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1969
Trinity Center, Trinity Cty, California
Don Ballard and a companion, on horseback, saw a sasquatch bending over. It rose and walked past a young tree. Dark brown hair, fast, long stride, taller than an 8 foot tree it went by. Partial print in moss 17"…
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Jul 1969
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Leonard Mack told Jim McClarin tht he saw a sasquatch cross a pasture west of Cherokee Road.
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Oct 1969
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Laura Strang said that her husband, Wes Strang, was near his barn at 5.30 p.m. on Hallowe'en when he saw over towards the creek a big monkey or ape with hair all over it, hunched over, squatted down, with its…
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1969
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Ron Sanders said he had seen two sasquatch turning over rocks in French Creek across the reservoir from Oroville, and eating.
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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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about 1971
Korbel, Humboldt Cty, California
Rob Nelson and another employee of Simpson Timber Co., driving from Korbel along the Mad River rounded a bend in the dirt road and saw on the far bank of the river a tall, dark figure, walking upright,somewhat leaning forward,…
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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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about 1986
Maricopa, Kern Cty, California
Friend of Francis Busa relayed story by scout leader from Bakersfield whom he considered reliable. Man was driving family home from coast on Hwy 166 late at night, everyone else asleep, coming downhill just outside Maricopa when he passed a…
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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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Jul 1971
Platina, Shasta Cty, California
Bill O'Neill and Dave Green walking from upper to lower campsite at Basin Gulch, heard footfalls, shined flashlight up sidehill and saw a sasquatch standing under a tree. Luminous red eyes, short hair everywhere but around cheeks and eyes. Froze…
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Aug 1971
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This is the first of several nights on which men staying in a leanto high in the mountains above the Stanislaus River heard mysterious sounds suggesting the presence of a large creature or creatures outside, and then found huge footprints…
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1971
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This report concerns the only sighting report in the series. Louis (Lewis?) Johnson watching through a small opening in their log shelter saw a creature start across a patch of bright moonlight. It bounded away when he made a noise.…
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1971
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
This is a catch-all incident report to cover the various sizes of tracks reported found in 1971, at various places, some of them distant from the camp. Warren Johnson states that the creatures seemed to be communicating with each other,…
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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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Sep 1971
Willows, Glenn Cty, California
C.H. Chambers told deputies that while driving his pickup truck he hit a 10-foot anthropoid animal walking on two feet. No location given. When he went back it was gone. Jim McClarin investigated and doubts the story. Hit by car.
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Dec 1971
Orleans, Humboldt Cty, California
Mike Burke, Buck Ferguson and Bill Mueller, forest service workers out of Orleans, found huge tracks on the Camp Creek Road a mile beyond the Twin Lakes turnoff. They measured 30 inches by 10 inches, in deep snow, possibly melted…
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Jun 1972
Strawberry, Tuolomne Cty, California
Warren Johnson writes that creatures were heard at camp for two nights, ate bait left out and seemed to be asking for more. Three sets of footprints left, 16 inch, 20 inch, and 26" by 14" with a 72-inch stride…
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Oct 1972
Redding, Shasta Cty, California
Randy Norton and Steven Gillispie, camping by Clear Creek, at the Placer Street bridge, heard and had glimpses of two creatures during the night, then at dawn saw on the hill to the west a creature like a gorilla but…
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Jan 1973
Eureka, Avenue of the Giants, California
Tony Lamann said he was hauling logs from Grants Pass to Eurka on the Avenue of the Giants. As he rounded a curve a creature stepped out on the hightway and the truck hit it. It flew off to the…