DATE:              August 7, 1993

TIME:               Early morning hours 2:00 am to 4:00 am

LOCATION:     Strawberry, California, Toluomne County

TERRAIN:        National Forrest
 

OBSERVED:
My family and I were staying at the lower camp ground at
Pinecrest lake area. Meadow Lake I think it was called.
We had been staying there for several weeks. During that
season there had been an illness that had killed a large
part of the deer population. They would be found by hikers
laying in the woods in the Stanislaus Canyon area above
Strawberry.   Personally, we never saw any dead deer.
The local store in Strawberry has always been a reporting
location for Bigfoot sightings in the area and they keep a
running count and board of the recent sightings.
This is what we encountered while camping at the camp ground.
 

The summer rush of campers was at an end, but we were staying on until we found a rental home in the area to live in. While at the camp ground on the night mentioned above, we were awakened by noise that at first I attributed to cars
moving down the high way 108 and the tires screeching around the curves.
The timing between the sounds was intermitent like the curves would be laid
out on the highway. The only problem we had with this sound was
that it neither increased or decreased in volumne and no engine sounds.
We continued to listen and thought maybe it could be deer calling or maybe
some elk or something of that nature. The screams continued and occassionaly
sounded like more than one location. We then began to wonder what could make a scream like this and what lungs they must have as we both tried to imitate the time of a total scream. This was never something we could do as the screams we heard were longer than the two of us put together releasing the air in our lungs in a roaring fashion. I would estimate 15 - 20 seconds or more of one continuous release.

WE related it to the song of a whale. This lasted well over 2 hours and we finally drifted off to sleep. Several days later we went into the store at Strawberry and was interested if anyone else had heard the sounds. NO one else had reported any sounds, but, a couple of hikers had reported seeing a large creature carrying 2 large deer one over each shoulder crossing a small clearing in the Stanislaus River area. Thats when we attributed the sounds we heard to crys of sorrow from the bigfoot at their concern for the dead deer that riddled the area. This, in my opinion, would relate to the health reasons for the local bigfoot, as I don't think they would eat the dead carcasses. Cleanup duty!
 

Description of Creature:  Large creature carrying two large deer, one over each shoulder

Activities of Witness: Witnesses were sleeping in a tent.

Other Notes:  I recently watched a program about the bigfoot sightings and during the
program they mentioned that the most sightings have taken place
upon the ridges that run through mountain ranges. Well, the point of this
hearing took place on the narrowist point from a ridge that runs east and west
between the river canyons that I mention above. This makes me think that the
sounds must have been bigfoot. I have heard other sounds recorded by
people from bigfoot.  Only one comes to mind and that is the gentleman that
sets out the recording devices and returns to pick up the sound recordings.
At this time I can't think of his name but he is on the internet.
There is some more history that while living in California in Tuolomne county and
Stanislaus county for more than 40 years, that I have heard an Indian legend
of the Tuolomnmites that reside there in the old mines. These beings are much
smaller and more aggressive than the bigfoot.
When I was very young my older brother had returned from a night out in the country
around Nights Ferry area, which at the time was sparsly populated.
He came in and woke the whole house with excitement going on about what he and his
freinds had seen crossing a lonely stretch of road in that area. BIGFOOT!!!
This occured in the mid 60s. There was also many strange lights that have been
seen in this same area. He had also recalled  at another time of some type of militaristic
action they had come upon once. The men were dressed in blue uniform type clothing and carrying
weapons. When they approached them, the uniformed men informed them that the area was restricted and they must leave immeadiately. They did!
This too happened in the 60s.
 

Other Other Notes:  I now live in Montana and do not know if others have had any experiences since.