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24 August 1969 Curry County, Oregon Class B #661

Campers hear terrifying vocalizations and see a huge dark form

Five boys were camping in a wilderness area when loud screams approached their camp late at night. Something circled the camp on two feet for about half an hour while wailing, as the group hid terrified in sleeping bags. As it left, two or three of them saw a huge hulking shape moving away in moonlight.

ScreamFootstepsSilhouette
1968 Josephine County, Oregon Class A #677

Huge creature almost hit by a truck

Two relatives were at home late at night when they heard someone going through items on the back porch. They looked out and saw a huge Bigfoot-like figure going through their belongings. One of them screamed and the creature ran off.

Partial sightingProperty disturbance
Summer 1968 Estacata, Hood River County, Oregon Class B #5816

Nighttime encounter by a worker at a logging site

In summer 1968 the witness was working alone at night installing radio equipment on a yarder at a remote logging landing in Oregon. After dark he felt watched and twice saw bright eyes, the second time discerning a large wide black shape about 20 feet away, accompanied by a repulsive odor. He left the site for the night and returned at daylight, finding no footprints. The next morning a crew member showed him heavy barrels that had been moved, which the witness associated with the animal.

Partial sightingEyeshineOdor
1963–2002 Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Class B #7785

Family in small boat hears animal retreating and finds prints

In 1963 the witness hiked with family members to Teddy Lakes to fish. While rowing around an island they heard splashing and then found a line of very large, deep, human-like footprints in shallow mud where an animal had exited the water. Neither the witness, then a youth experienced with tracks, nor his expert-tracker grandfather could identify the maker, and the trail was lost in forest litter.

TracksMovement only
July 1956 Lake Lemolo, Douglas County, Oregon Class A #12021

Boy encounters animal near Lemolo Lake

When the witness was a child of about eight, he was walking home from school on a lakeside trail in the Oregon Cascades on a clear summer afternoon. He reportedly saw a large fur-covered creature crouched drinking at the water's edge about 150 to 200 feet away. The creature then stood upright and stared at him, and he ran back up the trail.

Full-body sighting
1949–1950 Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/10/25/sc-ep57-missing-people-and-bigfoot-encounters

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon (1949)

The driver was going home alone on a cold rainy night and caught a brief glimpse in the headlights of a very large hairy figure standing in bushes off the road. Something long with hanging white hair appeared to be tucked under its arm. Days later the driver learned an elderly neighbor who kept goats had disappeared and a separate violent death had occurred nearby.

Partial sighting
Fall 1949 Fairview, Coos County, Oregon Class A #8745

One audible and two visual, early evening encounters by a coastal witness near the North Fork of the Coquille River

When the witness was a child living in a remote wooded valley, pounding on wood drew a sibling indoors and the family went outside to listen. From the driveway they heard loud guttural roaring together with continued pounding for several minutes on a clear calm evening. The sounds eventually stopped and the family went back inside, leaving the witness frightened.

GrowlWood knock
Date unknown Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/02/01/sc-ep76-open-phone-lines-and-your-thoughts-1

Full-body sighting in Oregon

The caller and her husband were camping off logging roads near the Oregon coast, with friends in a tent by the river and the couple sleeping in the truck. She felt stared at and terrified and blocked the windows, then her husband hurried into the truck saying he had seen a whitish-gray thing about four feet high and five feet long moving on all fours as if gliding. Both remained scared in the truck without investigating.

Full-body sightingMovement onlyPossible misidentification
summertime Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2018/04/14/sc-ep422-this-haunts-me-to-this-day

Footsteps in Oregon

The witness and a tent-mate camped far from roads to be ready for an early volunteer shift. The tent-mate stayed awake most of the night hearing something walking around the woods that seemed to approach the tent, but headlamp checks showed nothing. In the morning both saw a nearby tree, about 50 to 75 feet from the tent, that had been pushed over during the night.

FootstepsTree break
real early spring Dallas, Oregon #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/12/24/sc-ep284-the-christmas-show

Odor near Dallas, Oregon

The witness describes multiple strange events at her rural home while alone, including a strong sulfur sewage odor, shuffling sounds, a blocked bathroom window, disturbed trash, broken lights, a ringing doorbell with no one there, and something hitting the house. She also often felt watched from the tree line.

OdorFootstepsProperty disturbanceDoor or window contact
over 30 years ago when 19, 20-ish Oregon #f6d857df-e3db-48c7-adaf-4d0fa463d47c

Wood knock in Oregon

The witness was on a family nostalgia trip in the Mount Hood forest and camped unprepared by the road. After a few hours she woke to very loud wood-on-wood impacts coming from multiple directions every minute or two. No people, vehicles, lights or voices were detected, and companions slept through it.

Wood knock
August, maybe eight years ago Oregon #da9eb7c7-a46e-450b-b86d-351581432b91

Wood knock in Oregon

Two companions camping with minimal supplies at a remote lake heard faint knocking, cracking, and chatter-like voices in the evening, followed by a whoop, with elk bugles also audible. At the time they reasoned it might be other people, but years later after hearing similar sounds described as associated with large hairy beings, one concluded it may have been such beings.

Wood knockChatterWhoop
earlier in the year during archery elk season, about a month and a half before late October Oregon #d23b8fd9-2d77-4838-941e-9152f2f04fae

Tracks in Oregon

Earlier in the same season the group was camped overnight in a basin while elk hunting. Something circled the camp at night and frightened guard dogs that normally showed no fear. The next day the men followed large barefoot tracks with very long strides and a damaged toe from behind the camp to a canyon.

TracksFootstepsUnidentified sound
last May Oregon #9de1e7c1-7793-4ab5-9cae-9c7d1b2bc4cf

Odor in Oregon

The guest and three companions camped several days in remote central Oregon to look into Bigfoot. They smelled a skunky BO odor, felt something brush tents, found large and human-sized barefoot prints, heard human-like grunts, found torn branches and an uprooted tree, had apples taken from high up with sticker skin peeled, and saw a bulky dark figure at the treeline captured as a blurry night-vision still. They left early due to bad weather.

OdorTracksGrowlTree breakWood knock +3
after about a month and a half of me living out there Oregon #dddbdef1-8afa-40b3-826e-6bf1c59d45e3

Sasquatch sighting in Oregon

The witness was living alone in a trailer while clearing land for a cabin. Over several nights loud banging on a metal trailer woke him, culminating in screams that drew him toward a large excavation. He confronted two tall hairy figures and a smaller one trapped in the pit, with another large figure flanking him. After a tense standoff the group retrieved the small one and withdrew to the treeline, and the witness left the property at sunrise.

Full-body sightingScreamGrowlUnidentified sound
just a couple weeks after my first sighting, about 4:30 in the morning Oregon #beb7de0d-b82b-4357-8e07-0ca6cbffbf25

Vocalization in Oregon

A couple weeks after the road sighting, the driver met another driver at a secluded wooded parking lot around 4:30 in the morning. Both heard what sounded like a muffled conversation between at least two, plus whistles, which stopped when approached. Loud stomping movements then circled in the woods and grew louder until both left in their trucks.

VocalizationWhistleFootsteps
Pretty recent, really, over a two-week period Oregon #beb7de0d-b82b-4357-8e07-0ca6cbffbf25

Howl in Oregon

Over about two weeks of night deliveries, the driver heard howls and unexplained slaps on the box truck in the same area. One morning the headlights lit a tall slender hair-covered humanoid standing in the road. Noting its overlong arms and matted hair, the driver kept going as it stepped into lava rock terrain, then stopped to look but found nothing.

HowlVehicle contactFull-body sighting
the following fall John Day, Oregon #efa1c101-ce37-4eb0-b029-03279fd8c145

Footsteps near John Day, Oregon

The following fall archery opener, five hunters camped at the same site and the guest shot a buck in hot weather, butchering it and hanging the inedible carcass across the creek about nine feet up. After 10 p.m. they heard heavy footfalls and feeding grunts, fired guns to scare the animal, found the carcass pulled down, rehung it higher twice with the same result, then listened as it stripped rib meat requiring great grip strength. One companion left for Alaska afterward and the guest never returned to the area.

FootstepsGrowlProperty disturbance
the following spring John Day, Oregon #efa1c101-ce37-4eb0-b029-03279fd8c145

Sasquatch sighting near John Day, Oregon

The following spring the guest returned to the same camp with a hunting partner and girlfriend for a weekend camp. After dinner visitors left, the partner fired a revolver at a large bipedal animal that jumped from the creek bed, then all three watched it run parallel across a sparsely timbered hillside in spotlight, noting reflective eyes and remarkable speed while keeping its gaze on them. The girlfriend reported it whistled at her, and next morning they found a single partial footprint in hard clay.

Full-body sightingEyeshineWhistleTracks
first part of May, about eight years ago Sweet Home, Oregon #ebc3b6f0-083a-405b-9698-424e91654384

Footsteps near Sweet Home, Oregon

The witness was scouting remote mountain roads for fishing access when he found a newly placed stacked rock pile blocking the road. After stopping to inspect it, he heard something charge down the steep slope toward him and stop when he drew his pistol, then parallel him back to his vehicle unseen. He returned later with a hunting partner and heard coordinated whoops from multiple positions, and a few days later with a larger group found extensive tree damage, possible structures, and three sizes of bare human-like tracks.

FootstepsWhoopTracksTree breakStructure or nest +1