Subject: Bigfoot 3. 
Feb. 11, 2012.

  This talks about a Bigfoot who didn't want to let go.

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Orleans, California
Mike Burke, Buck Ferguson and Bill Mueller find BF tracks with a 5-foot
stride beyond Twin Lakes Turnoff at Camp Creek near Orleans, California.

Benjamin Wilder sees a BF at night east of Orleans, California.
March 1960. Ivan Marx finds BF tracks near the lookout on Offield Mountain.
1952. A man sees a Bigfoot on a dirt road north of Orleans that comes out
at the mouth of Bear Creek and goes through Bear Valley. After driving on, 
he
later stops and gets out of the car. The BF comes toward him menacingly,
then turns and stalks down the road, then suddenly charges back to attack
the car as the man drives away. The BF holds onto the car for 200 yards 
before
letting go.
Happy Camp, California 1886. Jack Dover and others see Bigfoot between
Happy Camp and the Marble Mountains.

Scott's Valley, California
June 9, 1980. Dave Wilhelm and Ben Larson see a 12 foot Bigfoot in Scott's
Valley. The following day they find BF tracks.

Yreka, California
Mid-1960's. Henry Dierkoph and 2 others see several sets of BF tracks near
Yreka, California.

Siskiyou County, California
June, 1969. Bob Hardesty and Dick Carroll find BF tracks along
the Klamath River in Siskiyou County.

Mt. Shasta, California
1956. Mrs. J. Pomray sees a BF run across Interstate 5 just
north of Mt. Shasta.
Summer, 1962 Bonnie Feldman reports watching a female Bigfoot
give birth in the heat of the afternoon by pine tree at the base
of it's upturned roots. She watched from the porch of her trailer
while camping on the Eastern most side of Mt. Shasta.

1963. A man falls off a bluff near Mr. Shasta while deer hunting
and is badly hurt.
A 9 foot BF carries him 2 or 3 miles to safety.

July, 1973. A naturalist watches an 8 foot BF for 45 minutes in the
Castle Craggie Mountains.

Unknown date at the 8000 ft level of Mt. Shasta two men said they
had seen Bigfoot while drinking beer in the Bunny Flats Campground.
They said Bigfoot had come out of the forest knocking off a branch
at the 19 foot level.
Bigfoot gave them a crystal and went back into the woods. Charlie
Tom, a medicine man, said if you were in trouble in the woods to
sing the Bigfoot song and BF would help you.

1980 Mt. Shasta
hunters watched through their cross-hairs as a Bigfoot lumbered
across an open field and disappeared into the woods. He appeared
to be 8 ft tall, weighing nearly 800 lbs.

1970 Bigfoot is sighted by vacationers crossing the road late at
night near Mt. Shasta.

1986 Mt. Shasta a team of naturalists report seeing a Bigfoot cut
across a field of berries through a thorny thicket at day break.

1987 Obrien Campgrounds near Mt. Shasta Lake Bigfoot wanders
through the area oblivious to a raucous volley ball game being
played by retired fire fighters.

August 10, 1962.
Joseph Wattenbarger sees a BF in the lava beds 30 miles east of
McCloud which is near Mt. Shasta base.

Willow Creek, California
1967. Russell Summerville sees a 9 foot BF walk 50 feet along
Highway 299 one half mile west of Willow Creek and then go
into the woods.

Mike Fordon, while sleeping in his Dodge van at Gray's Falls
Campground wakes up at about midnight because a BF is
kicking his tires and rocking his van violently.
Mike sees the BF's hairy chest, chin and hand through the van's
windows.
The 8 foot BF continues to harass the van for 2 hours, until Mike
Blows the horn.

Dave Zebo follows a set of BF tracks up Weaver Bally Mountain.

1936 Dave Zebo sees BF tracks on Mt. Bally heading over the mountain.

Salyer, California
July 11, 1968. A BF walks past a family camping by the Trinity
River near Salyer.

Weaverville, Trinity County, California
1966 Larry Browning sees a BF near his campsite north of Weaverville
in the Trinity Alps.

April 6, 1968. After 2 more visits to the same campsite with no luck
seeing another BF,
Larry Browning sees a BF wading the South Fork of the Salmon River.
The next day, a female BF follows him for a half hour on a hike, then
charges him.

April 8, 1968 At the same campground, Mike Melton sees a BF leaning
over the river to get a drink of water.

April 2, 1966. Nick Campbell sees a Bigfoot searching through the trash
cans at a campsite north of Weaverville in the Trinity Alps. The next
day, he sees the BF again 3 miles west of camp and spends a half
hour playing hide and seek with it. Several other campers see the
same Bigfoot. It raids the trash can two more nights and is seen one
more time.

July 1969.
Don Ballard and a companion riding horseback see a BF in the Trinity
Alps near Trinity Center.

1958. While driving on Highway 299 east of Weaverville, 2 doctors see
a Bf cross the highway at night.

Redding, California
October 8, 1972. Randy Norton and Steve Gillespie see a BF cross
Clear Creek at the Placer Street Bridge near Redding.

Round Mountain, California (South of Mt. Shasta)
January 6, 1971.
Bigfoot tracks 18 inches long and 7 inches wide are found in the
yard of a home on Fenders Ferry Road at Round Mountain.

1947. Mr. and Mrs. Russ Tribble see two Bigfoot south of Fall River
Mills and also find their tracks.

Hyampom, California

 --------1963. Bob Titmus finds and casts 3 sets of tracks near Hyampom.

May, 1963. Sylvester McCoy finds BF tracks near Hyampom.

April, 1970. Buzz McLaughlin see a 9 foot Bigfoot at Manzanita
Ranch School, Hyampom.

Fall, 1963. A man sees Bigfoot tracks heading south of the Hyampom
area.

Wildwood, California
July 4, 1969. Eldon Brackett see a 7 foot Bigfoot with 16 inch tracks
and a 4 foot stride north of Wildwood.

January 1966. Bob Kelly and Archie Bradshaw see a Bigfoot peering
into their cabin window. Bob fires his shotgun at the Bigfoot and
thinks he hits it. They find 18 inch tracks in the leading into Hayfork
Creek from Wildwood.

June, 1969. Ben Foster and several others see a 6 foot Bigfoot fighting
with dogs at the Wildwood Inn.

May 14, 1970. Archie Buckley sees a 7 foot Bigfoot with 15 inch tracks
at Stuart Gap, south of Wildwood.

Platina, California
Winter, 1966. After a 2 day absence from their house 2 miles west of
Platina, Mr. and Mrs. Hampton find their door broken off at the hinges.
They find 18 inch Bigfoot tracks in the snow.

Saddle Camp, California (Yolla Bolla)
August 1964. A man finds 12 inch and 14 inch BF tracks high
up the north side of Low Gap in the north Yolla Bolla near Saddle
Camp.  The tracks are in 3 different places several miles apart.

July 14, 1969. George Haas and John Dana find -  mile of Bigfoot
tracks on a trail at West Low Gap in the Yolla Bolla Mountains
going to the East Fork of the South Fork of the Trinity River. The
tracks are 16 inches long and the stride is 3 feet.
Covelo, California 1961. Bob Titmus sees tracks of several different
Bigfeet northeast of Covelo.

November, 1962. Bob Titmus sees tracks of several Bigfeet
northeast of Covelo again.

Fort Bragg, California
June, 1962. Robert Hatfield gets up to investigate barking dogs
at his house in Fort Bragg and sees the head and shoulders of a
Bigfoot above a 6 foot fence. He returns to the house to tell
Bud Jensen, but when they return, it is gone. Bud goes back
for his gun while Robert rounds the corner of the porch and walk
right into the Bigfoot. He was knocked to the ground and
scrambled to the house on his hands and knees. Bud sees the
middle of the Bigfoot go by the window and tries to close the
door, but the Bigfoot holds it open! Shotgun in hand, Bus says
"let it in and I'll get it, " but the Bigfoot lets go of the door
and walks away. A muddy hand print on the door is 11 inches
long, although the fingers are quite stubby.

l977 JS reports hearing dogs chasing a bipedal creature
through the woods along Little Lake Road and the discovery
of other animals found disemboweled.

Oroville, Central California
Summer, 1969. Ken Coon finds and photographs Bigfoot tracks
near Oroville.

July, 1969. Homer Stickley see a Bigfoot in his yard in rural Oroville.

July 17, 1969. Charles and Kevin Jackson see an 8 foot female
Bigfoot by an outhouse while burning rabbit entrails in their
backyard on Cherokee Road a few miles south of Oroville.

February 28, 1963. Lennart Strand and Alden Hoover see a 10-foot
Bigfoot from a plane near Sonora, between Confidence and
Cherokee Valley Road. They take color photographs, but the
pictures turn out blurry.

Summer, 1969. A man sees a Bigfoot run across the Feather River
Highway near Oroville.
September 3, 1975. Mark Karr drives his car into a tree to avoid
hitting a 7 ft Bigfoot near Oroville.

October 31, 1969. Wes Strang sees a Bigfoot outside his
home near Oroville.

April 16, 1970. Homer -tickley finds 11 inch Bigfoot tracks
near Oroville.

January, 1970. Ken Coon finds Bigfoot tracks 15 inches
long and 9 inches wide near Oroville.

Fall, 1969. Ron Sanders sees 2 Bigfoot turning over rocks
in French Creek across the reservoir from Oroville and
eating something.

On the Feather River report:
October, 1969. Charles Mauldin sees a Bigfoot running on
an abandoned road above the Middle Fork of the Feather River.

Stirling City, California
April 16, 1969. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Behme see a Bigfoot limp
across the road between Paradise and Stirling City.

Twain, California
July, 1969. A teenage boy and 2 girls see a Bigfoot crouched in the
middle of the road while driving home from a movie in Twain.

July, 1969. Lester Orlinger swerves to miss a Bigfoot in the
middle of the road near Twain while coming from Quincy.

Part 3.

John  Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com