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Jun 1978
Ridgecrest, Kern Cty, California
Douglas Bruce Groves and his teenage brother and sister were hunting for rattlesnakes on old Hwy. 395 when they saw a pair of glowing eyes above a creosote bush just off the road. Groves stopped his jeep about 30 feet…
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1978
Palmdale, Los Angeles Cty, California
At home at Ave. L-8 and Sierra Highway, witness saw a hairy creature est. 8 feet tall standing under a tree. No further specifics.
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Feb 1979
Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino, California
Tom Taylor talked to Joe ? "a Boy Scout Leader of a sort" who said that at a campground at Lake Arrowhead he went about 70 feet to the river for water and saw a 7-foot, green-eyed, brown-haired creature staring…
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Jun 1979
Hemet, Riverside Cty, California
Story by Steve Vance quotes Dick and June Putnam regarding strange incidents in 1978 in the vicinity of the 20-acre ranch they had purchased above Diamond Valley, including sounds of something heavy walking in the brush where their car was…
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May 1980
Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
Mrs. Shirley DeWolfe said her son, 30, daughter, 24, and housekeeper saw a large biped covered with hair making long strides at 140th St. East. It was 7 to 8 feet tall and stoop shouldered. A similar creature had been…
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Sep 1980
Lake Hughes, Los Angeles Cty, California
Clyde Williams was driving West on the Three Points Road about six miles beyond Lake Hughes when he saw what he thought was a bear looking or smelling at something at the side of the road. It then rose on…
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Mar 1980
Hemet, Riverside Cty, California
On the Putnam Ranch (Incident 1000642) Don Raridon, while hunting, found footprints 17" by 6" by 4.5" and cast one of them. Tom Muzila, Peter Guttilla, Doug Trapp and Dan Perez have all seen the tracks and consider them authentic.
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May 1981
Orange Cty, California
Mr. H. was parked on a bluff in eastern Orange County, talking on his CB radio, when he heard a pounding noise. Getting out and shining a flashlight down the bluff he saw a large, hair-covered, manlike creature using what…
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May 1982
Orange Cty, California
Searching an area where "Mr. H." had reported a sighting a year earlier, Dennis Ruminer found in the sand of a nearby riverbed several hundred yards of humanlike tracks, 15" by 8", with an even 52-inch stride and a depth…
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Dec 1981
Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
Joe Chainey, a bounty hunter, had set out a trap line the day before, at 190th St. West. He found one bare footprint 13" by 5.5 to 6" by 4" with four fat toes, and 6 feet away the print…
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May 1982
Buena Park, Orange Cty, California
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.…
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Jan 1984
Simi Valley, Ventura Cty, California
Ruminer states that a man and his son riding on an all-terrain cycle in the Santa Susana Mountains on a dirt road 500 yards from a housing tract sighted an 8-foot, heavy, hairy, manlike creature standing 20 feet from the…
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Feb 1984
Simi Valley, Ventura Cty, California
Ruminer states that three men investigating the area of the January sighting at night saw an 8-foot, dark creature much wider than a man standing in the road 150 yards away. When the flashlights hit it it moved out of…
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1984
Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego Cty, California
Several sightings referred to, on 50-acre Eldesaar Arabians Ranch, of a nine-foot creature that would run around the track with the horses, sometimes with a hand on a rump. Ranch Alsatians (11 of them) would run after it but do…
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Feb 1984
Wrightwood, Mojave Cty, California
Lyle Geary and Vern Wisdom said to have been walking near Jackson Lake (not on map) when they found the footprints in the snow 22 inches by 10 inches with a 5-foot stride. As they sat on a boulder rocks…
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1986
Olancha, Inyo Cty, California
50-year-old manager of a rock crushing plant told Henry Spearman at Lone Pine in 1988 that he and his 82-year-old mother had seen sasquatches a number of times near Olancha Peak, and that two years ago a nine-foot one had…
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Dec 1986
Frazier Park, Ventura Cty, California
Three men looking for diamonds lost in a plane crash told another man that while they were camped at Buck Creek rustic campsite, six miles from the end of a road, west of Pyramid Reservoir, at the Eastern end of…
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Jun 1988
Cartago, Tulare Cty, California
Henry Spearman was camped at Tunnel Guard Forest Service Station on Golden Trout Creek, listening to his radio at 9 p.m., when he heard a tremendous scream, leaped up with hand spotlight and saw a large, dark, erect animal running…
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May 1987
Little Lake, Tulare Cty, California
Returning to Fish Creek Campground, West of Kennedy Meadows, where he had heard a scream at night a week earlier, Rich Grumley and other members of the California Bigfoot Organization found several footprints 19" by 10" by 6 to 7"…
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Dec 1988
Los Angeles Cty, California
Ron Bailey's daughter Barbara, with Eric and Bobby Baugh, was walking in Angeles National Forest when the smelled a stench, and their dog fled. They kept hiking then as they returned to camp they were followed by "a hairy man,…
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May 1989
Pasasena, Los Angeles Cty, California
Diane Vaughan was hiking, going North into Angeles National Forest from the corner of Alta Loma and Lake Avenue, north of Altadena. Precise location not established, but had done considerable climbing. On the way down she saw a movement in…
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Jul 1989
Pasadena, Los Angeles Cty, California
On the trail to Eaton Falls, from the foot of the Mount Wilson Toll Road, trying to get to the top of the falls, saw a large black sasquatch run very fast between two trees about 12 feet apart, ahead…
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Aug 1989
Sierra Madre, Los Angeles Cty, California
Unnamed man (Mark Francis says it is Ken Talder) driving on Upper Big Tujunga Canyon Road saw a creature towering over the chaparral 150 yards away, estimated 8 feet tall above shoulder-high brush, covered with hair.
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Oct 1989
Aguanga, San Diego Cty, California
Two women found two very clear five-toed tracks in the mud at the edge of a marsh on the Northeast slope of Palomar Mountain. Size guesed at 18" by 7". Prints were slightly arched. Peter Guttilla should have witness' name.
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Dec 1990
Los Angeles Cty, California
Evelyn Newton, waiting in a car at a mine location in Angeles National Forest late at night, walked across paved road towards a clearing, where she saw a large upright creature with long brown hair and red glowing eyes. It…