Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Homer Stickley had gone to turn out the lights in a guest house across the road from his home on Cherokee Road, people staying there having departed after an emergency phone call. A large dark creature appeared from behind a large tree stump and walked slowly away across the open field, looking back from time to time. It was taller than the stump which was later measured at 7'3". Low credibility rating is given because it was dark and Stickley was a man over 80 with serious eye problems. He had to wear very dark glasses in daylight, but said his night vision was alright. Also he said in the computer interview in 1970 that his sighting was in July, 1969, but when McClarin had visited him in August, 1969, he had mentioned other incidents, such as all the apples off his tree being taken by something his German Shepherd dogs wouldn't tackle, but did not mention a sighting. This sighting followed a widely publicized sighting nearby (Charles Jackson, July 12, incident 1000387). Stickley also said that 18" and 15" tracks had been found on his property, and he and his wife described strange sounds heard at night. Warren Thompson visited there in November and at night heard sounds like a chimpanzee hooting. There were more than a dozen reports in the Oroville vicinity that summer and fall, and at least a half dozen sasquatch hunters spent time there