Third-hand Oregon Bigfoot #127

Goble Track and hair found, berry bushes stripped

1980 Hwy 30, Columbia County, Oregon

Account

According to an informant citing a 1980 newspaper report, a dark-headed creature left a heel-mark in a salmonberry patch south of Goble, Oregon, where many bushes had been stripped of berries. Ten-inch coarse light-brown hair was collected from a barbed wire fence the creature reportedly walked over.

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What was reported

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Physical traces

Described appearance

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Hair colour src
light brown
Hair length src
Ten inch long
Other features src
dark headed

Facts & provenance

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Date
1980
Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: Date
Place
Hwy 30, Columbia County, Oregon
Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled fields: County, Nearest Town, Nearest Road, Location
Map point
46.0159, -122.8754 (± 15 km)
Geocoded Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · gnis:1136322 · read with 40% confidence
Towns named in the place text ('Goble'; USGS GNIS populated place 'Goble', Columbia)
Account type
Third-hand
Derived Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 70% confidence
Figures reported
1
Derived Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section · read with 75% confidence
Witness's word for it
The dark headed creature
Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
First published by
The Track Record #49
Stated Oregon Bigfoot report #127 · Oregon Bigfoot report, labelled field: Source

Evidence & investigation

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

Tracks

heel-mark left in salmonberry patch

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
Hair

ten inch long light brown hair collected from barbed wire fence, described as coarse like fish line

Measurements: Ten inch long

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section
Other

many bushes stripped of berries in salmonberry patch

Oregon Bigfoot report, “Description” section

Source timeline

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