Bigfoot sighting near Callahan, California
Jul 1966 · Callahan, California, United States
In early July 1966, a summer camp hiking group near East Boulder Lake, California, saw a hairy upright creature about 15 m away that ran upslope.
The account itself raises a hoax or a misidentification.
Facts
- Reported as
- Sighting at East Boulder Lake
- Date
- Jul 1966
- Place
- Callahan, California, United States
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- 41.227, -122.782
- Light
- daylight
- Witness was
- hiking
- Witnesses
- 29
- Distance
- 15 m (50 ft)
- Duration
- 60 s
- Height
- 1.7 m (6 ft)
- Described as
- reddish hair, long length, biped
- Behaviour
- running, standing, walking, watching
- Sounds
- tree break
- In the account
- at camp, branches breaking, campfire, cave or rocks, eyes seen, face seen, felt fear, female features, field or clearing, long strides, looked at witness, multiple, near water, ridge or mountain, smell, smell musky, strange lights, vanished, very tall, walked upright
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 2 independent (4 listings)
Sources
- BFRORead the report
- BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
- ManganiRead the report
- BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report
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- Backpacker sighting off the PCT in the Marble Mountains Wilderness
- Bigfoot sighting near Trinity Center, California
- Bigfoot sighting near Orleans, California
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