Bigfoot reports in California
625 cases, best-documented first. Page 4 of 7.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Bigfoot · Hoopa, California · 2014
The narrator reports a possible bigfoot encounter near Hoopa, California in 2014.
Bigfoot · Azusa, California · 1976
Witness reports hearing a loud scream and seeing glowing eyes of a large creature while night hunting in 1976.
Bigfoot · Tahoma, California · 2000
Witness reports seeing a two-legged, hairy creature running across the road that resembled a Sasquatch.
Bigfoot · Crescent City, California · 1975
Witness reports seeing a large bipedal creature on a ridge and finding large footprints in the sand near a river while traveling north.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1964
Witness reports seeing a big ape looking at them while going down to a spring on the mountain along the Eel river.
Bigfoot · Plumas County, California
Witness reports hearing a roar outside their tent in DAR State Forest that woke them up with terror, leading them to believe they had angered a Sasquatch.
Bigfoot · Mendocino County, California · 2006
Witness reports hearing wood knocking and tree breaking after making a Bigfoot call in the Redwood forest.
Bigfoot · Crescent City, California · 1993
Witness reports hearing three loud, echoing screams at dawn that were not human, bear, or wildcat.
Bigfoot · Mono County, California · 1977
Witness and his brother report seeing a large creature moving through dense bushes at dusk in 1977, which the brother describes as having a large dark-brown head.
Bigfoot · Bridgeport, California · 2005
Witness reports a large black humanoid-like creature with no neck moving smoothly across a meadow near Leavitt Meadows.
Bigfoot · Ducor, California · 2008
Witness reports hearing a loud whooping exchange between at least two entities in a dense redwood forest.
Bigfoot · Sonora, California · 1983
Witness reports seeing a huge, man-like figure that emerged from brush near an unfinished cabin and walked across a clearing while making a huffing noise.
Bigfoot · Nevada County, California · 2004
A retired law enforcement officer reports seeing two large, black, hair-covered humanoid figures walking across a river in a ravine near Donner Pass.
Bigfoot · Riverside County, California · 2000
Witness reports hearing a large creature breaking branches and smelling like a dying wet dog near Lake Hemet, later finding a steel trash bin pushed over with a circular dent.
Bigfoot · Manton, California · 1987
Witness reports hearing strange howls from 9 PM to midnight several times a week while living in Manton, CA, which were later identified as matching the 'Ohio howl' sound.
Bigfoot · Greenfield, California · 1993
Witness reports seeing an 8-foot tall, wide creature walking up a hillside near Abbott lakes that stared at him before walking away.
Bigfoot · Foresthill, California · 2000
Witness reports hearing a resonant moan or wail near Foresthill that seemed to be calling to another entity, which unnerved him and his father.
Bigfoot · Desolation Wilderness, California
Witness reports hearing deep vocalizations and bipedal footsteps near their tent late at night.
Bigfoot · Burney, California · 1994
Witness reports seeing a huge reddish-brown ape-like creature walking on bent legs next to a highway sign.
Bigfoot · Twain Harte, California · 2006
Witness reports hearing a deep growl and a progressive scream from a creature in the trees near their house.
Bigfoot · Frazier Park, California · 1992
Witness reports seeing a dark brownish, vertical creature with a human-like face in a ravine near Frazier Park, which then fled before their companion could see it.
Bigfoot · Yreka, California · 1944
Witness reports seeing three strange animals with long necks and hanging arms near McKinney Creek in 1944, later identifying them as Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Fresno County, California · 1973
Witness reports finding a clear bigfoot footprint in wet sand near their campsite during Labor Day weekend.
Bigfoot · Arnold, California · 2001
Witness reports hearing repeated eerie bellowing screams attributed to a sasquatch while camping in the Sierra foothills.
Bigfoot · Desert Hot Springs, California · 1979
Witness reports seeing a huge light tan colored biped with soft blowing hair in the northern desert above Palm Springs, CA., which froze when illuminated by headlights before retreating into the dark.
Bigfoot · Alpine County, California · 1983
Witness reports hearing a loud two-tone whistle from ground level while cross-country running near Lower Blue and Twin Lake, which sounded like a mammal but was not identified.
Bigfoot · Twain Harte, California · 2001
Witness reports hearing an indescribable scream and seeing rustling in the forest near his home, resulting in one of his dogs disappearing.
Bigfoot · Plumas County, California · 1995
Witness reports being stalked by an agile, bipedal creature downslope of the trail for several hours while working alone.
Bigfoot · Mount Baldy, California · 2025
Witness reports hearing an extremely loud wail or scream from the end of Mt. Baldy road while preparing to hike.
Bigfoot · Sonoma County, California · 1980
Witness reports seeing a humanoid figure with brown eyes and a big nose holding items in its left arm at a youth camp near the Russian River.
Bigfoot · Willow Creek, California · 2010
Witness reports seeing a large, powerful animal that ran for cover after being observed, which was later seen on video tracking them back to camp.
Bigfoot · Colfax, California · 2003
Witnesses report a large boulder was thrown from the woods towards their campsite with such velocity that they believe no human could have done it.
Bigfoot · Del Norte County, California · 2001
Witness reports hearing a loud, echoing sound resembling a mix of a human cat-call and a cow moo while inside a travel trailer in mid-December 2001.
Bigfoot · El Dorado County, California · 2001
Witness reports finding large human-like tracks with only four toes in the Sugar Pine area the following year.
Bigfoot · Crescent City, California · 2006
Witness reports seeing a huge shadow and a giant creature resembling a gorilla but much larger while driving near Collier Tunnel in 2006.
Bigfoot · Hoopa, California · 2021
Witness reports hearing a deep vibrating howl near her home in Hoopa, California, which she identifies as Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Little Truckee River, California · 1984
Witness reports seeing a large bipedal creature leaning over a pine tree near their campsite before it ran away.
Bigfoot · Tulare County, California · 1986
Witness reports seeing a bigfoot running on two legs among Joshua trees near Kennedy Meadows while driving at dusk.
Bigfoot · Twin Bridges, California · 1993
Witness reports seeing a large, dark brown to black bipedal creature walking on two feet across the snow near Lake Aloha in Desolation Wilderness.
Bigfoot · Avery, California · 2024
Witness reports seeing a huge light brown animal estimated at 8ft tall running away in the back woods of their cabin.
Bigfoot · Dorrington, California · 1990
Witness reports that a heavy creature ran through their camp at night screaming with a high-pitched, female-like voice.
Bigfoot · Panamint Valley, California
The narrator heard booming vocalizations from near Panamint Mountain in Death Valley that sounded like two primates.
Bigfoot · Shasta County, California · 1986
Witness reports hearing and smelling a creature circling their truck for hours, noting it sounded like something walking on two legs and left disturbed pine needles and broken limbs high up in trees.
Bigfoot · Viola, California · 2022
Witness reports hearing loud yells or howls from multiple directions and his son encountering a large, heavy-footed bipedal creature stalking their tent at night.
Bigfoot · Pollock Pines, California · 1976
Witness reports family members found a large footprint and tasted blood near a fallen tree while walking on a trail in the mountains.
Bigfoot · San Diego County, California · 1982
Witness reports seeing a tall, dark, bulky figure standing silently in a meadow near Camp Pendleton.
Bigfoot · Tulare County, California · 2019
The narrator reports hearing a long roar/scream that sounded like a cross between an animal and a human, which they later identified as similar to sasquatch sounds.
Bigfoot · Shasta County, California · 1984
Witness reports finding large, wide, flat-footed human-like footprints in a creek bed and later hearing loud screams and growls from the woods.
Bigfoot · Crescent City, California · 2008
Witness reports a strong feeling of being watched and seeing something move in the distance, followed by hearing two whoops from that area.
Bigfoot · Orick, California · 1993
Witness reports seeing a hair-covered, silver-gray creature with human-like hands and fingernails drinking from a pool while on horseback.
Bigfoot · Shaver Lake, California · 2006
Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal, furry creature stalking them on the Maxsom trail and later hearing noises at Hobler Lake.
Bigfoot · Watsonville, California · 1980
Witness reports seeing a huge, brown-haired humanoid walking on the side of Hecker Pass in early fall 1980.
Bigfoot · Bass Lake, California · 1988
Witness reports seeing a Bigfoot with jet black fur near Bass Lake while hunting.
Bigfoot · Sunland, California · 2002
Witness reports hearing loud banging and screaming while hiking in a canyon, accompanied by swaying trees and finding a dead squirrel over their boot track.
Bigfoot · Orick, California · 2003
Witness reports finding three distinct, large footprints with five toes and no arch on the banks of Redwood Creek.
Bigfoot · Shingletown, California · 1991
Witness reports hearing a yell similar to bigfoot documentaries that silenced local dogs while on a honeymoon trip in August 1991.
Bigfoot · Holtville, California · 1999
Witness reports seeing a 7 or 8 feet tall grayish brown creature that ran in front of his truck and made a grunt sound.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 2007
Witness reports hearing loud, prolonged screams with human-like enunciation every morning between August 11 and August 18, 2007.
Bigfoot · Pinecrest Peak, California · 1994
Witness reports hearing a scream and seeing footprints with two large feet and a big toe, followed by a huge thing running fast across the meadow.
Bigfoot · San Diego County, California · 1998
Witnesses report seeing strange, blurred footprints near a creek inflow that appeared after they had crossed, which a Border Patrol agent later referred to as 'Little Foot'.
Bigfoot · Ponderosa, California · 2002
Witness reports his eight-year-old daughter saw a large, hairy, bearded humanoid with long arms and a lumbering gait near the packing station after hearing a whooping call.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1961
Witness reports hearing a large bipedal creature circling their tent and later hearing a loud scream while camping on the Hoopa Reservation.
Bigfoot · Silver Fork American River, California · 2009
Witness reports seeing an 8 to 10 foot hairy creature standing on the side of Highway 50 at night.
Bigfoot · Hornbrook, California · 1998
Witness reports seeing a huge, dark brown, hairy humanoid standing across the river near Hornbrook before it drank water and disappeared.
Bigfoot · San Bernardino County, California · 1963
Witness reports hearing branches snapping and seeing movement on a steep hillside while walking alone on a dark gravel road at night.
Bigfoot · El Dorado County, California · 2000
Witness reports hearing strange whooping and wailing noises in the forest at Sugar Pine Campground which they later identified as Bigfoot sounds.
Bigfoot · Tuolumne, California · 2003
Witness reports hearing brush breaking and smelling a wallowy odor while camping near Tuolumne, followed by the discovery that hung food had been taken.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1981
Witness reports a group chased an unseen, foul-smelling creature through dense brush that eventually defecated near their tent after they retreated in fear.
Bigfoot · Palomar Mountain, California
The narrator reports seeing a creature watching them from across a river before it ran off and broke a tree.
Bigfoot · Del Norte County, California · 1979
Witness reports seeing a set of red glowing eyes standing about 8 feet tall in the woods near the Smith River.
Bigfoot · Yreka, California · 2002
Witness reports seeing two large hairy bipeds, identified as Bigfoots, cross a fence on their property at night.
Bigfoot · Santa Cruz County, California
Witness reports seeing red eyes in a tree while driving near the watershed, later identified by an old man as a Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Twain Harte, California · 2003
Witness reports seeing a six-foot-six-inch tall, orange-brown haired humanoid creature with a caveman-like face on the porch of a cabin in Twain Harte.
Bigfoot · San Diego County, California · 1993
Witness reports seeing a large, six-foot-tall, brown creature walking on two legs that left scat before quickly disappearing up an embankment.
Bigfoot · Bridgeport, California
The narrator and a buddy saw a large, hairy creature with a conical head and fangs during mountain warfare training in California.
Bigfoot · Orleans;Panámnik, California · 2003
Witness reports hearing ape-like hoots and whacking sounds from the woodline while camping at Aikens Creek campground.
Bigfoot · Orleans;Panámnik, California
Witness reports finding [name]'s water intake structure busted up and blaming bigfoot for stepping on it.
Bigfoot · Round Valley, California · 2004
Witnesses report finding strange footprints in the mud along Murry Range that did not resemble bear tracks and had no claw imprints.
Bigfoot · Lee Vining, California · 2007
Witness reports hearing a loud branch snap and seeing something large move through trees near their campsite while camping on family property.
Bigfoot · Georgetown, California · 2004
Witness reports seeing a large black creature and two smaller ones near the spillway that vocalized in structured sentences before walking away.
Bigfoot · Stanislaus National Forest, California · 1978
Witness reports hearing and feeling a loud bang on their camper, concluding the creature must be at least five feet tall.
Bigfoot · Calaveras County, California · 1960s
Witness reports finding large, deep footprints shaped like human bare feet in the mud near Railroad Flat.
Bigfoot · Mount Shasta, California · 2023
Witness reports a Sasquatch encounter in the redwoods forest near Mount Shasta three years prior to the interview.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California
Witness reports seeing a creature jump off the roof of a warehouse at a fire station and flee into the darkness while alarms were sounding.
Bigfoot · Frazier Park, California · 2004
A land surveyor reports seeing a tall, thin black figure that sprinted across the road while he was driving near The Tejon Ranch.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 2003
Witness reports seeing a partial footprint of a large, humanlike foot on the steep clay roadsides near Bluff Creek Road.
Bigfoot · Etna, California · 1998
Witness reports seeing a huge, hair-covered, gorilla-like creature climbing a cliff and running along a ledge while vocalizing loudly.
Bigfoot · Weed, California · 1989
Witness reports seeing a large, dark, hairy humanoid figure moving away from their truck at a campground near Weed, California.
Bigfoot · Happy Camp, California · 1967
Witness reports seeing a huge man-like thing with long black hair running uphill while she was cleaning a screen on a holding tank.
Bigfoot · Desolation Wilderness, California
Witness reports seeing a tall, bipedal humanoid figure standing next to their tent at dawn and firing shots at it.
Bigfoot · Mariposa County, California · 1970
Witness reports seeing a tall, dark silhouette of a creature looking into their home through a window in the late 1960s.
Bigfoot · Devore, California · 2024
Witness reports hearing two distinct gibberish voices near Devore, California, on May 21, 2024, and later hearing another Sasquatch call half a mile away.
Bigfoot · Butte County, California
Witness reports finding three deep impressions resembling beds with footprints in loose dirt under a rock overhang.
Bigfoot · San Bernardino County, California · 1950
Witness reports hearing noises and seeing a muscular hairy man-like creature near Lytle Creek before finding footprints later.
Bigfoot · Plumas County, California · 1998
Witness reports hearing a horrible screaming sound identical to Bigfoot vocalizations from recordings while camping in Granite Basin.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1978
Witness reports hearing an animal on two legs come down a trail while hiding in fear, believing it to be bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Lee Vining, California · 2020
Witness reports seeing a black, bipedal creature walking parallel to them near Mono Lake at sunrise, which ducked behind tufa formations.
Bigfoot · McCloud River, California · 1987
Witness reports seeing a large shadow figure and hearing loud screams near a campfire in 1987.
Bigfoot · Coulterville, California · 1963
Witness reports seeing a Sasquach looking into their window from outside for about 10 minutes.
Bigfoot · Kern County, California · 1994
Witness reports hearing an inhuman scream and seeing movement near their campsite on the Kern River.