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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.
Scream
An earlier incident at Link Lake involving screams heard and tracks found.
Vocalization
Another curator reportedly heard a similar vocalization in western Washington and later imitated it for the investigator.
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.
Scream
A relative of the witness and another man heard a long drawn-out yell-like scream while elk hunting.
Scream
Other local residents reportedly also heard the screams.
Scream
The witness's mother heard loud guttural raspy screams near the house at night.
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.
Scream
A camp companion heard three very loud screams from a canyon near the camp.
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.
Scream
The witness reportedly heard unrecognized loud screeching and howling sounds on occasion during the months the family lived in the area.
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.
Footsteps
On another summer visit the witness and a cousin walking back from a bridge heard large bipedal steps following them from the treeline, stopping and starting with them.