Two Bigfoot stories surfaced in the same week of early July 2026, both through Coast to Coast AM’s weekly weird-news roundup.

In California, a grandmother was dropping off her grandson at his summer job at a camp in the Sierra National Forest, a 1.3-million-acre stretch of the Sierra Nevada northeast of Fresno, when she says she saw an eight-foot creature with reddish-brown hair and unusually long arms. She believes it may have been Bigfoot. She wasn’t named, and the camp, date and time weren’t given. The Sierra has a long run of Bigfoot reports, along with plenty of black bears, which in California often have brown or cinnamon coats.

In Argentina, a doctor came forward with a story a patient had told him: that the patient had hunted down and killed an Ucumar. The Ucumar, or Ucumari, is the Bigfoot of northwestern Argentina’s folklore, a big, hairy, man-like creature said to live in the forested slopes of Salta, Jujuy and Tucumán. Its name is close to a Quechua word for bear, and some researchers think the legend draws on the Andean spectacled bear, which lives in the same region.

Neither account came with a photo, a body, a location or a name. The Argentine story is also secondhand: what a doctor says a patient told him. Stories of a killed Bigfoot recur in folklore everywhere, and none has yet produced a specimen.