Bigfoot sighting near Sawyer's Bar, California

1977 · Sawyer's Bar, California, United States

Two campers in the Marble Mountains Wilderness near Sawyers Bar, California, heard logs and rocks being hurled and a biped's footsteps and breathing near camp at night in summer 1977.

Facts

Reported as

Campers have frightening experience in the Marble Mountains Wilderness

Date

1977

Place

Sawyer's Bar, California, United States

Evidence

vocal

Point

41.319, -123.178

Light

night

Witness was

backpacking

Witnesses

2

Creatures

1

Distance

4.6 m (15 ft)

Duration

15 min

Height

2.1 m (7 ft)

Described as

biped

Behaviour

approaching, hiding, standing, throwing, vocalizing, walking

Sounds

footsteps

In the account

answered call, approached, at camp, bipedal footsteps, campfire, cave or rocks, felt fear, felt watched, flashlight, growl, heavy breathing, near water, nothing found after, returned to spot, ruled out bear, searched after, threw rocks, threw sticks, walked away calmly, walked upright, witness yelled, woken by it

Account

firsthand

Sources

2 independent (5 listings)

Sources

• BFRORead the report
• BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
• BFRO (KML copy)Read the report
• ManganiRead the report
• BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report

Nearby sightings

• Bigfoot sighting near Sawyers Bar, California24 Jan 1993 · 5 km
• Woods-wise miner hears two unidentifiable growlsJun 1975 · 5 km
• Eighteen campers find hut; videotape distressed bigfoot walking down mountain ridgeJul 2000 · 6 km
• Backpacker sighting off the PCT in the Marble Mountains Wilderness3 Aug 1998 · 11 km
• Campers observed by unknown animalAug 1984 · 11 km
• Bigfoot sighting near Orleans, CaliforniaDec 1968 · 12 km

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