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Vocalization near Dufur, Oregon
In October 2008 the witness and a relative heard repeated strange vocalizations through the night at camp until leaving for town early morning.
Boy scout hears repeated screams
As a young scout camping overnight in a tent away from the main camp, the witness lay awake while his tent mate slept. He heard repeated loud vocalizations from a distance that started low, rose higher with a warbling quality, then faded. The sounds continued for about an hour and at times seemed to get closer, while he remained motionless and silent in his sleeping bag.
Footsteps near Pendleton, Oregon
The witness had previously heard someone walking around the house in the early morning hours.
Scream
The same witness heard the same loud vocalizations again a couple weeks later from the same field offset by several hundred yards for about half an hour.
Wood knock near Grande Rhonde, Oregon
The witness returned at night to cast impressions and take photos and exchanged knocking sounds with an unseen source for 20 minutes.
Scream
Two campers heard repeated long loud screams from across a stream at night that stopped after horn honking and a warning shot.
Wood knock
The witness reports hearing repeated loud knocks from multiple locations for about an hour during rain while camped farther up the road.
Howl
The deputy reports hearing an unidentified howling noise at night for years near his home.
Scream
While camping in his tent at night near Detroit Lake, the witness heard a loud several-second scream from about a mile away.
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.
Odor
About a mile downstream later that morning the witness heard a commotion in a gravel bank, smelled an intense foul odor, and threw rocks without anything flushing.
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.