{"id":4788,"date":"2026-07-07T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/its-a-very-squatchy-area-grandmother-reports-very-credible-bigfoot-sighting-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:00:35","slug":"its-a-very-squatchy-area-grandmother-reports-very-credible-bigfoot-sighting-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/its-a-very-squatchy-area-grandmother-reports-very-credible-bigfoot-sighting-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"'It's a very squatchy area': Grandmother reports 'very credible' Bigfoot sighting in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026-07-07 11:00:33<\/b>
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A “very credible” Bigfoot sighting has been reported by a grandmother in California.

\nLinda Dixon-Smith, 73, spotted an eight-foot tall beast covered in “brownish red hair” lurking in a clearing in the middle of the day as she was driving her grandson to his Boy Scouts Camp in Fresno County, California on June 28 revealing the creature had a “small head” and arms that stretched down past its knees.

\nThe sighting was reported to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), which described the claim as a “credible daylight sighting”.

\nLinda told the organisation: “[I was] taking my grandson to his summer job at BSA [Boy Scouts of America] Camp …

\n“I looked over at my grandson. My eyes carried further and I saw a figure standing in the field. It was facing south. [It had] brownish red hair that I could plainly see skin through it.

\n“Small head like right on its shoulders. Long arms past knees. I couldn’t see its face or front of body. It was standing in grass so I couldn’t see feet.

\nIt didn’t move. Stood frozen as I very slowly drove past.”

\nShe added: “I’m reporting this today because I went back and took a good look, making sure I didn’t see a stump or something. Nope. 100 per cent I saw what I saw.”

\nLinda told the organisation the sighting occurred around 11am on a clear summer day in a forested area which had a clearing for power lines.

\nInvestigator Matthew Moneymaker conducted a follow-up interview with Linda and published his findings in a report posted on the organisation’s wesbite.

\nHe stated: “I spoke with witness Linda Dixon-Smith. She is a very credible witness …

\n“Her twenty-something grandson works at Camp Chawanakee now. She was driving him to work at that Boy Scouts (BSA) camp when she had the sighting …

\n“She was driving very slow because the speed limit is15 miles per hour there. She looked to the right out the window and got a very good look at the sasquatch. She only saw the right side of it as it was facing south toward Dinkey Creek Road.

\n“The sasquatch had reddish fur that was thin enough to show the skin under the fur. The skin was color was slightly lighter than the color of buckskin.

\n“It was standing in grass that came halfway up to its knees. She estimates the height may have been around eight feet tall.”

\nMoneymaker added there have been other sightings in the Shaver Lake area and he’s convinced Linda’s sighting was genuine, stating: “About 10 years ago I looked around in the woods at one of those locations that was only about 350 yards away from the place that Linda had her sighting a few days ago.

\n“That is why I am so sure she saw a sasquatch there … The forests around Shaver Lake have been one of the bigfoot sighting hotspots for the California Sierra mountains for many years …

\n“More than 10 years ago I was personally approached by a local sheriff deputy who told me about his Class A daylight sighting near there. He couldn’t go on camera to tell his story, but it was a good one. It is a very, very squatchy area.”
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