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Mendocino County California (Class A) BFRO
Teenagers have sighting of two creatures near Albion
My encounter took place in Albion, Mendocino County Calif. in the summer of 1966 when I was 15 years old. My father was a commercial fisherman, and had his boat docked up the Albion River about 250 or...
August 1966
Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO
Sighting at East Boulder Lake
I was working as a councilor at wilderness summer camp based at Mosquito Lake. Several councilors would sign up each session for excursions on 1 to 3 nights away in the back country. This hike was dur...
July 1966
Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO
Family has early evening sighting near Weed
Our family kept a bee yard near Mt. Shasta, on the old Oregon Trail. One evening, after tending the bees, my father looked up towards the road home and saw a man standing near a stump of a tree. Then ...
January 1966
Sutter County California (Class A) BFRO
Man remembers childhood daytime sighting along the Feather River
I'm 42 now and its been a while since I decided to tell my story about what I saw that beautiful sunny day about 11:00am if you go down to the Pasquines restaurant, take rear turn-off road and keep go...
July 1965
Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO
Teens have unusual experience near Myers Flat
Me and four other boys had found an old logging cabin about three miles up in the woods from Myers Flats and used this old shelter for several summers. One night (the last one) we were all camping for...
July 1965
Trinity County California (Class B) BFRO
Friends hear late night scream near Garberville
Some friends and I had come home late from a dance and were setting in the house tuning a guitar when all of a sudden we heard this loud wail or cry coming from outside. It was cold but no snow yet. W...
November 1964
Ventura County California (Class A) BFRO
Man retells his close, visual encounter at dawn on Pine Mountain as a young deer hunter
An unknown ape-like creature walked upright out of the thick patch of bushes and stood looking, for several seconds, up and down the fire lane. I cocked the hammer back on the .32 caliber carbine, sho...
August 1964
Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO
Sisters have a sighting at different times in the mid 1960?s
I grew up on the mountain along the Eel river (Kings Range) I can not tell you the exact year that I had this sighting not sure if I was 11 or 12. That would of put it at 62 thru 64. I was below our h...
January 1964
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Deputy Sheriff sees strange footprints above Strawberry
The Deputy Sheriff from Pinecrest reported hundreds of 15 inch tracks with a 5 foot stride in Leland Meadow, a popluar recreation area. No casts were made, but news of the tracks made the local paper,...
December 1963
San Bernardino County California (Class B) BFRO
Eighteen year old young man has strange encounter on a dark gravel road.
This is not a sighting, but I strongly believe it would have been. It happened 40 years ago this past summer. The year was 1963. I had to go out to California with my family. I really did not want to ...
August 1963
Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO
Teen has daytime sighting near Myers Flat
This was a long time ago where I grew up in northern California. I lived in a small town called Piercy, California about 17 miles from Garberville. This encounter was located in a small mill town call...
August 1963
Mariposa County California (Class A) BFRO
Two teenagers have late night sighting near Coulterville
When I was 15 yrs. old I and a friend were outside of Coulterville Ca. It was at night on a ranch. We were in bed looking out a window from a dark room. The window was six feet off the ground.There wa...
March 1963
Mendocino County California (Class A) BFRO
Ceature observed at playground
We were all playing and having fun with a bunch of people at the Cook's Valley Campground in Piercy. A bunch of the kids were rough-housing and playing, making a lot of noise, when we all took notice ...
January 1963
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
Large prints found below Cold Springs
From the Union Democrat, Tuesday, January 29, 1963: PURSUIT LED BY SHERIFF King-sized tracks were traced today in efforts to confirm or halt reports a 10-foot monster is roaming Tuolumne county b...
January 1963
Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO
10-Ft. Shrieking Monster reported near Cold Springs
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 P...
January 1963
Stanislaus County California (Class A) BFRO
Youngsters encounter large, grey creature in a sugar beet field
While riding our bike just after sundown my dogs started going crazy, I looked at my dogs and saw that the hair on their backs was straight up. I looked in the direction they were barking and standing...
August 1962
Humboldt County California (Class B) BFRO
Hunters have unusual late night experience near Willow Creek
This incident happened 41 years ago when I was 19 years old. My friend and I were bear hunting up in Humboldt County on the Hoopa Indian Reservation. It was in March or April. Back then bear hunting w...
April 1961
Inyo County California (Class A) BFE
Dad and three sons encounter Bigfoot at night while camping at Mirror Lake on Mt. Whitney Trail
My dad, 2 brothers and I were at mirror lake lake on the Mt Whitney trail, when my dad, while cooking dinner, threw the butt of a loaf of bread a few feet out of camp. While laying on our sleeping bag...
January 1960
Yuba County California (Class B) BFRO
Hunters Have Unusual Night Time Encounter
In 1959 a friend and I went deer hunting in the hills above Marysville, California. At the time Beale Air Force Base was closed so we went on the base in the mountains. We camped out in the old barrac...
October 1959
Santa Cruz County California (Class B) BFRO
Man describes possible sighting during childhood in Hinkley Basin
This happened 48 years ago. I was a boy 13 years old and my friend and I were riding our bikes in a remote part of the Santa Cruz Mts. in what today is a State Park. However, at the time this was priv...
April 1958
Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO
Three children have daytime sighting near Eureka
I was about 10 or 11 years old. My brother 15 month's older and a friend my age. I am now 53 years old. We lived in the country outside of Eureka California. We went fishing at the end of our rural Rd...
January 1958
Nevada County California (Class A) BFRO
Teenager has daytime sighting near Truckee
My dad, my brother and I were deer hunting just north (about 1/2 mi.) of Donner Lake, CA along the utility road running east-west. They left me, with my dog (a Beagle), on a large boulder while they w...
January 1956
Tulare County California (Class A) BFRO
Boy Scout has late night sighting above Porterville
This incident occurred in the fall of the year, in Tulare county, Ca. The year was approximately 1955, plus or minus one year. I was about eleven years old, and on a boy scout camping trip. Although t...
August 1955
San Bernardino County California (Class A) BFRO
Sighting along Lytle Creek
Heard whistling and wood-chomping noises and looked towards sounds and saw hairy man-like creature (very muscular). It saw me and stayed there for approx. 2 min. Then walked into the treeline by the e...
July 1950
Ventura County California (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting on the edge of Sespe Creek (CA Condor Refuge), in Los Padres National Forest
This happened when I was 12 years old, so that had to be in 1950. I was camping in Los Padres National Forest. I was riding along a hill following a trail down to water in the Sespy River. About 50 ya...
January 1950