A listener writes “First, I wanted to share something my son and I saw recently. This just happened on Saturday, March 14th. We were driving westbound through the Feather River Canyon on our way to Chico for a trading card show our first one together, and we were both really excited. I’ve done antique shows before, so I’m familiar with the whole process setting up, selling, and bartering but this was his first experience. As we drove, we were going over what to do, what to say, and just generally planning things out.
As we passed the turnoff for a small town called Twain, the road dipped downhill and then leveled out. We were going about 65 mph when we noticed something strange a dark object floating toward us on the opposite side of the road. What stood out immediately was that it wasn’t drifting randomly like something caught in the wind. It was moving with purpose, in a straight line.
After we passed it, I asked my son, “What was that?” He looked confused and hesitantly said, “A balloon…?” We started talking it through, but it didn’t add up. If it were a balloon, it should have been moving erratically, not traveling steadily about four feet off the ground. Then, after we went by, it stopped, crossed the road, and moved up the hillside until it disappeared around a bend.
I keep trying to rationalize it telling myself it must have been a balloon caught in some kind of air current but it just didn’t behave like one. The whole thing felt strange and hard to explain. If I had been alone, I probably would’ve doubted myself even more, but my son saw it too. I’ve always been open minded about unexplained things, but this really threw me off.
As for my Sasquatch encounter, it was a drive by sighting with a twist. This happened along Highway 70, heading west just past the small town of Cromberg. The road there goes up and down, with a series of bends, before continuing toward Quincy, where I live. Along one stretch, there’s a dirt frontage road that seems to run alongside the highway likely for power line access. It goes up over a hill, dips below the main road, and then climbs again.
That’s where I saw it.
At first glance, I thought it was a large stump sitting in the middle of that access road. But as I got closer, I realized it had hair. My immediate thought was that it must be a bear like most people would assume. But then it hit me: bears have fur, not long, hair like strands like what I was seeing. This was different. The hair looked too long, and the figure itself was massive. It was squatting there, and as I approached, the distance closed from about 100 yards to maybe 50 before I passed it and lost sight of it.
I turned around to go back, but by the time I returned, it was gone.”
Charles R
The old stump squatch trick. In the area you live, and you may know this, is prime Bigfoot Country. I did not know California had a town named for Mark Twain. One would think it would be in Calaveras County to the south, from the book he wrote in the 1860s about a Celebrated Jumping Frog.