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Man recounts being chased as a teen
The witness and a cousin stopped for lunch in a small clearing while scouting in dense mountain forest. They heard loud snapping and movement circling the clearing, then the cousin fired a handgun into the air. A loud low-to-high roar answered, and repeated yells pursued them as they ran downhill for about a mile without ever seeing the source.
Howl
The witness and a companion had heard the same vocalizations for months to years from deeper in the mountains, never this close.
Unidentified sound
The witness reports three other early-1970s encounters in the same general area involving inexplicable sounds and the same panic and neck-hair-raising sensation.
Unidentified sound near Grants Pass, Oregon
The witness reports hearing unspecified nighttime sounds and smelling a strong musky odor almost nightly.
Unidentified sound
Something struck the lookout tower at night, shaking it, leaving shove-off imprints in gravel toward dense brush.
Unidentified sound
The witness heard a ripping sound like tearing a dead tree and searched without finding the source.
Footsteps
Later that night at a camp about 15 miles away, the witness and companion heard something large and heavy circle the camp repeatedly without seeing it.
Wood knock
The witness reported often hearing wood-on-wood banging sounds from the forest.
Object throwing near Granite, Oregon
The witness was partway up the same hill when branches were thrown downhill toward him and low growls were heard from the forest.
Vocalization
On a different trip with four companions, the witness heard a strange high-pitched laughing sound that dropped into a low sobbing sound and stopped after a shot was fired.
Late night up-close encounter in the Umpqua Nat'l Forest near Toketee Falls
The witness and a companion were sleeping on the ground at camp while deer hunting after forgetting tent poles. During the night the witness felt fingers touching his beard and smelled a strong odor. After he sat up and shouted, something large moved away through brush on two legs making loud leaf-crunching noise. No tracks were found with a flashlight, and the witness later concluded it was a Bigfoot.
Whoop near Drain, Oregon
The whooping continued on subsequent nights for up to an hour at a time from the same mountainside spot.
Afternoon sighting in hills between Oakland and Sutherlin
The witness and a friend were hiking on logging roads when they paused for a restroom break and the witness walked a short way back down the road. The witness saw a big, hairy, dark figure coming down a steep embankment upright with heavy thumping steps and crashing brush. After the witness screamed the figure stopped and looked toward them, and both hikers ran away shouting about a bear.
Howl near Lookingglass/Roseburg, Oregon
On several later occasions the same witness heard strange howling vocalizations late at night near the family property but could not confirm the source.
Howl
Two nights later the witness, alone on a dirt road near a bridge, heard the low-to-high howl again, closer on repeat.
Scream
The previous morning the witness and companion heard a loud scream that began high-pitched and turned into a growl echoing through the canyon.
Whoop
While solo backpacking and half-asleep in tent at night, witness heard a very loud low-to-high whoop from across the lake.
Unidentified sound
Witness bowhunting alone felt watched, heard twig snap and loud branch break in dense thicket, then heard movement following for about an hour without seeing source.
Vocalization
The witness hears very unusual loud vocalizations in the distance a couple times a year.
Footsteps near Tumalo, Oregon
The witness was alone cutting poles when faint crackling from the south ridge grew louder and closer, prompting departure.