10-Ft. Shrieking Monster reported near Cold Springs witnessed in Tuolumne County, California

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From the Union Democrat, Monday, January 28, 1963: REPORT: 10-FT. SHRIEKING MONSTER A horror tale of a 10-foot-tall man led sheriff's deputies last night into a dark brushy area adjoining Peter Pam subdivision, west of Cold Springs. Officers were unable to spot a monster but returned with an equally horrifying report of unidentified shrieking sounds. "There was definitely some creature in the woods," Deputy William Huntley confirmed. "I've never heard anything like it." Huntley's partner, Elbert Miller of Cold Springs, a veteran woodsman, agreed: "I've never heard a sound like that in all my years in the woods." The search was touched off by an anonymous telephone call to the sheriff's office about 8:30 p.m. The caller refused to give his name on grounds, "You'll think I'm crazy and put me in a strait jacket." He reported seeing a man - at least nine or 10 feet tall - in the road by an old gravel pit north of the Peter Pam tract. Huntley quoted the caller, "It was movi...