Rancher finds a large track while looking around outside at 1:00 am to see what's disturbing his horses
Account
Around 2 a.m. on a fall night in 1978, the witness and a relative went to the corral to check on panicked horses, suspecting a bear. They heard something crashing away into brush and found a corral-post tree snapped over with large human-like footprints around its base. They concluded the prints were not from a bear and later wiped them out while telling other family members it was a bear.
What was reported
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Described appearance
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- Feet src
- very large and very human-like with five toe prints
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
Fall 1978
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
about 2 a.m.
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| Place |
Estacada, Clackamas County, Oregon
Stated
BFRO report #656
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details
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| Map point |
45.2982, -122.3324 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Estacada city (GEOID 4123800), matched from nearest town 'Estacada'
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Witness was |
checking on agitated horses at corral at night
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
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large human-like footprints with five toe prints around base of tree, deeply implanted at end of slip marks, later wiped out
Measurements: slip marks about 8 to 10 inches long
corral post tree snapped and bent over
Measurements: 7 inch diameter
Source timeline
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BFRO report #656 Primary