Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Charles Jackson told deputies that he and his 5-year-old son Kevin were burning rabbit entrails in the back yard of their place on Cherokee Road (they raised rabbits) when a door to an outbuilding opened and an "ape-like female covered except for the chest area with silver-tipped hair, emerged." He said the creature was 7 to 8 feet tall, had a flat forehead and a wide, spreading nose. It ran uphill and into the woods. Other newspaper reports quoted Jackson as saying it had very large breasts, that the hair was three inches long, and there was no hair on the face and palms. He told a deputy that his five dogs were "very excited" at the time of the sighting, and also the night before when a strange scream was heard. This report was widely publicized and attracted half a dozen sasquatch investigators, who in turn stirred up a dozen more reports in the area in the next few months. The Jacksons, however, had moved away, address unknown, before any investigator arrived. Gordon D. Brown, from Chico, told Jim McClarin that he had found shallow partial footprint, 14 to 16 inches long, on the hill behind Jackson's house. The information about vegetation in this report comes from a computer report Jim McClarin did with Brown.