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Jul 1969
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Charles Jackson told deputies that he and his 5-year-old son Kevin were burning rabbit entrails in the back yard of their place on Cherokee Road (they raised rabbits) when a door to an outbuilding opened and an "ape-like female covered…
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Jul 1969
Twain, Plumas Cty, California
Lester Olinger was driving from Quincy to his home at Twain, with two girls from Vallejo as passengers, when he rounded a curve on Hwy 70 and had to swerve to avoid colliding with a crouched-down apelike figure in the…
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Oct 1969
Feather Falls, Butte Cty, California
Chuck Mauldin going upstream by boat in the middle fork of the Feather River, saw a creature running along an abandoned construction road several hundred feet up on the bank. Estimated 8 feet tall, covered with shaggy brown hair.
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Dec about 1969
Burney, Shasta Cty, California
Dorsey Davis drove by on a road north of the highway, east of the mill, near the P.G. & E. powerline, passing a large, erect creature standing by the road on a bank about three feet high. It was not…
- Jul 1973 Dunsmuir, Trinity, California
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Jan 1970
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Ken Coon and Bill Early, looking for tracks around Oroville, where there had been a dozen sightings reported in the previous six months, found some 15-inch and some 6-inch tracks together in muddy sod.
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Jan 1970
Greenfield, Monterey Cty, California
Six youths, boar hunting, saw five tracks, 16 1/2 x 7", sunk 3/4" deep in dirt in a clearing in Los Padres National Forest.
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Sep 1965
Hesperia, San Bernadino Cty, California
Jim Gorrell and his wife were sitting at their campfire in a dry creek bed at the mouth of Deep Creek, radio playing, cooking hot dogs, when an 8 foot, erect creature with yellow-green reflecting eyes approached within a few…
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Apr 1973
Littlerock, Los Angeles Cty, California
Richard Engels and Brian Goldojarb were on a camping trip, riding in the back of a pickup truck on the Big Rock Creek Road between 10 and 11 p.m. Going West past Sycamore Flat Campground they saw a huge erect…
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Aug 1966
Fontana, San Bernardino Cty, California
Teenage boys had reported seeing "an ape in a tree" north of Fontana, and Jerrilou Mendenhall and Kathy Albright, both 16, were driving around the dirt roads looking for it. Mendenhall said she was backing slowly down a dirt road…
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Mar 1973
Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
One of several reported sightings in Antelope Valley that spring, one of which was 10 days earlier and a mile away. Kim McDonald, 19, came home from babysitting about 2 a.m. and was surprised the two dogs did not come…
- Apr 1973 Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
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May 1969
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Dr. Northrup and students were looking for tracks in the Bluff Creek area. Above Laird Meadow, in snow, they found a single clear 12" print, then a number of doubtful, rain-washed prints mixed in with boot prints. Two hikers had…
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May 1969
Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California
Heading towards Blue Creek Mountain from Onion Lake, Dr. Northrup and party came on rain-softened double tracks, 16-inches long, with a four-foot pace. They followed the road about 400 yards, then turned down towards Laird Meadow on a snow-free slope.…
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before 1860
Independence, Inyo Cty, California
Tracks 18" by 6" turned up in the mornings sometimes in the mining towns of San Carlos, Bend City and Chrysopolis, shortly before the mines gave out and the towns were abandoned in the mid 1800's. These towns were on…
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Feb 1876
San Diego, San Diego Cty, California
L.T.H. writes that he and Turner Helm were prospecting 10 miles East of Warner's Ranch and that Helm told him he had heard a whistle, then saw a creature sitting on a boulder 15 or 20 paces from him. It…
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1939
Warner Springs, San Diego Cty, California
Anderson was approached at his campfire by several creatures of typical sasquatch description, covered with white or silver hair, and with red glowing eyes. He thought one of them wanted to attack his burro. No explanation given of how incident…
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Nov 1958
Riverside, San Bernardino Cty, California
Charles Wetzel was driving at night on North Main Street in Riverside, where it crosses the dry bed of the Santa Ana River when something jumped in front of his car reached back to the windshield and began clawing at…
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before 1964
San Bernardino, San Bernardino Cty, California
Story says two girls saw a 7-foot, brown-haired beast covered with moss and slime at Lytle Creek Wash. (A "wash" is a dry creek bed). That's all.
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Nov 1964
Fillmore, Ventura Cty, California
Youngsters reported encountering a hairy "animal man" near the ruins of an abandoned dairy.
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1966
Quartz Hill, Los Angeles Cty, California
Two young men reported to L.A. sheriff's department that they had seen the outline of a Bigfoot-type creature on the outskirts of Quartz Hill, on a hilltop above the highway. Deputies could find no evidence.
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Feb 1967
Costa Mesa, Orange Cty, California
Book says only that police had reports of a hairy monster around 15th St. and Santa Ana Ave. in Costa Mesa. It looked like an ape and made a lunge at an auto. This incident report is included because another…
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Jul 1968
Borrego Springs, San Diego Cty, California
Magazine story says Harold Lancaster, prospecting in Borrego Sink, East of Borrego Springs, one morning saw a man walking in the desert. Using binoculars he saw that it was not a man, but a giant apeman. As it got closer…
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late 1960's
Weldon, Kern Cty, California
Young boy quoted Mr. Weldon as saying that he had several times seen a huge upright creature killing cattle or horses in pasture lands North of Weldon and Lake Isabella. It was 12 to 14 feet high, black, moved around…
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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.…