Search Reports
Counties in California with reports
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Santa Cruz County California (Class A) BFRO
Nighttime sighting by motorist near Mt. Madonna Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains
I saw one of these sasquatch-bigfoot things one night walking on the side of the highway. I want to say it was in the early fall of 1980, because my kids were very young. My husband and I were driving...
October 1980
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
Hunters hear late night screams in the Trinity Alps Wilderness
My dad, my cousin, his wife, and myself, along with six others went on a 10-day deer hunt in the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area. We had contracted with a local outfitter to meet us at the trailhead and ...
September 1980
Butte County California (Class A) BFRO
Sighting by bow hunter / motorist at 6:30 AM near Butte Creek
I was driving down into the campground area at about 6:30 am and I saw a large dark colored shapewalking in the willows along the creek. At first I thought it was a person, but it did not walk like a ...
August 1980
Mono County California (Class B) BFRO
Hikers find footprints, hear sounds, etc., near Leavitt Meadows
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August 1980
Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO
Man describes childhood incident, a possible approach at Seven Lakes
When I was a young boy, my father would take me backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains every summer. When I was 10 years old, my father decided I was strong enough for a long excursion in the wild...
May 1980
Los Angeles County California (Class A) BFRO
Man describes incident in teen years: Daylight encounter by two young men in the Green Valley area
First, as a matter of background, I want to tell a little about myself. It will help explain the delay in ever having reposted this incident. The sighting occurred about three months prior to my enter...
May 1980
Sonoma County California (Class A) BFRO
A Young Man, While Camping with 20 Others, Comes Face-to-face with Creature
This was at a youth camp. There were 20 kids all about 16 to 18 years in age. There were two dorms, one going out to the east and one going to the south, with a living area and kitchen in the middl...
April 1980
Kern County California (Class B) BFRO
Possible nighttime road crossing sighting by motorist near Lamont
My girlfriend (later became wife) and I were traveling on a rural road, Panama Road, e/b e/o Cottonwood Road, that connects the outskirts of Bakersfield, CA, to Lamont, CA, a small town 14 miles outsi...
February 1980
Tulare County California (Class B) BFRO
Hunters are awakened by loud, repetitive vocalizations in Monache Meadows
Around 1979-----Norm and I hunt the Monache Meadow area, we had camped at Summers Ridge that night. About 2:00 in the, morning, this loud howl of immense volume, coming from one the meadows, yes it di...
October 1979
Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO
Hunter/Logger has a sighting in a closed logging area near Hilt
: This sighting occurred quite some time ago, and I haven't told a lot of people. I was a logger for 15 years, in and around northern California, and I was a timber faller, probably 5 years out of tha...
October 1979
Siskiyou County California (Class B) BFRO
Son and step Father have a strange encounter on the north/east side of Mt.Shasta
First off, I am a very objective and reasonable person, this is true. In 1979, my father and I went camping in a remote spot on the summit of Mount Shasta, well away from anyone else. At approximately...
September 1979
Mendocino County California (Class B) BFRO
Hiker finds an “A†frame type of nest in the Mammoth Lakes area
I believe this event took place in the late 1970's to the very early 1980's. My best guess is 1978 or 1979. My father, mother, younger brother and I were camping in a State Park off of Highway 101, in...
September 1979
Tuolumne County California (Class A) BFRO
Girl has daytime sighting near Twain Harte
Around the age of 12 or 13 (I'm 34 now) I went with my parents to Sugerpine Campground in the Sonora/Twain Harte area in California. We were there for two weeks in our 21' travel trailer, and I was co...
August 1979
Shasta County California (Class B) BFRO
Couple Has Frightening Encounter Near Lake Shasta
This is an old report so I don't know if it will be of any use but my wife and I remember it as if it were yesterday. We had just moved to California from Colorado and didn't know anywhere to hike so ...
July 1979
Riverside County California (Class A) BFRO
Man remembers observing a large creature in a desert setting as he left his residence north of Palm Springs
Was going back to close shop at approx. 10PM in the northern desert above Palm Springs, CA., and saw a huge light tan colored biped with soft blowing hair .Because I was in a small VW bug with the lig...
May 1979
Del Norte County California (Class A) BFRO
While sitting around a campfire witnesses saw a set of red glowing eyes
About three hours after eating dinner I was sitting around a campfire with 3 friends and my husband.We were just sitting around the campfire and talking when we heard a loud crashing and rustling in t...
May 1979
Del Norte County California (Class A) BFRO
Vehicle passenger's daylight sighting near Hiouchi
I had a visual experience in 1979 in which I was camping about 20+ miles out of Hiouchi,CA in Del Norte County. I was traveling as a passenger with a local resident who was making a trip to Crescent C...
January 1979
Shasta County California (Class A) BFRO
Husband and wife have late night sighting on Highway 299
We saw "bigfoot" about 4 am in Shasta County, CA while driving on 299West. It was 1978 or 1979 and we were driving from Weaverville, CA to Idaho. Upon reaching Susanville, CA we had a hard time buying...
January 1979
Alpine County California (Class B) BFRO
Tracks found by vacationers
Only a set of tracks leading from a river into a crop of low trees. I did not follow them (being about 10 I was pretty scared). The tracks were large -- approx.18 inches and about 2 inches down in pac...
December 1978
Calaveras County California (Class B) BFRO
Teenager has a nighttime close encounter and then sees tracks in the snow in Avery
When I was in my early teens, my aunt was dating this fellow who lived in Avery, CA. He was an aspiring carpenter who was trying to build a cabin on his property. Though the main house was already com...
December 1978
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
Very large, black, human-looking sihouette seen
I and my former wife encountered three unusual events in a two year period, twice on horseback. [First two are detailed in a different report.] Thirdly, My former wife and a friend were riding ...
October 1978
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Hunters have strange night experiences near Groundhog Meadow
My son and I arrived at the horse corral near Groundhog Meadow late on a Friday night in early September 1978. We spent all Saturday building two deer blinds with the intent on coming back to the area...
September 1978
Tuolumne County California (Class A) BFRO
Three witnesses have daytime sighting near Strawberry
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 in...
July 1978
Nevada County California (Class A) BFRO
Family has unusual experience outside Grass Valley
One night in 1978, my 4 yr. old daughter and I, along with my boyfriend and his family were standing around a huge bon fire we had built. They lived on a ranch out in the country. It was dark about 9:...
June 1978
Placer County California (Class B) BFRO
Two fishermen have truck shaken early one morning, outside of Auburn
I went with my brother-in-law in the middle of the night, up to Alta Sierra, to sleep for a few hours, then start fishing right at dawn. We were in his flatbed truck that he used for his construction...
January 1978