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Jun 1976
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Harold Crackel and son Martin say that while vacationing near Aikens Flat, about 3 1/2 miles from Fish Lake, they saw a Bigfoot walking fast and watched it go over a 7 foot embankment. Described as about 5 feet, slumped…
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Sep 1976
Mount Shasta, Siskiyou Cty, California
Virgil Larsen was about to start falling a tree for a helicopter logging show near Cascade Gulch on the Southwest slope of Mount Shasta, when he heard someone coming down the slope through the bushes, looked up and saw above…
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Oct 1976
Placerville, El Dorado Cty, California
Floyd St. Germain had separated from his two companions while exploring the bank of the American River near Slab Creek. He told Barbara Slate that he saw a 7-8 foot creature covered with dark hair, with arms dangling below knees,…
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Apr 1977
Piercy, Mendocino Cty, California
Rick Drouin's 10-year-old son Mark and a friend ran home at twilight the preceding night claiming to have seen Bigfoot. Next morning Drouin watched deer grazing on a hillside, when one darted around excitedly and they all took off as…
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Aug 1977
June Lake, Mono Cty, California
Lancaster man and two youths told Rich Grumley they saw a 7 foot creature with long white hair in the mountains behind Silver Lake, and found two sets of prints, one with five toes, one with three. Photos blurred.
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Oct 1977
Applegate, Placer Cty, California
David Seghezzi, night supervisor at Holly Acres Boarding School, told deputies he heard dogs raising hell, observed an object near the school's garbage cans and shone a flashlight on it. Eyes glowed, and an animal six feet high and tan…
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1975
Big Bend, Shasta Cty, California
Wayne Bryant interviewed after finding a single 17 1/2 inch track in October, 1977, said that two years ago he and four others driving near Big Bend at 2 a.m. saw a 7-foot creature crashing through the underbrush alongside the…
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Jul 1978
Dunsmuir, Shasta Cty, California
Riding with family on Interstate 5, about 10 miles South of Castle Crags, watching how railroad ran through forest, saw a large black form walking alongside the tracks. After about 10 seconds asked husband, who was driving, what it was.…
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1978
Yosemite Park, California
Robert Richardson quoted as saying he was camping alone at the head of Iron Meadow, above Fresno Dome and about 2,000 feet below Iron Lakes (none of which are on 1:250,000 map). an 8-foot hairy, thin creature, with straight back,…
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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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Sep 1979
Camp Richardson, El Dorado Cty, California
Raymond D. told Frank Flaton that he and his friend Dan, vacationing at Camp Richardson, got lost hiking to Fallen Leaf Lake and were following a stream bed back to Lake Tahoe. In the muddy bed they encountered huge footprints,…
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Dec 1979
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Indian girl at Hoopa told Mark Keller that when she and her family went to cut a Christmas tree near Fish Lake they came on sasquatch tracks in the snow, 14 inches long. They were terrified. Tracks described as "deep",…
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1980
Willow Creek, Humboldt Cty, California
Ken Wickman and another young forest worker measuring timber on Brannon Mountain, found hundreds of tracks, about 17x7x5" on the Northeast side of the mountain, on both flat and inclined areas. A consistent 54" stride. One cast made.
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Jun 1980
Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz Cty, California
Dave Wilhelm and Ben Lawson were in sleeping bags in a grassy field off Granite Creek Road east of Scotts Valley, a few houses around and a steep, forested hillside at one side. They heard heavy footsteps coming down the…
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Sep 1980
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Man who didn't want his name used told Lou Saunders at Bluff Creek Resort that one night in September he saw a dark form on two legs take Hwy 96 near Aikens Creek in two steps.
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Jul 1981
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Dennis Ruminer, hiking to Deer Lick Lake, found 50 yards of tracks, one 13 1/2" by 7", another 11" x 6", apparently in company. Next day, 50 yards away, found some more tracks 17" by 7 1/2".
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Jul 1981
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Dennis Ruminer, hiking to Deer Lick Lake, found 50 yards of tracks, one 13 1/2" by 7", another 11" x 6", apparently in company. Next day, 50 yards away, found some more tracks 17" by 7 1/2".
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Dec 1980
Morgan Hill, Santa Clara Cty, California
Jose Rivera was looking for three lost cows, walking up a canyon in the San Antonio Valley, in the Diablo Range, heard splashing ahead, and at 125 feet saw two hairy things splashing around in a stock-watering pond, up to…
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Nov 1981
Happy Camp, Siskiyou Cty, California
Al Casner, prospecting, found 13-inch footprints in mud on a logging skid trail in Lick Creek drainage. (Tributary of Elk Creek, not on map). Took a group to see them the next day, did not agree that they could not…
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Aug 1994
Klamath Falls, Klamath Cty, Oregon
Pat Garnier and Buddy Parazou, hunting elk "1 1/2 miles S.W. of Pelican Butte, about 5 miles West of the upper end of Klamath Lake" on top of a ridge in heavy forest saw a creature like a gorilla with…
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Sep 1963
Orleans, Del Norte, California
Al Hodgson and others looking for tracks, found one old 16-inch track in the bed of Bluff Creek.
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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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Jul 1960
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Told by Peter Byrne about a Bigfoot track near the Lawrence Omeg cabin at Bee Creek on Bluff Creek Road, Bill Oden went to see it.
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Aug 1982
Pacific Grove, Monterey Cty, California
Two boys and a girl told police that while driving home they saw a 7-foot "gorilla-type" creature cross Buena Vista Street in three leaping steps. Street is 20 feet wide. It moved bent over, with an apelike shamble. They described…
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1982
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Bob Titmus spent several weeks looking for tracks around Bluff Creek. He found and cast 15 1/2 inch tracks on the same sandbar where the Patterson film was made, apparently from the same creature as shown in the film.