Foothills shadowed in paranormal phenomena

It was a moonless, silent night near Spicer Reservoir. Vision only reached a few feet into the forest before it was shrouded in darkness. No frogs were croaking. No campers were murmuring. It was the kind of quiet where your ears buzz to fill the silence. And then four speakers, powered by a 500-watt amplifier, blasted a mix between an elephant’s trumpeting roar and an ape’s shrill cry through the forest. The terrifying blast echoed off mountainsides and through the Stanislaus River canyon. And then complete silence, again, as Bob Strain waited for a return call. Strain, of Jamestown, was calling for Bigfoot. Tuolumne County [California] ranks third in the nation in terms of Bigfoot encounters: Thirty-three have been reported, examined and filed away. Calaveras County has had eight reports. Read Article

By James Damschroder