First-hand Oregon Bigfoot #4749

Group camping with horses finds tracks, makes castings - PHOTOS

24 August 2009 pre dawn dark hours Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon 6 witnesses

Account

A group camping with horses heard wood knocks by the campfire, then after midnight was awakened by agitated horses, sounds of the horse corral being moved and loud banging on a camper. One person reported a musky odor and sounds of branches breaking as something moved up the mountainside. The next morning the group found large human-like tracks around the camper and campsite, which they photographed and cast.

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What was reported

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Sounds

Wood knock

Physical traces

Tracks

Interaction

Vehicle contact Property disturbance

Other senses

Odor Movement only

Context & caveats

Animal behaviour

Facts & provenance

Each value names where it came from.

Date	24 August 2009 Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: Date
Time of day	pre dawn dark hours Derived Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 80% confidence
Place	Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled fields: County, Nearest Town, Nearest Road, Location
Map point	44.0567, -121.3080 (± 15 km) Geocoded Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · gazetteer:place · read with 50% confidence Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Bend city (GEOID 4105800), matched from nearest town 'Bend'
Account type	First-hand Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
Witnesses	6 Derived Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 70% confidence
Witness was	horse camping Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
Witness's word for it	whatever it was Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
Conditions	hot summer Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: Conditions

Evidence & investigation

What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.

Tracks

15-inch human-looking foot tracks around camper and campsite

Measurements: 15-inch

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section

Cast

casts made of two of the tracks

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section

Photograph

photos taken of the tracks and then of the castings

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section

Follow-up

A researcher and a companion came out, interviewed the group and photographed the castings.

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section

Source timeline

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Oregon Bigfoot report #4749 Primary

Published 2009-08-28 Retrieved 2026-09-29 Version 1 Hash 13b97525b557

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The report refers to

“very recent sighting at elk lake”
Not in the Anomadex yet