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Sasquatch Sightings

4,068 incidents

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  1. 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…

    #1000589 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  2. 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,…

    #1000590 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  3. 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…

    #1000591 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  4. 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.

    #1000592 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  5. 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…

    #1000594 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  6. 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…

    #1000595 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  7. 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.…

    #1000596 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  8. 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,…

    #1000597 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  9. 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…

    #1000598 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  10. 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,…

    #1000599 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  11. 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",…

    #1000600 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  12. 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.

    #1000601 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  13. 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…

    #1000602 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  14. 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.

    #1000603 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  15. 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".

    #1000604 one large, one small Footprints

  16. 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".

    #1000605 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  17. 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…

    #1000606 one large, one small Creature description

  18. 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…

    #1000607 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  19. 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.

    #1000609 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  20. Feb 1970 Greenfield, Monterey Cty, California

    At Orroyo Seco Resort, in Los Padres National Forest, Bill Enos saw a single 17-inch track

    #1000610 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  21. 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.

    #1000611 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  22. 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…

    #1000612 one large, sex unknown Creature description

  23. 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.

    #1000613 one large, sex unknown Footprints

  24. 1982 Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California

    Bob Titmus went to look at tracks reported in small artificial pond just above Laird Meadow on Onion Mountain. Found two large footprints plus handprints and knee prints, all under water. Partially drained pond and made casts.

    #1000614 one large, sex unknown Creature description Footprints

  25. Dec 1983 Paradise, Butte Cty, California

    Young woman was driving down a steep canyon to her cottage on a dark, stormy evening when she saw a huge Bigfoot cross the road into the brush. She had two earlier possible sightings. One she said looked like a…

    #1000615 one large, sex unknown Creature description