Tuolumne County, California

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Tuolumne County California (Class A) BFRO

July 1978

I'm writing this with some hesitation as I'm still not sure what, if anything, I saw but, having read varying reports of similar occurences in the area I'm about to describe, I thought you might be interested. I hesitate because for many years now I've attributed what I saw to an often-active imagination and "trick" of light. Let me explain. When I was approx. 11 or 12 years old (1978 or '79)I was walking through the woods with my younger brother and friend behind the California Dept of Fish and Game patrol cabin across from the Boulder Flats camp ground, Hwy 108 in Tuolumne County about 50 miles or so east of Sonora. My father is a retired DFG patrol captain and we'd vacation there several times a year. All we were doing was walking through the woods several hundred yards from the cabin when we saw what looked like a conical-shaped head, brown in color with deep set eyes peering at us from behind a tree approx.100-120 feet away slightly uphill from where we were standing. That's a...

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Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

Campers hear strange vocalizations for over an hour while camping outside Dorrington

Okay, I just spent about ten or fifteen minutes listening to the various sounds and recordings that you have to try to help me identify what we heard. I cannot say that any of the recordings sounded j...

July 2008

Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

Son and father hear possible sasquatch vocalizations in the Emigrant Wilderness

I was camping with my dad at Bear Lake in Emigrant National Wilderness. I had just woken up from a loud strange sound, I put my boots on and got out of the tent and heard a very loud howling noise com...

August 2007

Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

Possible road-crossing sighting in daylight near Strawberry

I was up off old strawberry road on sunday afternoon about 4pm. Take left before you get to strawberry proper off 108. I was getting the dogs out of the truck. Its a one lane old road, there was a tur...

March 2007

Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

Possible vocalizations heard by resident near Twain Harte

I was just about to go to bed for the night when I took my dog outside for a quick walk. The area around my house is very densely wooded and my backyard is so forested that it's hard to see in the dar...

November 2006