Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:  July 1, 2005

DATE:    1984-85
 

TIME:     Various Times and Dates
 

LOCATION:   Riverside County, California
 

TERRAIN:    Rocky Terrain, not mountainous but hilly with alot of heavy brush
 

OBSERVED:    After reading a good majority of the post placed on this site I've decided to post my (multiple) experiences. i need to add a little here as to what i feel brought on the first encounter that i had. around early 84 i had gone to a friends house for a sleep over. that night we were told a story by his older brother, about a hermit who lived in the hill behind the house. and of course curiosity killed the cat. we ventured up to the cave that he supposedly lived in. while going into this cave (AKA XXXXXs cave) i could smell death, skunk, musky, musty smell. like a wet dog smell.  it gagged a couple of us. we found a fresh bedding of straw branches from bushes. in another part of it we found the bones and decomposing carcasses of animals. (dogs, cats squirrels, etc.) later in the week, i went to bed and for what ever reason i left the blinds open in my bedroom. i think i might have been watching tv and just fell asleep. around 2:30 3:00 am i woke up to some noise outside my bedroom. at my mothers house were this occurrence happened we had a planters ledge in front of
the windows that made creaking noises when you'd lean on it and it would echo through my room. i remember opening my eyes and seeing a tall ( it filled the space of the window floor to ceiling window. probably 6.5 ft. x 3ft.). ape like looking thing staring in at me. it had a large head about 2x the size of a mans. it had a frail looking body like it had not eaten enough. well not as full looking as the other post have described it to be. still muscular but not as thick. had fur that seemed a bit shorter than that of chewy from star wars. couldn't see the color or facial features due to the sodium lights in the front yard. at first thought i was dreaming, but i could see the fog from its breath on my window. at this point being young and scared i did what most kids would do covered my face and went to sleep..

Now over the years leading up to the next occurrence. i and a long time friend, had played, hiked, rode horses, and such all over those hills and never came across anything. butt we did all that during the day. on one night we decided to go out at night and hike up to our favorite perch. it over looks the city and looks pretty neat at night. for several trips nothing ever bugged us. then one night i had thought i had seen someone trying to sneak up on us. so we got low on the rock we sit on and starting scanning the area below where i had seen`em at. every now and then we would see a silhouette pop up from the brush. from several different places. having only moonlight to see we could'nt make out anything definitive. well after a while we decided to get the hell out of there b/c we started to get the we're being watched feeling. but we were feeling it behind us not in front of us where we had seen the figures. we snuck out of there as
quickly as we could low walking and crawling to keep below the sight line of the brush. we didn't feel comfort until we had gotten back to my moms house.

the final encounter that im going to be issuing is as follows. i and my long time friend, were 21-22 yr. old and hadn't been up to our perch in a long time. i had just moved in with him and his mom upon my return to the state of california from washington. we had decided about , oh around midnight. we get up there, visit some of our favorite spots, and hike around a bit we'd come across an animal trail and followed it. we stopped at a rock that had looked interesting we noticed some pepper berries and manzanita berries in a hole in the rock looked sort of like an old indian grinding hole. the berries were probably a day old maybe less. it looked somewhat like they were beginning to be mashed. of course on this trip we had a couple of small mag lites that we used to see some of the details. but mostly we hiked in the dark. its how we always travel. at this point we heard a couple of those note worthy taps that most of the BF people encounter all the time. we got that were being watched feeling. so we decided that we needed to leave. of course with all of the other experiences we've encountered in life up to that point we knew that we needed to follow our gut on this one, and get the hell out of dodge.  as we were leaving the area we kept getting small rocks and pebbles landing behind us, and then we started getting larger
stones being rolled down the hill at us. i guess we were`nt going down the face of the hill fast enough for who or what ever we had managed to invade of their space. as we got further down the hill fewer rocks were being propelled our direction. we had heard quite a bit of the taping noises, sort of like two rocks being clacked together. just as we were reaching the bottom of the hill my friend ran just a bit quicker to his car. so i had to pick it up to catch him. the moment i had reached the car, and got in the seat he took off.
 

Activities of Witness:   Just hanging out like kids and friends do. enjoying the scenery none of my friends ever talked about any. but they refused to go back there ever again.
 

Description of Creature:  From childhood.....   about 6.5 7 ft. maybe 3-4 ft wide long hairy fur like that of chewy from star wars. couldn't see facial features. body was muscular but thin not thick as described from other BF encounters. looked starved.

being followed.....  couldn't see nothing but dark small sillhouettes. nothing definitive..

last encounter......  several pairs of glowing red eyes

Other Notes:    From the first encounter i think that the BF (Hermit) was just visiting my home being i had visited its home. i told my mother but she dismissed it as my uncles playing pranks on me.

with this second encounter we were 17 yrs old. one of the things that we heard that night was some one knocking on something. probably a rock or large branch as there are no trees on the hills. we hadn't thought anything of it. thought maybe someone was working late on or in there house. not uncommon for our town. i feel after reading some of the treads on this site. that maybe we were being used as a training session for the young BF`s, if that's what they were.

now as far as this last occurrence neither of us have been back there since. part of the reason why is i don't think either of us really wanted to, and that they have since built houses on most of that hill, and it has turned into a tract.  it didn't take me long to get my friend to divulge what he'd seen to make him move faster. since in our experiences we have done a bit of the paranormal ghost hunting during our high school years.he said he'd seen several pairs of red glowing eyes looking down on us, and it had seemed that one of them was moving down the hill with us while others just sat. we didn't have very powerful lights with us so he couldn't get a good look at what ever it was.

Also small cats and dogs reported missing. in frequently though, and always blamed on coyotes. i've only ever seen three coyotes since living there as a youth.

i've been back to my mothers house quite a bit, and on some late nights have heard and others have heard some strange animal type calls or yells. that weren't any normal ones i've ever heard. we just always chock it up the "banshee" its the word we all use for a strange yell or noise. being that it sounds like a banshee that i've heard on tv before while watching a horror flick.

XXXXXs cave in the hills. (been so long since having been up there couldn't find it again.) had the tell tale signs of BF`s according to the other reports. allot of bones from dead animals mostly being domesticated type. and bedding albeit straw and some bush fragments. doesn't leave out the possibility for it being a BF`s norco is a horse town where alot of people have horses and use straw for their horses stalls. not to mention there is a housing tract that runs on the back side of a small hill where the wild terrain opens to the back of
their properties.

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.

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