Tribal Bigfoot – Comments on Chapter Six: “Amador County”

By Linda Jo Martin On September 19, 2009 · 4 Comments

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Re: Chapter Six of Tribal Bigfoot, “Amador County”:

Amador County is one of my favorite counties in California, and if I was to relocate from Happy Camp that is one county I’d be interested in moving to, so I was surprised to read in Tribal Bigfoot that this county has no Bigfoot sightings recorded in online databases. There certainly is enough forest. If you travel through the mountains there, you might get that spooky feeling that Bigfoot could very well be around. I’ve been there and remember that feeling well!

After David Paulides created the North American Bigfoot Search website, 24-year-old Daniel Walker emailed him about his Bigfoot sighting in Amador County. Daniel got a good look at a Bigfoot at the intersection of Hale Road and Fiddletown Road in August 2007. Perhaps now Amador County can invest in one of those yellow “Bigfoot Crossing” signs for the first time. County residents need to keep their eyes open. Something might be lurking behind the trees!

From this map we can see there’s plenty of forested area in Amador County:

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I love the gold rush town of Jackson there in the Sierra Nevada foothills… but further uphill there’s forest, a small but gorgeous town called Volcano, and Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park — one of my favorite of the California State Historic Parks, and I’ve been to quite a few. There’s no doubt that there are LOTS of Bigfooted Ones living in the forest in that region, and either the 38,471 residents of this 593 square mile county haven’t seen one, or they have kept their sightings hush-hush.

In 1996 I toured the Mother Lode with my children, then ages 6 and 7. We drove on scenic Highway 49 from Tuolumne City to Downieville. Jackson in Amador County was on our route. It is a slightly modernized gold rush town, and a great place to spend time. A few years later we went back to Jackson, this time to visit Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park where we took a hike on a trail nearby that taught us a lot about the local herbs and wild natural foods. There’s more there than an untrained eye would imagine! The park includes an impressive ceremonial roundhouse and museum, and Mi’wuk Indian village.

This is a great place for a vacation – and with a few walks in the woods you might be first to put your Amador Bigfoot sighting into one of the online sighting databases. While you’re there, you could check out one of the outdoor amphitheater performances of the Volcano Theater Company.

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4 Responses to Tribal Bigfoot – Comments on Chapter Six: “Amador County”

Bruce Dixon says:

December 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm

We saw it (or one) too in the same general area!

As we stopped and almost hit it with our SUV just below Hale on Shake Ridge. 3 of us saw it close no more than 25 ft or so in our headlights. It moved very quickly without running up an embankment covered with pine trees. Estimated height was 7 ft or so. Remarkable, looked like a large Chimp but more long proportioned, not barrel chested (maybe a female?).

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Bruce Dixon says:

December 13, 2009 at 2:32 pm

My wife (co-witness) corrected me on the distance. It was maybe 10 FT in distance. We really got a GOOD look at this thing closely and clearly so when the Hwy Patrol suggested we perhaps saw a BEAR I almost laughed. BTW, the date we saw it was on Dec 4th 2009, 10pm approx. just a day before a big change in weather for the worse with freezing conditions. That is perhaps IMHO why the creature was willing to risk being seen in order to get to some safe haven it knows in the area. And also it looks amazingly like many of the videos I’ve seen (ie. height, black in color. It had long fur almost as long as an orangutan, and it was almost shiney black in our high beams). I am a skeptical person and never really had a strong opinion one way or another to the bigfoot legend. BTW, the way this creature looked and moved I just don’t think a man in a suit would be able to pull it off. And now that I know another person has seen one in the same area within recent yrs, I must count myself among the believers. As a resident of Volcano, my eyes will always be peeled for glimpses of sasquatches as I drive down the road at night.

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paula ward says:

February 2, 2010 at 9:36 am

the week before memorial weekend 2008,my family and i went to cat creek area in Amador county . off of hwy. 88 just past Hams station.We crossed Stanilaus river on cat creek rd. About two miles in we turned onto a logging rd. We stopped and went walking around. We smelled a bad odor where some standing water was . We also noticed a twisted branch nothing a bear could do.Then i heard some noises up the cliff area , so i got my binoculars out to look ,not 25 ft. away from me between two huge pine trees i saw a massive copper colored standing bi-pedal being in front of me. I know it wasn’t a bear. I grabbed my then seven year old and ran to the car .I told my husband and two other kids to hurry and get in the car and go. We were all scared and caught off guard.

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Norman Morgan says:

November 24, 2010 at 10:57 am

Glad to see someone else saw one in the same area. Daniel Walker is my nephew and he was on his way to my house a mile further down the road when he came around the corner and saw this thing crossing the road. He’s a city kid and it really freaked him out. He wouldn’t house sit overnight for us after that. The next morning he and I went to that spot and looked around, nothing notable really. One interesting thing though, as it started across the road from south to north, it walked in front of a road sign and the top of it’s head was as tall as the middle of the sign, so I had a referance to how tall it was. It measured 7-1/2 feet! Not a bear, or a man in a fur coat as Animal Control suggested.

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