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Santa Barbara County California (Class B) BFRO
Boar hunters find fresh footprints north of Lake Cachuma
I was hunting with a friend for wild boar in the Los Padres National Forest near Lake Cachuma, Ca. The lake runs on sort of an angle from west/northwest to east/southeast. Just above the lake when tra...
January 1975
Los Angeles County California (Class A) BFRO
Two young men have a face to face encounter
I have to much information to list. I have a video tape please contact me. ...
October 1974
Mendocino County California (Class A) BFRO
Hunter has daytime sighting near Dos Rios
I was deer hunting in Mendocino County in Northern California near Dos Rios close by to Covelo where there have been continual sightings. I was walking down canyon and noticed a human walking about...
September 1974
Modoc County California (Class A) BFRO
Man has sighting near Alturas
In 1974, I purchased an arce of land in northern CA in a place called California Pines, a very remote area bordered on 3 sides by a national forest (Modoc Nat. Forest). To get to the property, which w...
July 1974
Monterey County California (Class A) BFRO
Two teenage girls have daytime encounter on Big Sur Coast
I was camping with my friend and her family in Big Sur California. It was 1974. My friend Sylvia and I were sitting on the sand near the beach. I looked up at the cliffs and I saw something big and bl...
April 1974
Shasta County California (Class B) BFRO
Man recalls adversarial encounter with an unknown creature near French Gulch
I never thought I would write this sort of thing on this forum, but well...here goes. Way before I joined the Church, my young wife and I worked for a private school at the end of the road near French...
January 1974
San Luis Obispo County California (Class A) BFRO
Motorists encounter unusual creature on Highway 46 near Paso Robles, CA
During the summer of 1974 my sister in law I am were on our way from Lompoc, California to see our respective grandmothers. My sister in law's grandmother lived in Buttonwillow which is in Kern County...
January 1974
Tehama County California (Class A) BFRO
Hunting Partners Have Early Morning Roadway Sighting
Well, this was many-many years ago and I've actually been very reluctant to even mention this, but after reading your web site, and seeing various reports on the t.v. / and documentaries, has made me ...
October 1973
Fresno County California (Class B) BFRO
Two campers find a 17 inch footprint near their camp
The late Vanwedigen and I were going fishing along the river over the Labor Day weekend. While back packing in along the forestry trail leading down to the river, we missed a trail marker and wound up...
September 1973
Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO
Hiking boy has close encounter in High Sierra
I do not know whom to contact but I have a story to tell. My name is J. C. and I am a 41 year old Vice President of a bank. I have been harboring an encounter I had for 31 years secretly out of fear o...
September 1972
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
Papoose Lake in the Trinity Alps Primitive Area
A tremendous storm came in off the Pacific. My friend and I took shelter in a plastic "tube tent". About Midnight we heard a large animal walking around our camp. The animal had two legs, not 4. The a...
July 1972
Mariposa County California (Class B) BFRO
Possible BF-related incidents around a home near Guadalupe Pass
I was a girl. I think it was 1969-70 and I was 10-11 years old. I was sick and sleeping on the couch in the living room. I heard our dog whining. He never whined. No stranger let alone an animal could...
January 1972
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Brothers have strange experience above Strawberry
From the Union Democrat: Warren Johnson, his brother Louis, and several friends experienced many unusual experiences above Strawberry, California. They often found footprints, heard moans, grunts, sna...
August 1971
Los Angeles County California (Class A) BFRO
Early 70's, Sighting by a deer hunter, off of Highway # 2, in the San Grabriel Mountains
Dear Sirs: This early 1970s sighting was not of my own. I was a boy when my brother-inlaw of that day and one or two of his hunting friends had an excellant and fairly long term sighting, both via th...
October 1970
San Diego County California (Class B) BFRO
An Interview with a San Diego Sheriff's Sergeant Regarding a Series of Incidents after the Laguna Fire of 1970
"The Zoobies" -- 1992 interview with Sgt. Doug Huse, San Diego County Sheriffs Department MONEYMAKER: Okay, just go ahead and tell me about yourself, when you started working there and so on. H...
September 1970
Shasta County California (Class B) BFRO
Woman describes a childhood encounter outside a tent on the edge of Lake Shasta
I was on a family camping trip. There were a lot of us. I was 13 at the time and I had never heard of Bigfoot. The way our camp was laid out was that all of us girls (two sisters, their friends and a ...
August 1970
Siskiyou County California (Class B) BFRO
Possible vocals heard by family camping near Happy Camp
It must have been late 70's; my family and I were camping in a very primitive area near Happy Camp, California on a friend of my fathers land. I was around 8 or 10. We were camped on a river, with no ...
January 1970
Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO
A large, unseen growling animal breaks large branches as it moves quickly up a hillside
I have reported this incident before. Perhaps it was not close enough to a sighting to publish on your site. I originally said that the incident occurred at Mcgee Creek. I was incorrect. It was Deadma...
January 1970
Tehama County California (Class A) BFRO
Girl has daytime sighting near Payne's Creek
My parents and I used to go deer hunting every deer season, (usually the 1st. of November) up around Payne's Creek, Ca. We always went with my girlfriend Darla's family. It was a lot of fun. My friend...
November 1969
Humboldt County California (Class B) BFRO
Father and son see large footprints outside Orick
I grew up in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. My father also grew up there. He was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, but grew up in the eastern SF Bay Area. He has a BS in Forestry, A Masters in Zoolo...
September 1969
San Diego County California (Class A) BFRO
Four Camp Pendleton soldiers confront bigfoot during nighttime training exercise
While in infantry training at Camp Pendleton in California,we had dug in on a very large hill and were expecting a enemy force to attack in the night. I had one Marine with me and to our left were two...
November 1968
Fresno County California (Class A) BFRO
Sighting by a Backpacker Near Bullfrog Lake
I was about 100 yards from our camp when I spotted what I thought was a cub bear looking around the camp. This was in broad daylight, around 3 in the afternoon. What really caught my attention was ...
July 1968
Calaveras County California (Class B) BFRO
Hunter locates large footprints near Railroad Flats
In the late 1960's my father and I went deer hunting in the area of Railroad Flat, California We arrived late one afternoon and set up camp,then we decided to go seperate ways and scout the area aroun...
January 1968
Del Norte County California (Class A) BFRO
Two men on horseback film a bigfoot as it retreats out of the creek bed and into the woods. The footage is referred to as the Patterson-Gimlin footage, named after the two men who obtained it
THE PATTERSON / GIMLIN FOOTAGE The Patterson/Gimlin footage is a short piece of 16mm film obtained by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in 1967. It was obtained in the remote canyon of Bluff Creek,...
October 1967
Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting near Happy Camp
My husband was a teacher and had left for school. Our daughter had just gotten on the grade school bus so it was after 8:00. There had been no water so I took the two little boys 3 1/2 and 20 months a...
March 1967