Sasquatch Sightings

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Three (one paper says four) 16-year-old boys, one of them apparently Raymond Hinsley, reported that they had seen a heavy, 7.5 to 8-foot hair-covered biped after dark in a big drainage ditch near an apartment building at 7601 Franklin Ave. in Buena Park. There was a strong smell. They watched it walk away and enter a concrete storm drain leading to a river. There were apparently other sightings, the Herald-Examiner referring to "at least five" Buena Park witnesses, and mentioning David Bianes, 25, as a witness. Police investigated but ended up saying the boys had seen a long-haired tramp who was in the area. Ruminer and Muzila saw one footprint, 16 to 17 inches long, five-toed, in mud in the ditch, before spectators trampled it, and also found in the culvert what they considered to be thumb and finger impressions.