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Bigfoot sighting near Mammoth Lakes, California
Sep 1972 · Mammoth Lakes, California, United States
A hiker on a September 1972 descent from Barney Lake near Mammoth Lakes, California, saw a hairy, upright creature digging in a meadow about 12 feet away.
Facts
- Reported as
- Hiking boy has close encounter in High Sierra
- Date
- Sep 1972
- Place
- Mammoth Lakes, California, United States
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- 37.374, -118.398
- Located within
- 3.0 km
- Time
- about 03:00, daylight
- Witness was
- backpacking
- Witnesses
- 1
- Creatures
- 1
- Distance
- 3.7 m (12 ft)
- Duration
- 6 s
- Height
- 2.4 m (8 ft)
- Described as
- mixed hair, biped
- Behaviour
- standing
- Traces
- broken branches, hair
- In the account
- alone, branches breaking, cave or rocks, childhood memory, felt fear, field or clearing, hair found, likened to ape, on trail, reported years later, ruled out bear, searched after, told no one, very tall, walked upright, witness fled, witness froze
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 3 independent (6 listings)
Sources
- BFRORead the report
- BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
- BFRO (KML copy)Read the report
- Bigfoot EncountersRead the report
- ManganiRead the report
- BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report
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