California Resident's Repeat Bigfoot Encounters and Distinctive Trackway Findings

A fascinating account of a possible Bigfoot encounter has been shared on the YouTube channel, Linda Eastburn. The video, titled "Bigfoot the Tribe," features a firsthand account from a man named Ron, who grew up in Central California and has had a lifelong interest in the outdoors. Ron's interest in Bigfoot was sparked at a young age when his father mentioned a college history class that touched on the subject. According to his father, a Bigfoot was shot and captured in what is now King's Canyon National Park, and was brought down to the town of Iselia, where it lived for a few days before dying. Years later, in 1995, Ron had his own encounter while on a mountain bike ride with friends in the High Country Sierras. They came across a fresh trackway running down the four-wheel drive trail they were on, and Ron heard something moving through the brush off the side of the road. He describes the track as a classic Bigfoot print, about 14 inches long, and saw it cross the road and continue into a ravine. Despite these experiences, Ron remained skeptical about the existence of Bigfoot until 2018, when he had several encounters over the course of the spring and summer. These encounters, combined with his interest in anthropology and history, led him to speak with a Miwok tribal elder in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. The elder told him that the central California Native Americans had stories of a being they called "y Yale y," a giant with human attributes. Ron's