CaliforniaReport1988

1988 CALIFORNIA SIGHTING

My brother who was 28 at the time and a few friends were sitting
around his garage talking about Bigfoot. One of his friends said
he should contact of friend of his who saw a creature he had
never seen before and had scared him and his son badly a week
before. Apparently, this guy had never heard of bigfoot.
My brother and a friend of his went to see this man and ask him
about the experience. Here is what he had to say:The week
before on a Saturday evening at dusk he was riding back from
the hills which were across the road from his home. (He lived in
Simi Valley, which is North of Los Angeles and the San
Fernando Valley. The area he is talking about is owned by Getty
Oil and is pure wilderness. About a half mile in it is covered with
weed covered meadows, trees and hills and it goes all the way
to Bakersfield). He and his son were riding on ATV's back from
the hills when his son ask him who that was running along side
of them. The man looked and about 15-20 yards away running
parallel to them was a huge creature covered in hair about 8 or 9
feet tall. When they stopped the ATV, the creature stopped and
when they started up again the creature started running with
them as if he were curious and playing a game. The man
panicked and gunned the ATV. Within a few yards they hit a
ditch and flew off the ATV Not stopping to get back on the man
grabbed his son and ran the last 200 yards to his home not even
looking back to see what happened to the creature. The next
morning he went back to retrieve his ATV and left the area
immediately. My brother organized a group of friends to go to
the area the following weekend in hopes of seeing something. A
couple took rifles and thank God my father went along to keep
them from shooting themselves or some poor harmless person.
Anyway, they went out right after dark. The fields were full of
night sounds;crickets, bugs, dogs barking from near by
neighbors, rabbits running around, etc. They roamed for a
couple of hours and saw nothing,heard nothing or smelled
nothing unusual. My brother talked about 5 or 6 of them into
going back out the next night which was a Saturday. They went
out about the same time but things were quite different. No
noise at all, no bugs, no barking dogs and no rabbits. My brother
said it was eerie. They roamed around the same place as the
night before, through the meadows, down into a small valley and
nothing. They kept flashlights flashing in all directions hoping to
catch sight of something but to no avail. As they were about to
turn back and head for their trucks and cars, one of the guys
said he thought the light from his flash light caught something
about 150 yards away. They all trained their lights on a large
rock that sits next to one of the dirt construction roads on the oil
field. They saw nothing. After several minutes they turned their
lights away and they could see something silhouetted against
the night sky. They turned their flash lights back and caught
something jump back behind the rock. They tried this several
times back and forth, until they could see a head looking out
around a corner some 6 feet above the ground. Two of them
decided to go over and see what it was. As they approached,
the creature dashed away from the rock and down over the hill
on the dirt road. As the creature was so far away it was
impossible for them to follow it. The road was packed dirt so no
foot prints were visible. The group all gathered together and
talked one at a time as to what they had seen or thought they
had seen. Most said it was a large hairy creature that stood on
two legs and jumped back and forth behind the rock to avoid the
lights from the flash lights. It peeked at them from behind a
boulder but would not come out. My brother went out the next
morning to try to find any evidence to back up what they said
they saw. My brother is in security and had police officer
training so he knew what to do. He looked all over the road
coming and going but could not find any prints. He followed the
road a long way back towards the hill then it crosses a small dry
creek bed. This creek bed is about 3 feet across and about 2
feet deep. Just enough that a normal person could not step
across and keep walking. He followed several paths through the
weeds where people, animals and dirt bikes had been. Going
across the creek he saw nothing but coming back the other way
he caught sight of a print where something had pushed off to
cross the creek in a single stride. He examined it closer and saw
where it was a footprint with 5 toes and pressed into the ground
a good 2 inches. He took a ruler to measure with and a camera.
The footprint measured a few inches longer than the ruler a
good 14 or 15 inches long a 6 inches wide. This was no normal
kids bare footprint, but something much bigger. He took several
pictures with the ruler and his own shoe next to the foot print.
He reported the sighting to the Bigfoot Society in Washington
and an investigator came out to see him from Cal State
University, Fullerton. He gave the copies of the pictures he had
developed and they taped an interview with him. I don't know if
he took them to the site. He called me later that week and I went
out on a work day and he showed me the location and what was
left of the foot print which he had covered with an old hub cap
that he located near by. I have seen the area which stretches for
miles and miles of uninhabited land with only a few oil wells.
Anything could live here and not be known if it only came out at
night. I believe they saw a Sasquatch/Bigfoot. I also believe that
it could still be out therein those hills.