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Oct 1973
Klamath Glen, Del Norte Cty, California
Rick Blagden, deer hunting, was resting when something sneezed loudly behind him. He turned and saw a huge, furry, dark, barrel-like creature well over 6 feet tall, which stood there for a while then slowly walked down a steep hill…
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1973
Hoopa, Humboldt Cty, California
Dave McCoy said that his friend saw Bigfoot tracks more than once in 1973 during road construction on Pine Ridge.
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Oct 1973
Chico, Butte Cty, California
Two girls, no identification or description, reported to Chico city police at 1.30 a.m. that while walking in the area of the Five-Mile Dam they were followed for a short distance by a 10-foot creature covered with very dark hair…
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Apr 1974
Redding, Shasta, California
Fishing, Bill Laveen saw across a clearing 70 yards away a creature 7 feet tall, covdred with hair, with slow, stiff movements. Both left. Low credibility rating given because Jean Miller's account places this incident at Round Mountain, 25 miles…
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Mar 1974
Plantation, Sonoma Cty, California
Eleanore McKay wrote that when camped in Salt Point State Park on Hwy. 1 North of Fort Ross, California, two men told her that after dark the night before they were standing outside when a very tall creature that looked…
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May 1974
Willow Creek, Trinity Cty, California
Greg Michael was sleeping in a van in Grays Falls campground, about 4 miles North of Burnt Ranch, when something tried to open the side door. It kept trying doors for about 15 minutes. There was a strong smell. About…
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May 1974
Viola, Shasta Cty, California
Driving east on Hwy 44, between Shingletown and Viola, saw a tall, hunched figure run from the brush on the right, cross the highway and disappear in the brush on the left. It was covered with greyish hair or fur,…
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May 1974
Fort Bragg, Mendocino Cty, California
Lester Tubbs told the sheriff's office that he found footprints 18 inches by 8 inches in his garden. They did not take the report seriously. Prints varied in length by as much as 2 inches. (Information from Loren Coleman, clipping…
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Jul 1974
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Four rafters on Trinity River, within a mile of junction with Klamath River, found on a sandy stretch of shore about 30 tracks approximately 15 inches by 6 to 7 inches.
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1974
Rockport, Mendocino Cty, California
A friend told Grover Krantz that Reginald Tolbert saw a large, wide, manlike creature in the early morning on the South Fork of the Eel River midway between Rockport and Laytonville. It was dark brown or black, and "casually moved…
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1974
Burnt Ranch, Trinity Cty, California
Driving West on Hwy 299 about 3 or 4 a.m., between Burnt Ranch and Grays Falls, rounded a bend and saw a black-brown crature, broad at the shoulder, standing in the road 60 feet ahead. It turned its body, hadn't…
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Sep 1974
Vacaville, Solano Cty, California
Dana Pierscinski was walking on Mix Canyon Road near the top of Mount Vaca when he saw a figure stride out on the road ahead silhouetted against the sky at the top of a rise. It stopped, turned and looked…
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Feb 1975
Round Mountain, Shasta Cty, California
John Russak told a reporter he found tracks at his home and followed them about a mile north toward the Pit River. Prints were 17 inches by 7 inches, with a 28 inch stride. Only four toes showed, with an…
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Jun 1975
Iron Mountain, Shasta Cty, California
Citizens' band radio broadcast reported by listener at Incline Village, Nevada to Nevada Highway Patrol, two campers said they were "in the Iron Mountain area" and were being "harassed by a male and female Bigfoot." They said two creatures about…
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Aug 1975
Woodacre, Marin Cty, California
Joe Speck showed Beckjord a super 8 film taken from a stream bed in Samuel P. Taylor State Park, showing a dark bipedal animal. He said he was taking a nature-type test film for a television show when he heard…
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Sep 1975
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Mark Kerr told deputies he was driving on Cherokee Road near Thompson Flat Road when his headlights illuminated a creature standing on the dirt embankment on the left side of the road. It was 6 to 7 feet tall, brown,…
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Feb 1976
Burnt Ranch, Trinity Cty, California
Jason and Jeffrey Ownbey, waiting for the school bus at their home two miles up Underwood Mountain Road from Burnt Ranch, found a single footprint in a mudhole, 16 inches by 6 inches, five toes. Someone named Debra J? later…
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Sep 1975
Pine Grove, Amador Cty, California
Joe Coughlin, 13, on his way to visit Rick Van Dell, 14, at his home on North edge of Pine Grove about 7 p.m., heard a grunt behind him, turned and saw huge, hairy creature in flashlight beam. Ran to…
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Nov 1976
Plymouth, Amador Cty, California
Bobbie Abercrombie braked for a fawn crossing the road, then a sasquatch stepped out and crossed the road in front of her, then stepped over a fence. She assumed it was after the fawn.
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Sep 1975
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Two surveyors told Saunders that they had seen a sasquatch and later its tracks on the Slate Creek Road early in September. He said they were "scared to death and preferred to forget the whole thing."
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Mar 1976
Weitchpec, Humboldt, California
Saunders said two men claimed to have seen a sasquatch on Fish Lake Road in March. Reportedly between 6 and 7 feet, stooped and ran very fast.
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Apr 1976
Mill Valley, Marin Cty, California
Caroline Morris called police about "screaming, screaching and growling" in the ravine below her hillside home. Patrolmen Dan Murphy and Edward Johnson heard the sounds, "screaming and howling" and heard heavy breathing and crackling and rustling of something approaching as…
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May 1976
Vacaville, Solano Cty, California
Sightings reported over several nights, by teenagers, except for Mrs. Valerie Lewis. Her son, Clifton Negrete, had cast of footprint found next day. Other footprints found after later sightings. Greatest stride 72 inches. John Beckjord went there in July and…
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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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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…