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Bigfoot sighting near Junction City, California
Jul 1972 · Junction City, California, United States
Two campers in the Trinity Alps near Papoose Lake heard a large two-legged animal walk around their camp and scream for hours during a midnight storm in July 1972.
Facts
- Reported as
- Papoose Lake in the Trinity Alps Primitive Area
- Date
- Jul 1972
- Place
- Junction City, California, United States
- Evidence
- vocal
- Point
- 40.976, -123.068
- Time
- about 00:00, night
- Witness was
- camping
- Witnesses
- 2
- Creatures
- 1
- Distance
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Duration
- 4.0 h
- Described as
- heavy, biped
- Behaviour
- vocalizing, walking
- Sounds
- scream, tree break
- In the account
- at camp, branches breaking, circled camp, felt fear, near water, nothing found after, raining, reported years later, ruled out bear, scream, searched after, walked upright, windy, witness fled
- 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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