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Dec 1970
Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
Kim Polumbo saw a Bigfoot cast at Ken Coon's home and told him she had seen similar tracks along the edge of a dirt road in the foothills near the Fairmont Reservoir in Northwest Los Angeles County several weeks before.…
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early 1970's
Palmdale, Los Angeles Cty, California
Hippy told Rich Grumley that he was waiting to meet a drug seller in the Los Angeles National Forest back of the Little Rock Dam when he saw and shot at a sasquatch-type creature that walked towards him from the…
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about 1970
China Lake, Tulare Cty, California
Dave Burdette was employed at a tungsten mine in Rockhouse Basin at Kennedy Meadows, and was working on a truck when he saw a 7 ft. reddish-brown creature running fast on its hind legs on the far side of the…
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May 1970
Platina, Shasta Cty, California
Archie Buckley, Delmas Buckley and Jim Whalen in a tent at Basin Gulch campground near Harrison Gulch Ranger Station, heard heavy footfalls in the night. Next morning Whalen found footprints in an adjacent campsite 50 yards away. Twenty-seven prints found,…
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Jun 1970
Platina, Trinity Cty, California
Archie Buckley, sasquatch hunting, found 33 tracks in two stretches on the trail through Stuart Gap to the Yolla Bolly Wilderness Area, about a quarter mile from Stuart Gap campground. Jim McClarin saw them later. No detail in the forest…
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Jun 1970
Platina, Trinity Cty, California
Archie Buckley, sasquatch hunting, awake in vehicle with meat and fish baits set out in campground, listened to footfalls considered to be bipedal, then switched on flashlight and held it on a tall, dark, erect creature about 100 feet away.…
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1970
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Ed Patrick, driving a logging truck in Nikowitz Creek valley, stopped to see Bigfoot tracks reported coming onto the road from below. He saw two tracks.
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Apr 1970
Hyampom, Trinity Cty, California
Buzz McLaughlin describes strange screams and smells around Manzanita Ranch School in Hyampom, where he was a student, and says that on successive nights in April floodlights were turned on and a 9-foot creature like a big gorilla was seen…
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about 1970
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Chrys Lynds wrote that his college roommate and several companions went searching at Notice Creek and found several fresh tracks, making two casts. Casts are 16.5 inches by 7.5 inches.
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Aug 1970
Platina, Trinity Cty, California
Ben E. Foster Jr., Sharon Gorden and Richard Foster, 13, camped at Basin Gulch campground. About 8 p.m. Sharon saw a sasquatch watching from a hill above the camp about 50 yards away. Ben walked toward it. At about 25…
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Jun 1970
Yosemite Village, Tuolomne Cty, California
Book states that Wes Chormicle, Santa Barbara, and a friend followed a creature with a 14 to 16-inch foot and a four-foot stride for six miles in the Baily Ridge area of Northeastern Yosemite Park.
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about 1970
Big Sur, Monterey Cty, California
Al King submitted a report by Harvey Alan Katz, who said that on a back pack trip to Big Sur, Ventana Primitive Area, he and another person were walking up Lion Creek from the Big Sur River, about two miles…
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Jul 1970
Mammoth, Mono Cty, California
Informant saw a single footprint, 18" by 7" by 5", 3/4" deep with five distinct toes, in dry mud near a lake in the Inyo Craters.
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Oct 1970
Woodfords, Alpine Cty, California
Ni Orsi and a friend were driving on Highway 4 near Ebbets Pass when they encountered footprints 16 to 18 inches long crossing the road in six inches of new snow. The highway had been closed hours before and it…
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Dec 1970
Round Mountain, Shasta Cty, California
John Russak said his mother in law, Barbara Mota, found tracks 16' by 7", like a human foot but with only four toe marks, on his property on Fenders Ferry Road while looking for her cat. Tracks were in snow,…
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early 1970's
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This is a catch-all report for the tracks seen by the Johnson party and Alan Berry from 1972 to 1974, about which there is very little information, and for the sounds taped by Alan Berry and others in that time.
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mid 1970's
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Deborah Post, then a teenager, was fishing with her father on Bluff Creek half a mile from the Klamath, when they heard brush breaking on a ridge behind them and saw a black upright figure leap behind a big tree.…
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late 1970's
Leggett, Mendocino Cty, California
Ray Hawkins said he was in a cafe in Leggett, California, when a man came in and said that a hairy monster had killed his hounds. A group including Hawkins drove an hour on dirt roads to get within walking…
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Feb 1970
Greenfield, Monterey Cty, California
At Orroyo Seco Resort, in Los Padres National Forest, Bill Enos saw a single 17-inch track
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before 1970
Tacoma, Pierce Cty, Washington
Diane Loidhamer was parked with fiance on road on East side of Lake Tapps when they were disturbed by noises outside the car. The drove down the road and then turned to go back. Near the place where they had…
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Sep 1970
Marietta, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Fishing with a net on the Nooksack River, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brudeveld saw a large, heavy, black animal standing knee deep in the water. It slipped under and he believes it swam away under water. Later he found tracks…
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Aug 1970
Skamania, Skamania Cty, Washington
Driving on Hwy. 14 at Woodard Creek Bridge in daylight around 7 p.m., Louise Baxter thought she had a flat tire, stopped and got out of the car. She then felt she was being watched, turned and looked to the…
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Jan 1970
Goldendale, Yakima, Washington
Four men fishing in a "weasel" in warm spring in Cedar Valley that does not freeze saw a creature 7 to 9 feet tall, very heavy, walking upright 200 yards away, hair-covered. Two feet of snow on ground. Patterson flew…
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Jun 1970
Preston, King Cty, Washington
Don Phillips and Nelbert Neil and their wives drove up a dirt road just East of the Monroe cutoff on Hwy 90 to sleep out beside their car. The men tried making wolf and cougar sounds, then notice a big…
- Feb 1970 Kettle Falls, Ferry Cty, Washington