Castle Lake, California 1998

I am an employee for the State of California, me, my wife, twin daughters Alice and Avery and our parents were sitting in camp chairs tail-gating at the end of Castle Lake Road discussing the tamales the ladies had prepared for picnic supper. The area is Shasta National Forest. It was nearing sundown, I remember my father-in-law pumping up his Coleman lantern and setting up a card table to set the tamales on.

There was approximately a half-dozen other cars parked on either side of the road's apron. We looked up when we heard people from the other cars yelling, "hey, hey, hey." Everyone turned to look, even my girls ran out to see. I'm telling you there was this enormous man-thing that nonchalantly strolled out onto the road to the yellow line!!!! I kid you not!! This thing was like a giant man, his upper body very muscular with very little hair but from the waist down he had thick black flowing hair down to his feet like he was wearing hairy leather chaps or something. He stood again taller than a GMC truck with lifts that was park about 50 feet from us on the right side as you drive out.

The men in the car next to us had flashlights so my father and I followed them down the road where this thing was walking. I am telling you again, this thing walked like a zombie; there was no recognition that any of us were there! Get this, he was real and too tall to be some fool in a suit; I never met a man that big, no way!!

It made no effort to go back into the trees on the right side of the road; the left side that had thick brush and a few pines. People were screaming at it, hooting and it was like deaf man, deaf, it kept walking. The ladies were all runing for the cars. By the time we walked on down around the curve in the road, two men were walking back to their cars, stopped and said the 'thing' went off into a dirt turnout and into the trees. No way any of us wanted to follow.

This one guy, Jim something or another told us it was a Bigfoot sure as hell and he figured its height at 8-feet maybe weighed roughly 5-600lbs. It never made a sound; it never looked scared and it never looked at the people or the cars. I mean like this was weird zombie shit like we were hallucinating.

That's the story, take it or leave it.
Mike S.
Sacto, CA