During the 1960’s there was a rash of Bigfoot sightings in the region of Northern California near Oroville. The sightings were near Oroville Reservoir and in the Butte County area. This region of Northern California can be very dry during summer months but the reservoir offers an unlimited water supply for area mammals. NABS has investigated this area intensely with the intent of understanding why the bipeds were in the area and why there was a blimp of sightings at this point in history. It is an unusual circumstance that there have been huge forest fires in this are in the last two summers that would’ve greatly reduced any opportunities to view the bipeds.
It should be noted that the region where this report was taken is in the same region where ISHI was discovered in the early 1900’s. Read the report carefully and understand that communication flow in the 1960’s was not as it is today, specifics about sightings were not so readily available thus the information in this report reflects a factual representation of what the witness observed.
Butte County Sheriff's office
This is the original report from 1969 filed by Deputy Curtis.
On 7/12/69 Deputy Hoke wrote a followup report to Deputy Jackson. There are several aspects to these reports that NABS finds very interesting. The scream that the witness heard the night before the sighting, the scream of what they believed to be a woman is quite consistant with reports from others throughout the United States. The portion of the report that addresses the witness burning rabbit entrals is also quite consistant with witnesses describing Bigfoot as being quite interested in rabbits. There are many documented cases where rabbits are taken from their locked cages, a location where whatever took the rabbits must've had fingers to work the lock. The witnesses is an individual that is accustomed to the outdoor environment and was positive that what he obsevred WAS NOT a bear.
NABS has never seen this report anywhere and we believe that we are the first group to have discovered this investigation by a California Sheriff’s Department.
NABS would like to graciously thank Sheriff Perry Reniff from Butte County for his cooperation in digging through his archives and finding this report, it is greatly appreciated.