California IBS SIghting Reports

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IBS Report #: 1339

Location: FRESNO county, CA. United States

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +036˚ 58' N
Longitude: 118˚ 53' W
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Year: 1982 (1976 ERRO
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Data Source: TR17
Credibility: 1
Locality: CHAIN LAKE NR LONE PINE
Researcher: SHANNON HOWE
Witness: LARRY HOWE

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: ODOR

Sighting Text:
CA TR17* Shannon Howe told me of a tale (in news #15, page 3-4) of his dad, Larry Howe, and he brought dad into the shop. The first hand report was very similar. To recap; in 1982 (erroneously 1976 in #15), Larry was horse packing near Chain Lake, outside of Lonepine in Calif. They had a 125# white German shepard along that was normally very obedient. The dog was strangely very protective at night, going from one sleeping bag to the next. The next morning the dog ran off chasing after something that smelled very bad...a musky stench. They were worried about the dog, but it eventually came back unharmed. Larry spent 18 years as a movie stunt man and has been in the "Fall Guy," and "Breakout.-
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Precip: LONE PINE INYO COUNTY 0.0 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.1 0.4 2.7
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 831

Location: FRESNO county, CA. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +037˚ 07' N
Longitude: 119˚ 04' W
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Month: LATE SEPT
Year: 1995
Time: 7 AM
Elevation: 8000

Data Source: TR84
Credibility: 1
Locality: 65 miles east of Fresno, SWAMP LAKE
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: BIKERS

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 14-15 IN TRACKS, DERMAL RIDGES PRESENT, TOES SPLAYED

Sighting Text:
CA FRESNO 1995 TR#84 37 07N 119 04W * BFRO report. Witness and several friends were 65 miles east of Fresno, CA, on the Swamp Lake 4-wheel drive route, in the Sierra NF at 8000 ft. Late September, 1995, about 7 AM, temperature was about 30 degrees. Witness was riding mountain bike on swamp route, friends riding 3-5 minutes away. As he ascended trail heard a large animal moving in the forest some 20 yards off the trail. Couldn’t see but could clearly hear it in the underbrush. On up the trail, one of my friends was in the trail looking at a very large set of footprints, about 200 yards from where he heard the noises. The tracks had come on the trail and proceeded down it about 30-50 yards. It appeared to walk a few steps, stop and stand still, then move a few more feet, as if it had stopped and was listening. It went down the trail a few more yards than headed into a small meadow near where I had heard noises in the brush. The tracks were very deep in silty powder and were well detailed. Lines in the sole of the foot were visible and the toes were splayed, there was little or no arch present. Tracks were about 14-15 inches, witness could fit whole shoe into track. The tracks were laid down on top of the trail of my friends bike, who was about five minutes ahead of me. A couple of bear hunters came along and we asked what they thought...they had never seen such a track. A half mile up the road the tracks appeared again, moving across the road and going downhill towards the previous site of prints. The bear hunters had also found the tracks and followed, but lost them in thick brush. The jeep trail runs close to the Dinkey Lakes Wilderness area. This area of pine forest has granite outcrops and a small creek off the trail, a tributary of Ruby Creek, with a small meadow. Witness again says elevation is around 8000 feet with a question mark.
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IBS Report #: 1044

Location: FRESNO county, CA. United States

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +037˚ 13' N
Longitude: 119˚ 14' W
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Year: 1995
Time: 11 PM
Elevation: 7040

Data Source: TR92
Credibility: 1
Locality: HUNTINGTON LAKE
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: 5 PEOPLE

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: VOCALIZATION, TALKING BACKWARDS ENGLISH

Sighting Text:
* BFRO report. In Feb, 1995 about 11PM, full moon,sounds were heard at Huntington Lake, CA by five people sitting on lawn chairs (there was no fire). In the distance a loud howl was heard, seemingly coming from miles away, the dogs across the lake started barking. Witness thought bear had been hit by car. But 3 or 4 howls later of 15 second duration and echoing around the walls of the valley, not sure what it was. Then there were sounds of perhaps of "somebody talking backward English" through a megaphone. This lasted about five minutes, but none of the "words" could be understood. This time we thought perhaps a crew was hunting for the creature that made the first howls. The lake was frozen and there were about three feet of snow on the ground. Elevation7000ft.
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Precip: HUNTINGTON LAKE 7.31 7.22 6.30 3.46 1.99 0.58 0.35 0.21 1.16 1.81 4.40 6.04 40.82
Temp: HUNTINGTON LAKE 33.59 33.83 34.73 38.82 45.43 53.57 60.60 60.34 55.54 47.93 39.61 34.77 44.78
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Snow: HUNTINGTON LAKE 36.1 36.9 38.6 24.3 4.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.6 13.9 29.4 185.2
Ecology: FULL MOON, 3 FT SNOW ON GROUND

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IBS Report #: 1064

Location: FRESNO county, CA. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +037˚ 14' N
Longitude: 119˚ 12' W
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Year: 1995
Time: 11 PM
Elevation: 7000

Data Source: TR93
Credibility: 1
Locality: NEAR HUNTINGTON LAKE
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: D.M.

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: VOCALIZATION

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CA FRESNO BFRO 1995 TR93 7040FT 371354N 1191406W * D.M., in Feb. 1995, around 11 PM with a near full-moon near Huntington Lake, CA, noted in the distance several miles away, a loud Howling sound, each howl lasting about 15 sec. There were 4-5 howls in five minutes and sounded almost like someone speaking backward English with a megaphone. There was three feet on snow on the ground and cabins around the frozen lake, elevation 7000 ft.
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Precip: HUNTINGTON LAKE 7.31 7.22 6.30 3.46 1.99 0.58 0.35 0.21 1.16 1.81 4.40 6.04 40.82
Temp: HUNTINGTON LAKE 33.59 33.83 34.73 38.82 45.43 53.57 60.60 60.34 55.54 47.93 39.61 34.77 44.78
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Snow: HUNTINGTON LAKE 36.1 36.9 38.6 24.3 4.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.6 13.9 29.4 185.2
Ecology: NEAR FULL MOON, 3 FT SNOW ON GROUND

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IBS Report #: 1992

Location: GLENN county, CA. United States

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +039˚ 41' N
Longitude: 122˚ 11' W
Day: 15-16
Month: SEPT
Year: 1990
Time: 1 PM
Elevation: 138

Data Source: TR33 JAN94
Credibility: 4
Locality: 20 NE WILLOWS ON I-5
Researcher: MIKE JAY
Witness: JON PURCELL

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 6.5 FT DARK BF SEEN, 16 IN TRACKS

Sighting Text:
TR33 Mike Jay report, 11/19/93. September 15 or 16, 1990, 1:00 PM, about 20 miles NE of Willows, CA (on I- 5 north of Sacramento). Witness was Jon Purcell, 40, an industria1 mechanic from Springfield, OR. Jon said he was being escorted on a walking tour of a remote corner of a friend's property, when he and his companions, the owners, heard semi-automatic gunfire, apparently coming from the leeward side of a nearby hill, just out of their line of sight. Fearing that some of the friend's free-ranging cattle were being shot by persons unknown, the trio returned to their parked jeep to retrieve their own weapons, then began ascending the hill to investigate. The men, walking several yards abreast, were 2/3's of the way to the top of the 60 foot slope when, informant says, a large, hairy upright biped suddenly burst into view through the scrub-oak cover and ran towards them at a tremendous speed, passing between the first two men at a distance of less than 20 yards and actually "brushing" the informant as it leapt by, allowing the startled man a split-second, but nonetheless, eye-to-eye view. Informant describes a creature approximately 6'5", 450-500 pounds, very heavy, muscular, "weightlifters' " build, exceptionally long arms and legs, completely covered with hair, except for face, with 2 1/2-3 inch coarse dark (thought to be black or very dark brown) hair. He also describes a "short, powerful" neck, a pointed or "crowned" head with a receding (sloped) forehead; small flat ears, a semi-prognatious, "half-human, half ape" face with extremely deepset dark round eyes, a large flat nose, flaring nostrils, and large, square, yellowish human-like teeth. Creature was only in view a matter of seconds as it ran past the group, bounded down the slope and disappeared in heavy brush before the witnesses could react. Informant estimates that it ran "2 to 3 times faster" than a man. He is quite clear, however, on what he believes he and the others saw. Informant further states that after recovering their wits the party proceeded to the presumed location of the gunshots and found no other humans present, but did discover muddy vibram bootprints and several discarded 7.62 NATO (.308 WCF) cartridge cases, leading to speculation that the creature observed was frightened by"the gunfire and/or actually being shot at at the time of the occurrence. Six tracks of five-toes imprints 16 inches long were examined. Odor not noticed, when the creature passed. The sketch on the cover of this issue is a drawing of the Purcell creature, described to artist Terry Ring, who gives his permission to reproduce.
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Precip: WILLOWS 3.5 2.8 2.2 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.9 2.1 3.1 17.1
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Ecology: SCRUB OAK

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IBS Report #: 1394

Location: HUMBOLDT county, CA. United States

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +041˚ 14' N
Longitude: 123˚ 39' W
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Data Source: TR19
Credibility: 2
Locality: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (BLUFF CK)
Researcher: HANK DESHARD
Witness: HANK DESCARD

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: BF TOSS OIL DRUMS

Sighting Text:
Hank DeShard also recalled the original northern California story of the tossing of the 55 gallon oil drums. He had been logging out of Willow Creek when the Incident happened, and went up to take a look. Hank said one of the drums thrown from 20 feet away hit a tree and took a big chip out of it. '
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Precip: ORLEANS 9.7 7.0 6.5 3.1 2.2 0.8 0.2 0.3 0.9 3.7 7.4 10.0 51.8
Temp: ORLEANS 42.8 47.1 50.9 55.8 61.2 67.1 73.4 72.7 66.9 58.1 49.1 43.3 57.4
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 669

Location: HUMBOLDT county, CA. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +040˚ 47' N
Longitude: 124˚ 08' W
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Year: 1934
Time:
Elevation: 85

Data Source: TR76
Credibility: 1
Locality: NEAR HUMBOLDT
Researcher: Dr. Jim Karl
Witness: NEIGHBOR

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: TRACKS

Sighting Text:
CA HUMBOLDT 1934 TR#76 * Dr. Jim Karl, April 5, 1998. I was talking with a neighbor of my dad. She was born in 1915 and was raised on a farm in northern California. She is one of the nicest, most wholesome little old ladies that I've run across. Her husband had a PhD in physics and worked on the Manhattan project, and two of her sons are medical doctors. She was telling me that she had seen Bigfoot prints near Humboldt, CA, in 1934, and that the local newspaper had printed a number of articles over the years, pre-dating the nation-wide news frenzy in 1958 with the Bluff Creek footprints. There seems to be a lot of interest in the history of Bigfoot sightings, and it would seem that, if local newspaper records in Humboldt County could be found, some very old sightings would be there. It would be interesting to know what they called the creatures back then.
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 1167

Location: HUMBOLDT county, CA. United States

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +041˚ 22' N
Longitude: 123˚ 44' W
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Year: 1940S
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Data Source: TR97
Credibility: 1
Locality: ONION LAKE
Researcher: IRVIN GRENZ
Witness: J.W. ROWLAND

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: BF DENTS COLLAPSED TIN ROOF, ODOR

Sighting Text:
CA HUMBOLDT 1940S TR97 412243N 1234453W Irvin Grenz told a story at lunch of a catskinner near Onion Lake (near Bluff Ck) in the 1940’s, named J.W. Rowland, that had a camp near an old collapsed tin cabin. One night there was a terrible smell and the creature dashed across the tin, “rattle rattle rattle.” The next morning dents were found in the tin where something large had stepped.
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Precip: ORLEANS 9.7 7.0 6.5 3.1 2.2 0.8 0.2 0.3 0.9 3.7 7.4 10.0 51.8
Temp: ORLEANS 42.8 47.3 50.7 54.9 60.8 67.5 72.9 72.7 67.6 59.0 48.6 42.8 57.4
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 326

Location: HUMBOLDT county, CA. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +040˚ 52' N
Longitude: 123˚ 57' W
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Month: SPRING
Year: 1958
Time:
Elevation: 150

Data Source: “On The Track of Bigfoot;”1974; Marion T. Place,”
Credibility: 3
Locality: Mad River near Korbel; 40 west Willow Creek,
Researcher: Place
Witness: UNK

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: TRACKS FOUND

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Tracks,Mad River near Korbel; 40 west Willow Creek, Same year as Jerry Crew reports tracks at Bluff Creek, “On The Track of Bigfoot;”1974; Marion T. Place,” inches
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Precip: KORBEL 10.45.87.53.32.10.80.20.51.13.09.710.554.9Korbel
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Ecology: Missing

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IBS Report #: 328

Location: HUMBOLDT county, CA. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +040˚ 52' N
Longitude: 123˚ 57' W
Day:
Month: SPRING
Year: 1958
Time:
Elevation: 15

Data Source: On The Track of Bigfoot;”1974; Marion T. Place”,
Credibility: 3
Locality: Korbel River
Researcher: Place
Witness: UNK

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: Tracks seen in spring,

Sighting Text:
Tracks,Korbel River, Tracks seen in spring, p 38;;“On The Track of Bigfoot;”1974; Marion T. Place”, inches
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Precip: KORBEL 10.4 5.8 7.5 3.3 2.1 0.8 0.2 0.5 1.1 3.0 9.7 10.5 54.9
Temp: Big Bar RS 40.56 44.38 48.62 53.57 60.20 68.25 75.43 73.67 68.20 58.01 46.86 40.90 56.45
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Ecology: Missing