Second-hand Oregon Bigfoot #209

Fir Mtn, Hood River National Forest [name withheld], Fermin Osborne, J.C. [name withheld] / [name withheld] saw Bigfoot watching crane worked by three loggers. Next day all three saw it at same time; dft Bigfoot walked quickly away from them

July 1974 Hood River County, Oregon 3 witnesses

Account

Three loggers working with a crane were said to have been watched by a Bigfoot, with one logger seeing it first and all three seeing it together the next day as it walked quickly away. A relative of one of the loggers later wrote to dispute the account, saying that logger had only seen something moving through brush the size of a large dog or larger and describing another of the men as known for telling tall tales for fun.

Summary drafted by AI from the source report and checked by code before I publish it. The witness's own words remain with the publisher — read the original report .

What was reported

Every kind of observation in the account. Select one to find other encounters with it.

Sightings

Full-body sighting

Context & caveats

Possible hoax Possible misidentification

Facts & provenance

Each value names where it came from.

Date	July 1974 Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: Date
Place	Hood River County, Oregon Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: County
Map point	45.5118, -121.6560 (± 21 km) Geocoded Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · gazetteer:county · read with 30% confidence Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Hood River County (GEOID 41027); the report gives only the county
Account type	Second-hand Derived Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 75% confidence
Witnesses	3 Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
Figures reported	1 Derived Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 70% confidence
Witness was	working a crane in logging operation Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 85% confidence
Witness's word for it	Bigfoot Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
First published by	The Bigfoot Casebook Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #209 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: Source

Source timeline

Every record this entry is built from, earliest known first. Records are versioned and never edited in place.

Oregon Bigfoot report #209 Secondary

Published 2002-07-09 Retrieved 2026-09-29 Version 1 Hash 2f646954eb9c

Oregon Bigfoot - sightings database

The report refers to

“"In Search Of"”
Not in the Anomadex yet