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Counties in California with reports
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Humboldt County California (Class B) BFRO
Prospector has possible morning encounter on east side of Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation
In 1978, I was alone and gold hunting up behind the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. I had to take a side trip across the mountain to avoid some heavy snow and brush. I found this trail that was going...
January 1978
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Witness reports loud screaming near Strawberry
A witness reported that at around 1:00 a.m., approximately two minutes of extremely loud screaming was heard. The scream appeared to less than 50 meters from the recreational cabins. The scream was lo...
October 1977
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
Series of footprints 17" in length
I and my former wife encountered three unusual events in a two year period, twice on horseback. The first was a series of foot prints ( one very clear that we photographed), on a trail near the Bar-71...
August 1977
Shasta County California (Class A) BFRO
Two Young Fishermen Have Mid-day Encounter at Lake Shasta
My family and I went to lake Shasta CA. To camp at antler camp ground. While we were there, we went to this cove on the lake and had a picnic. After the picnic, me and my cousin jimmy and my little si...
August 1977
El Dorado County California (Class B) BFRO
Family finds large footprints and hears strange sounds near Pollock Pines
Hello my name is Tracie Q., and I am 35 yrs. old. It has been over 25 years, back in the late seventy's, and my family and I can still remember, to this day, what we saw and heard during our motorcycl...
August 1977
Calaveras County California (Class B) BFRO
Hikers have late night experience near Spicer
As a new High School graduate in 1977, I planned a camping trip to an area near a boy scout camp (Wolfboro) I was familar with, with my new girl friend. As an Eagle scout and an athelete (I was recrui...
July 1977
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
Hiker see prints and hears sounds in the Trinity Alps
Heard what I thought was music and low voices coming from low hills on each side of creek. One low voice or sound on one side, then another on the opposide side of creek. I was cooking diiner with my ...
July 1977
Mono County California (Class A) BFRO
Brothers have early evening sighting near Lee Vining
This happened about 24 years ago, but it is still fresh in my mind (I guess you never really forget these type of experiences). It was late July of 1977. My family was up in the eastern Sierras, near ...
July 1977
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
A young man and friends had two consecutive night encounters with an unknown creature
In Feb. 1977, a friend, his two older brothers, and his younger cousin and I went backpacking in the Trinity Alps area near Shasta Ca. I was 17 at the time, and would regularly take time off from high...
February 1977
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Loud, High-pitched Animal Screams Heard Outside a Cabin Late at Night
After midnight, I heard more than a minute (possibly 2), a horrible, extremely loud screaming, unlike anything I've heard before or since. I was in a cabin getting ready for bed, but wide awake. Th...
January 1977
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Campers hear late night vocalizations at Carlon Station
It was January 1977, and Little Ruben Rios and Danny Mirales had talked Ruben Hernandez, my husband, into taking them snow camping. Ruben had the experience and the equipment, but was reluctant, becau...
January 1977
Mendocino County California (Class B) BFRO
Witness heard stomping and crashing of small trees.
Well, I think it was 1977. I was squatting in the woods out by a little lake road of Mendocino, California. I've spent most of my life in the woods of California or Maine. Even had resident pet black ...
January 1977
Siskiyou County California (Class B) BFRO
Campers have frightening experience in the Marble Mountains Wilderness
This was summer, 1977, and I lived in Arcata, California working as a volunteer Botanist for Six Rivers National Forest. I was helping out a graduate student at Humboldt State University with his Mast...
January 1977
Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO
Two men recall a nighttime face to face encounter on lonely Hwy. 395
NOTE: Please see the following included sections for elaboration of details. Two of us were driving home from a day of skiing at Mammoth Mountain California. The road was a two lane highway (opposite ...
December 1976
Los Angeles County California (Class B) BFRO
Possible tracks found in snow and mud on family property many years ago near Lake Hughes
On a day after the snow had fallen, we went hunting up in the Lake Hughes area in California. There were 4 of us hunting that day; my dad, and myself and 2 good buddies. Well, the deer hunting was not...
November 1976
Los Angeles County California (Class B) BFRO
Varmint hunter has a night encounter with a large animal
In 1976 while night hunting for bobcats on the fringe of the San Gabriel Wilderness Area I called in BF while using a dying rabbit call. I heard it scream so loud that the hair on the back of my neck ...
September 1976
Mono County California (Class B) BFRO
Campers hear a vocalization near Tenaya Lake
Some friends and I were camping in Yosemite Park in the fall of 1976. At about 10:00 P.M. we were in our sleeping bags in the tents talking when all the animal sounds going on around us suddenly went ...
September 1976
Los Angeles County California (Class A) BFRO
One of three incidents in a restricted area
This the first of three so-called sightings. Me and my fishin' buddy, Greg, were fishing the back side of Morris Dam, knockin' shi_ out of Smallmouth bass and an occasional huge trout or crappie. It's...
June 1976
San Bernardino County California (Class A) BFRO
Young man has a midnight face-to-face encounter with an unknown creature
I was living in Southern California at the time, I was 12yrs old, and was invited by my friends family to stay at a cabin with them at Big Bear lake for the weekend. We arrived before noon that Friday...
June 1976
Kern County California (Class A) BFRO
At noon, a young lady on horse back has a face-to-face encounter
I was about 14 years old riding a horse on a ranch that my family owned. The ranch location is Tehachapi, California. I was on a trail going towards the edge of the forest, still on our property. When...
January 1976
Mendocino County California (Class B) BFRO
Creature seen in the woods by hunter
I was deer hunting with some fireman friends and it was the end of the morning hunt, about 10 am, when Bob and I were watching 2 doe struggling to climb a shale cliff, as we heard a lot of noise down ...
January 1976
Del Norte County California (Class B) BFRO
Family sees prints near Crescent City
My family and I were heading up north to meet my grandparent for salmon fishing. My father was pulling our trailer and had to pull over for some reason. We all got out and we were told to stand away f...
September 1975
San Bernardino County California (Class A) BFRO
A scout troop's late night sighting at the edge of their camp. Multiple witnesses. Reporting witness now a law enforcement officer
I remember the day like if it was yesterday. It was my first Boy Scout Summer Camp and I was 12 years old. We had traveled from Long Beach, CA, on a Saturday, the day before the other troops where to ...
July 1975
Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO
Bigfoot sighted in Stony Lagoon south of Orick,Ca by two men camping who were so frightened they left in middle of night.
A friend and I were on our way to mouth of Klamath River area to fish on friends boat and pulled off hiway at ,Stony Lagoon, approx 3-4 mi So. of Orick, Ca. We went west over a small hill and down to ...
June 1975
Tehama County California (Class B) BFRO
Hikers see large print in Yolla Bolly Wilderness
Backpacking with my younger brother in Middle Eel Yolla Bolly wilderness, california. He was 16, I was 21. This is a very remote area. We had a great deal of difficilty getting there via rough log...
June 1975