Witness heard underbrush snapping and small trees crashing to the ground
Account
The witness was alone at a lakeside camp at night when a loud road-blasting shot triggered a rockslide. Right afterward the witness heard a large animal crashing through brush and then prolonged howling and screaming from across the lake for about half an hour. Friends arrived later and heard nothing further that night.
What was reported
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Facts & provenance
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| Date |
10 September 1996
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
night, about 10:30 p.m.
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| Place |
Deschutes County, Oregon
Stated
BFRO report #665
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
44.3936, -121.7809 (± 5 km)
USGS GNIS lake 'Cache Lake', Jefferson, matched from place name 'Cache Lake'
Conflicting value43.9151, -121.2256 (± 50 km)
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Witness was |
camping alone and tending a campfire while waiting for friends
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| Witness's word for it |
a very large animal
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
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Friends reported ground covered with large five-toed tracks with no claw marks, sunk deeper than their own tracks.
Measurements: about 19" long 10" wide; twice as deep as finders' tracks
Several trees had tops broken off at about ten feet with tops stuck into ground by stumps.
Measurements: about the ten foot line
Source timeline
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BFRO report #665 Primary