood straight up. The really intriguing part? He had his camera rolling at the time. The footage apparently didn't capture anything visible, but the audio and his reaction tell the story. Now, the encounter that really got my attention happened on another visit. Clifford was walking along the canyon and spotted what he describes as two juveniles laying on the ground on the other side of the river. They were skinny and taller than him, though he couldn't tell exactly how tall because they were on the ground. One of them was holding a baby that had hardly any hair on it, looking like it had just been born. The hair was described as wet-looking, with little streaks, similar to how hair looks on a bald person. The one holding the baby appeared to be nursing it, and Clifford noticed the belly had hair where a person wouldn't and was bald where a person would. He thought he saw a breast, suggesting this was a mother nursing her young. Then, to his right, he saw movement. A massive gray one, which he estimates was enormous, reached forward in a motion similar to grabbing paddles in a rowboat. In an instant, the group of three on the ground shot to the right. The large gray one had grabbed them by the ankles and literally drug them across the bushes, rocks, and weeds right out of his sight. He describes this larger one as possibly a grandmother figure protecting the family. To his left, there was a tangle of black ones, maybe seven individuals total. And off in the background stood a tall brown one. The way they disappeared so quickly, dragging everything with them, left Clifford with this strange feeling of having walked in on something he wasn't supposed to see, like jumping into a cold pool. Yet somehow, he was able to blank it out of his mind and keep going back. On yet another occasion, while chasing a monarch butterfly across the river in November, he came across three different things moving in three different areas simultaneously. The butterfly led him right up against the canyon wall where the vegetation was thick with willows, scrub oak, and blackberries. What strikes me most about Clifford's account is the family dynamic he describes. Multiple witnesses over the years have reported seeing what appear to be family groups, with protective adults shielding juveniles and infants from human observation. The behavior of the larger gray one grabbing the young by the ankles and moving them quickly out of sight is consistent with the protective behaviors reported by other researchers and witnesses. The nursing mother and newborn also align with reports of Sasquatch having family structures similar to humans, though they are certainly their own distinct beings. The smell he describes is also worth noting. That strong, musky odor is one of the most commonly reported indicators of Sasquatch presence, often described as similar to a wet dog, garbage, or a skunk-like smell that hits you all at once. Many witnesses say the smell hits before any visual confirmation, which is exactly what Clifford experienced. Clifford also mentions that Bigfoot has apparently been trying to prevent Jevning from publishing his new book, "Bigfoot Survival Guide," available on Amazon. Whether you believe in that kind of high strangeness or not, it's an interesting detail that adds to the lore. This is definitely an interview worth checking out over on the Creek Devil channel. Clifford's calm, matter-of-fact delivery and the level of detail he provides make his account particularly compelling. The fact that he had a camera rolling during the smell encounter is intriguing, and one has to wonder what might have been captured on that footage.